During the last week, I have attended the South by South West (SXSW) conference in Austin Texas. This is one of the biggest festivals in the world. The conference consist of three different parts: Film, Music and Interactive. I attended the Interactive part, five days of presentations from the best people in emerging technology, industry leaders [...]
When using social media in a professional setting there can often be different tools to use that will allow for a more efficient use of social media. Visma Trainee operate on different platforms of social media. Today I will describe the tools that we use to track our twitter account activity. Twitter is a fast [...]
That is what the Canadian entrepreneur and social media expert Maggie Fox asks in the latest edition of VISMAgazine. “It all about fishing where the fishes are. Businesses who don’t see the value of social media and how it affects business processes, will struggle, since you have to communicate with your customers where they are [...]
At Severa we have a Free Beach Ball competition for our Twitter followers. One of the lucky winners is Anders Sporring from Stockholm, who is better known on the web as cityrat59. Anders has a strong career in project management, quality assurance, maintenance and logistics. These days he’s seeking new professional opportunities in his established [...]
Earlier this week we had a poll where we asked if people believed that using social media in a strategic way would increase a student of getting a job. Not surprisingly everybody who answere said yes. But then the question is how does one use social media in a correct strategic way? There is an [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the differences in different social media. In my report I uncovered that some people (not too many) use social media as a way to market themselves as individuals with the goal to either obtain their first job or a new job. However most people that used social media strategically, were older [...]
