A recent USA Today article highlights the growing trend of using social
networking profiles for background screening.
Her daughter, for instance, has a private social
network profile for her real friends and a public one for people who want to be «friends» with a daughter of John and Elizabeth Edwards.
Jen was a chatbot, programmed to scour social
network profiles for personal information then initiate conversations with the intention of suckering people into divulging their financial details.
A social
networking profile for LinkedIn is a great way to improve your digital footprint and position yourself ahead of the competition.
Not exact matches
beBee, a fast emerging global social
network for professionals, allows entrepreneurs to display up to five gigs right on their
profile.
If someone isn't willing to provide a complete name and fill out a complete
profile properly, they're not fit
for your
network.
The analysis, done by Millennial Branding and analytics company Identified.com, was created by a team of data scientists crunching raw information from 4 million Facebook
profiles of young people to uncover how they are representing themselves on Facebook — and whether they're using the social
network for business purposes.
I love that Stacey brings up the point about being active in private Facebook groups, this is an often untapped
network possibility that one may not participate in if they are set on using their
profile for personal use only.
With that said though many business owners, especially online business owners (like me) use their private
profile for networking.
The site became an effective social
networking tool
for youth, and users liked the ability to personalize the shape and colour of their
profile.
Digital business card apps
for smart phones, Web, and PCs let you swap contact info and social
network profiles.
Both reports come as companies are feeling particularly vulnerable: In December's high -
profile Operation Aurora, hackers targeted employees (and their social
networks) from Google, Adobe Systems, and two dozen others, hunting
for ways to infiltrate the companies» computer systems.
If not
for anonymous social
networks, where else can users be truly honest and yet heard without being somehow
profiled?
His recently released book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent,
profiles leaders in various industries — from entertainment to football to food to software —
for their abilities to cultivate massive
networks of talent.
Related: Delta and LinkedIn Team Up
For In - Flight
Networking Project With its most recent iOS and Android update this week, the app now has a social check - in function, allowing passengers to use Facebook to see who else is on their flight, provided they have downloaded app and have a
profile that is public.
The women's professional
network Levo,
for instance, launched its annual #Ask4More campaign last week, opening with comments from high -
profile leaders such as Chelsea Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg on the importance of demanding equal pay and equality generally.
First things first: optimize your business
profile for each specific
network.
Your Facebook page should be facebook.com/yourbizname, the same goes
for all other
profiles on any
network that allows it.
The award
for best film was taken by Richard Linklater's «Boyhood», produced by the relatively low -
profile IFC films, an offshoot of New York - based AMC
Networks Inc..
This is an extension of the last point — if you are active on a few social
networks and you Google your business name, the results are going to all be
for your business, because of all of these social
profiles.
Scripps
Networks Interactive is the leading developer of high -
profile content
for many lifestyle media platforms including television, digital, mobile and publishing.
In the high -
profile tussle
for 6,000 wireless patents from bankrupt Nortel
Networks, Google kicked off the tug - of - war with a stalking horse bid of $ 900 - million — far greater than anyone expected.
Workforce development: BanQu creates a 360 economic
profile for individuals and businesses, including trainings, cash
for work programs, conditional cash transfers, employment history, and referral systems through trust
networks.
Those just registering
for the app would share their Facebook information, and Bumble got their name, age, occupation, school, and photos from the social
network to build a dating
profile.
Facebook continues to modify its News Feed to include larger and more prominently displayed images and videos, Pinterest is now the fourth most popular social
networking site, and Twitter now pulls pictures and videos right into its timeline — and has used its recent
profile pages update to allow
for larger header photos and
profile pictures.
Data Domain offers «deduplication storage appliances
for disk - based backup, archiving, and
network - based disaster recovery,» according to its
profile on Yahoo Finance.
For example, customers can use bitcoin (and other cryptocurrency) apps to buy goods from high -
profile companies like Microsoft, Expedia, Newegg and DISH
Network even without a bank account, a common circumstance in many markets.
