Career strategist, Nicolette Pizzitola (a former Tips of the Trade featured guest) speed-coached three women on the Today Show this morning, giving them advice to get their career back on track:
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Nicolette also hosted a live chat on the Today Show website after the show to answer viewer questions. She gave some advice on how to apply for a job:
When applying for a job, don’t forget
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She was our most recent guest for our “Tips of The Trade” feature, sharing her insights and advise on effective ways to use social media. Now Nicollett Pizzitola will be featured on the Today Show! Please set your TV, DVR or Tivo TOMORROW, May 1st, for her live appearance on the Today Show during the 8:00 AM ET hour. She’ll be hosting a segment designed to help women who are stuck in their careers find their way out of a professional rut.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Compass Point Associates, Nicolette leads a coaching and consulting firm which
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Twitter’s Vine app is a popular video-sharing service that recently topped the U.S. App Store’s list of free iPhone apps. Vine creates short looping videos in a simple and fun way that you can share with your friends, family, and followers. Organizations are using Vine to promote new products and gain excitement about upcoming music albums.
Have you thought about how you can bring it into your organization? The General Services Administration has recently blogged that Vine videos can be created without breaking any GSA rules. Organizations such as NASA, U.S. Health Data and the Department of
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Happy Birthday @Twitter! Here’s a look back…
Danielle Ricks
Social Media Specialist
Campaign Consultation, Inc.
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A career strategist, coach and speaker, Nicolette Pizzitola is the founder of Compass Point Associates, a coaching and consulting firm providing services ranging from career management for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs, to talent management initiatives and leadership coaching within organizations.
An expert in career and talent management, Nicolette is dedicated to teaching individuals to define their success, shape their professional identities, and manage their career.
In addition to speaking at TEDxAdamsMorganWomen in 2012, Nicolette is a frequent speaker at academic institutions, corporations and associations. She has taught career management strategies at The George Washington University
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Let’s say a fond farewell to Google Reader. Yes, that’s right, Google Reader is going the way of Google Wave and will be no more as of July 1.
Google Reader is a popular and widely used RSS reader that allows you to subscribe to your favorite blogs –Like All Things E- without having them emailed to you and cluttering up your inbox. The web is all a buzz with news that Reader is going away and whether this signals the death of feeds all together.
USAToday.com summed it up this way, “Naturally, Reader’s impending shutdown has sparked discussion
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We recently wrote a post on how to bring quirk to your social media and on this week’s wrap up we reached out to some social media experts and novices on how they would use Google Glass to personalize (and add quirk, of course) to the work they do on the web.
But first here’s a little background on Google glass. They are glasses that you wear (imagine the terminator glasses) and they do the following via voice commands:
Takes pictures Takes videos Searches the web Share what you see live via the web Give directions
Here are some
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Pinterest featue in Metro – 27th February 2012 (Photo credit: Great British Chefs)
After hearing the great tips from Geoff Livingston, it’s time to dive right in and see what you can do to market your organization creatively. Below are some resources that will help you visually market your organization.
Everyone loves an infograph. Create one with your impact data and share it with your networks on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Company blog, and even go old school, if you have a company newsletter, stick it in there! Do you work with smart, creative people? Videotape them (make sure
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After learning about how the Healthcare Hashtag Project efficiently tracks important hashtags and twitter chats related to health, it’s time to start thinking about what you can do with Twitter for your organization in your specific field. But first it’s helpful to learn about what others are doing with hashtags, and what’s best for your organization.
Things to do using Hashtags:
5 Ways Businesses Should Use Hashtags. See how hashtags created successful marketing campaigns.
Things to avoid when using hashtags:
Five Twitter Hashtag PR Disasters Social Good Tips: Remember, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, look here for
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With any cause or campaign, it’s often daunting and difficult to dive into a Twitter conversation. You’re supposed to listen first, right? What are popular hashtags? Where do you find the online influencers? Are there conferences or Twitter chats you should be following?
If you’re asking all of the right questions, but still throwing spaghetti against your Twitter wall, know that you are not alone.
Without certain powerful and expensive analytical tools already in our online bookmarks, non-profits, advocacy groups, small businesses, and more are at a loss for how to quickly understand specific
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