Just discovered One Day, One Job (and its sister site, One Day, One Internship) via Facebook (thanks, Alison!). Every day, the site features one firm on its home page (see the archive). Their 60-second promo (elevator speech!):
One Day, One Job is the insider’s guide to unique and exciting entry-level job and career opportunities for recent college graduates. Immerse yourself in our employer profiles and discover how you can become a smarter job searcher.
Check it out!
We were talking about the importance of the “little orange icon” in class last night, so I decided to play around with the “text boxes” in the WordPress widget barn. Feed Icons is a great place to download the RSS icon, and they provide code snippets as well. Enjoy!
Marketing exec Chris Winfield (Let’s Get Social @ SearchEngineLand) explains how Twitter can help marketers … and he did his research by conducting a Twitter poll.
I, on the other hand, wrote this post after commenting on Chris’ column! In the process, I learned a little about Sphinn (not much, need to dig some more).
Like polls on LinkedIn (or any other social media site), the odds of getting responses increase with the size of your social network. However, there are ways that you can increase the probability of a reply. You can add the hashtag #poll or #twitterpoll to a post; the hash groups tweets, makes them easy for people to find. Or you can turn to an external aide; for example, PollDaddy has a Twitter poll feature.
More good stuff if you’re still trying to figure out how to use Twitter: Paul Bradshaw just wrote a post about how journalists are using (can use) Twitter. Of course, as I wrote earlier this month, I’m working on Twitter genres (another way to analyze how people are using the tool).
WiredPen really isn’t All Twitter, All The Time, although it might feel like it lately! I just discovered this great little tribute to Twitter at ShinyRed … and of course, I found Shiny Red via Twitter.
I love Twitter for its serendipity. I lurked for a long time before I started posting … erh, tweeting! I’m currently archiving each day’s tweets for a little content analysis in a month or so.
See my post on Twitter genres (looking for input!) as well as my Twitter resources page (a work in progress: next how-to is how to have Twitter update your Facebook status).
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In prep’ing for digital journalism workshops for our UW undergrads, I discovered that the Seattle PI has opened up at least some editorial board meetings to the public via “podcasts.” (I challenge you to try to find the podcast archive/description via the masthead links, however.)
The NY Times Caucus blog reported Saturday that a Friday afternoon Indianapolis Star editorial board meeting with presidential candidate Barack Obama was “live streamed in real time.” (The blog link to the webcast is now broken — poor planning on the Indianapolis Star’s part and a lead-in to the “tech incompetence” portion of this post. See updates: no some editorial transparency in the archived clips.)
I question the merits of a live video stream: mid-afternoon on a Friday while most folks are at work? I like the PI’s simplicity — an mp3 of the session, with give-and-take. Video might be nice — doubtful, as there is no “motion”, simply talking heads. And the mp3 is easy to download and listen to when disconnected from the website. Continue reading
