Twitter Makes You Immoral?

Brian Hartzer, CEO of ANZ's Australian operations has just announced his resignation - on Twitter – ANZozCEO.

Brain has become the first major bank CEO in Australia to use Twitter. The main intention of Brian to be on Twitter was to listen to customers and provide better customer service, providing a channel for easy and fast communication. And now, Twitter has become a good channel to submit resignations as well. So, an executive using corporate handle will not only have to resign from the organization, but also has to convey the same to his fellow friends and followers in the social media. During the course of the building the network with customers or followers in the social media sites, one builds an emotional bond that makes the person to do so and share their opinions, thoughts or decisions.

And in UK, something else happened. A magistrate had to resign after posting messages about the cases on Twitter. This person intends that he just wanted to make the judiciary more transparent.

But, scientists claim that twitter can make a person immoral. This study says that the speed with which the news updates and interactions are happening, are too fast for the brain to process. The danger is that regular users of Twitter and Facebook may become indifferent to human sufferings because they never get time to reflect and fully experience the emotions of other people feelings. The impact can be more dangerous for young generations whose brains are still developing. I was unable to read anywhere in this article about the news websites or news channels which update the news every hour. I guess these channels should also have the same impact. You need to note that this was the study of just 13 users.

My opinion is that Twitter, Facebook or any other social media should be used in a certain way to get the benefits out of this. It all depends the way you use it and take the full advantage of these tools. You do not have to become addicted or spend whole time on these and make your life depended on this. There are other social things also important in life that you need to attend. Is it necessary to read every tweet posted by a celebrity? Is it necessary to post every action of yours – say every minute or hour on such channels? You don’t have to make your whole life public on these sites? Or want to read about the whole life of others?

6 Tips to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job

Konstantin Guericke, Co-Founder and Vice President of LinkedIn and GuyKawasaki posted these easy tips. I am just summarizing the best and effective ones which I feel will definitely work for you. To be without a job, during such time of recession takes hell out of you. So, it is better to follow all the options available for a job search.

1. Use LinkedIn status updates to let your network and the world know that you are on look-out of a job.
2. Connect with former bosses and co-workers who can help you out in the search or refer to some organization.
3. Get LinkedIn recommendations from former and present bosses. A strong recommendation from you manger will highlight your strengths and shows you are a valued employee. This will specially help you if you were laid-off. Your manger will be happy to pen down a recommendation as he/she has laid you off.
4. Make sure your profile highlights your strengths and not just your regular responsibilities. Also, check the box under your contact settings stating you are open to career opportunities.
5. Search for jobs on LinkedIn. Also, check the second tab called “The Web”. Apply for the jobs which suit your profile.
6. Search in your geo-location for people who work in the industry you are targeting. Under ‘Interested in’ select Hiring Managers and contact them. Also, connect the people who are in second degree and increase the network.

If these tips help you in getting you a job, then do not forget to call me for a drink. Lastly, use the same profile picture on various social networking sites. This will help people who would like to connect you as they can easily identify by just seeing the picture.

3 Easy Tips To Use Social Networking Sites More Efficiently

One obvious reason, why many people do not participate actively on all the social networking sites is the lack of time and participating and following in all or many of them is too tedious. People usually participate with good enthusiasm on couple of them and ignore the rest. Moreover, when you walk through LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, you really do not have that much of patience or time to visit rest of them.

Here are simple tips to handle and keep a track of most of the social networking sites.

1. RSS Feeds makes it really simple. Most of social networking sites do provide RSS feeds and it is easy to keep track in your usual RSS reader, rather than log in and read the updates on the netwroking sites. You just need to subscribe the feeds of people you want to know the updates for say in Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. In your RSS reader, you can read the status messages and you can choose on which updates you want to respond for. Yes, to respond to conversations, you do have to go to the social networking site and submit. But, in RSS reader you really can choose to what updates or conservations you need to respond and you can keep yourself updated.
2. Setting the email or SMS notifications makes it short. Social media sites do provide email notifications and options to which you can select to receive email for. Set the options for which you want to receive email. You will be periodically updated through the emails. And I guess you really check your emails regularly. Twitter has a very good option to have an SMS sent to your mobile phone. Select the important ones and have the SMS option enabled to receive your important peoples’ tweets on your mobile.
3. Do many at a time in one snap. Update your status on most of the networking sites at a time. There are a number of applications and services available that allows you to update the status of more than one social networking site at one go. Update only once in this application and it is updated at most of the networking sites at the same time. www.ping.fm and www.hellotxt.com are couple of them. In both these websites, you can send status messages via mobile phone, IMs like MSN, AOL, Yahoo or GTalk and any of the networking sites itself. In turn these sites post the status update message on various networking sites (about 30+ sites) in one snap.

I would not suggest having your accounts everywhere and keeping updating them. I would rather suggest use few ones and good ones where you feel your like-minded network is and participate enthusiastically and strategically. As I feel, what ever time you spent on these networking sites should be productive and useful to you and others as well. So, happy networking with these simple tips.