Fruitnet Forum Middle East, a brand - new
networking event, has been designed to promote new opportunities
for trade in the Middle East featuring high -
profile local and international presenters.
He's begun writing
profiles and stories
for other recruiting sites within the Rivals
network,
for which he gets paid, but he views it all as a very intense hobby.
That kind of cash grab, sources say, is rubbing ESPN and Fox the wrong way because any new schools would not carry the
profile of most power five schools, which is what the
networks are paying
for.
You can update your
profiles and monitor comments and reader interactions easily
for each of your
networks.
Many individual activists find that blogs and social
network profiles are more than enough, while a straightforward CMS can make a campaign or organization site into a live and editable communications tool
for non-technical staff.
For presidential campaigns that are already maintaining social
networking profiles on several sites, adding a few extras probably isn't going to stretch resources much — national campaigns can pick up extra supporters a few thousand here or a few thousand there, and they're going to be looking at plenty of different niches, online and off.
Facebook has significantly expanded the online advertising playing field over the past couple of years, primarily because ads on the social
network can be targeted at people based on the interests they've listed in their Facebook
profiles and on their demographic characteristics («men aged 25 - 34 who like football» would be an easily targetable group,
for instance).
Washington Post online politics reporter Jose Antonio Vargas wrote over the weekend on the Obama campaign's use of niche social
networking sites
for voter outreach: And as of Friday, he's the first candidate to have
profiles on BlackPlanet.com and MiGente.com, popular soc - nets in the...
That Haqqani, whose
network has been responsible
for some of the highest -
profile attacks of the Afghan war, was not chosen as successor is an important indication of the direction the Taliban intends to take.
Link to them from your main website and social
network profiles, promote them to your email list, and make sure that it's as easy as possible
for viewers to forward your link to others (a feature generally built into video - sharing sites).
Campaign
profile pages are free,
for starters, and more and more of the standard political - world web - hosting tools are providing options (from widgets to badges to petitions) that allow campaigns to encourage supporters to become evangelists on blogs, discussion groups — AND social
networking sites.
The social
networking site said that around 270,000 people downloaded the app and «gave their consent
for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their
profile.»
Though custom social
networks are by definition their own isolated ponds, Gina described how you can connect them to the broader waters of Facebook and MySpace, first by fishing
for members through a Facebook Fan Page / Group or a MySpace
profile.
MySpace and Facebook as well as niche
networks such as Black Planet were fertile ground
for the campaign itself and
for supporters acting on their own, and the campaign eventually maintained official
profiles on some 15 different online social
networks (accumulating five million «friends» in total).
Aecom chief executive
for civil infrastructure Richard Robinson commented: «High
profile, transformational projects such as HS2, Hinkley and Heathrow are vital but must not be prioritised to the detriment of the Highways England and
Network Rail schemes that keep our country running.»
Success Academy suffered a defeat in a high -
profile skirmish with New York City on Friday, when the state education commissioner ruled that the city could require the charter school
network to sign a contract to receive funding
for its prekindergarten program.
It's not uncommon
for us to receive calls from the main TV and radio
networks requesting interviews with clients
for whom we have secured high -
profile online coverage, which has been picked up subsequently by a broadcast producer.
Salifu Saeed tasked civil engineers in the region to
profile the cut - off road
networks and submit their report
for government's rapid response.
While Moskowitz has not been shy in critiquing de Blasio, she largely avoided calling him out over the last several months, focusing instead on evangelizing
for charters and promoting her
network during a slew of high -
profile national appearances.
Continuing her run of high -
profile national appearances, Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz testified before Congress on Tuesday at a panel on economic opportunity
for African - Americans, arguing that elements of her charter school
network could be applied nationwide to help address educational disparities
for black students.
Mr Anokye according to his
profile on LinkedIn is a Telecommunications Service Manager at NASA, responsible
for Integrated Services
Network and Information Technology and Services.
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for themselves early on by
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It covers topics like
networking, applying
for jobs, negotiating, developing the right skills
for industry, or even turning your LinkedIn
profile into a magnet
for recruiters.