Social Networking

Like in my previous post, Linkedin is a great way for companies to find new workers for their job force. For a fee, they can see resumes posted by the users in Linkedin's community as sort out the people that they want to hire from key words. This helps them lower the amount of work needed to be done in order to scan for potential employees.

Twitter has also been a hot thing that was recently developed and is spreading around as much as blogs are. In a recent article in the NYTimes by Claire Cain Miller, twitter has helped people in their protest as well as their praises. Just recently over the weekend, "one author noticed that Amazon had reclassified books with gay and lesbian themes as 'adult' and removed them from the main search and sales rankings, a protest broke out on blogs and Twitter." Because Amazon was able to see this, they quickly tried to rectify the situation before it got out of hand. In another article by Laura M. Holson, David Puner "will often scan what others are saying about Dunkin’ Donuts and re-tweet the most positive comments." Since he has more than 20 thousand followers, this tweet would most likely be re-tweeted and the process could continue for who-knows-how-long.

"Tweeting Your Way to a Job," by Laura M. Holson, The New York Times, May 20, 2009. Available from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/fashion/21whiz.html

Putting Twitter’s World to Use by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER, The New York Times, April 14, 2009, p. B1. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14twitter.html