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Cool Tool Alert: Tweepler
Lots of people have started following me on Twitter over the last month or so – I think my follower count has gone up by at least 200 since the beginning of December! Ron Burgundy would answer that...
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Blellow – Testing The Beta
I saw a tweet about Blellow‘s new beta site from Mandi Leman a few days ago, announcing a prize of a free SXSWi pass and a VIP pass to Mash*Bash on March 16th. Since I’d do just about anything to go to...
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Cool Tool Alert: Contxts
While monitoring the NCAA Tournament Selection Show this afternoon on Twitter, I saw a passing tweet from Pete Cashmore (@mashable) of Mashable fame mentioning a website called Contxts. I was curious...
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Searching Using Koders
2 years ago I submitted an entry into AIRS Xtreme Sourcing Games contest. I won Runner-Up for the contest and my prize was being able to take the classes to earn the CIR designation through AIRS. A...
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Cool Tool Alert: TweetChat
This will be a very brief Cool Tool Alert, but a really awesome one. We’re all interested in finding better ways to pare down all the information we receive on a daily basis, and TweetChat allows you...
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Cool Tool Alert: ReferYes
ReferYes is a cool tool particularly for its Source People function. As a whole offering, ReferYes: “…is a job referral marketplace where a network of sourcers provides recruiters with information...
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My Wordle Word Cloud
OK, I’m still trying to come up with a good use for this from a sourcing capacity, but in the meantime it just looks awesome! Plug your blog URL into Wordle, and generate a beautiful word cloud of the...
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Cool Tool Alert: TweetParty
This is a great Cool Tool post because there is direct use for this tool in candidate interaction! This week, I am featuring Tweetparty, a Twitter app which allows you to direct message multiple...
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Cool Tool Alert: Biometric Flash Drive
Flash drives are getting cheaper and cheaper, and are becoming more and more handy for making our work portable. Just a couple of common uses for flashdrives include: Resume storage for quick upload at...
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Cool Tool Alert: Calendar Tweet
A day late for my Cool Tool Alert of the week, but hey, yesterday was a holiday here in the States! This cool tool alert will be very helpful for promoting webinars, concerts, networking events, etc....
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Cool Tool Alert: 140it
My Cool Tool Alert this week is 140it (pronounced ‘One-Forty-it’). Having been around since early 2009, this tool will help you condense your tweets into the necessary 140 characters to be sent. No...
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Cool Tool Alert: Hashtag Chats
Admittedly this isn’t anything terribly new, but I would bet money that most of you have never participated in a hashtag chat before! So, what is a hashtag chat? First off, let’s define a Hashtag: it’s...
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Cool Tool Alert – AutoSearch Mobile iPhone App
The Cool Tool Alert has returned! This week, I want to feature a neat iPhone app that is an extension of a service that I learned about way back in June at the Fordyce Forum from founder Lori...
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Cool Tool Alert: Masterbranch
Found this new resource for IT professionals (and IT recruiters too!) – Masterbranch. It’s a network that’s currently only available for IT folks, letting them connect with each other through search...
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Why I Prefer TweepML Over Twitter Lists
Twitter recently released Twitter Lists which allow you to group people together based on whatever subjective categorization method you want. For example: since its rollout I’ve been made a part of 107...
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Cool Tool Alert: Twiangulate
This seems to be a great tool to find common connections between you and someone you follow or want to follow on Twitter. If you’re looking for a tool to help find great people to follow, give...
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Cool Tool Alert: Tweepi
If you’ve got some cleaning up to do when it comes to the people whom you follow on Twitter, I highly recommend Tweepi. It’s not just a clean-up tool, it’s actually a complete Twitter account...
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Five Tools For Searching Twitter Profiles
Earlier today, I spent about 30 minutes in the Arbita Sourcing Lab at SourceCon showing the participants how to search Twitter profiles and clean/manage their followers. We had fun and learned how to...
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How To Instantly Make Your Blog Posts More “Social”
Want a couple of simple tips to make your blog posts more social? I’ve been messing around with a couple of aggregation tools and I’ve discovered two quick ways to get your content in front of more...
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How To Find Personal Email Addresses on the Internet Using WHOIS
As a sourcer or a recruiter, one of the best ways to differentiate yourself these days when reaching out to prospects is knowing the best places to reach them. Personal contact information – a home or...
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