Carve Consulting: Social Media, Corporate Social Networking, ePR, Social Recruiting, Reputation Management

HR expert’s top tips on managing social media in the workplace

Sarah Thomas — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:40:10 +0000

One of the most common questions that comes up when I’m speaking with people about introducing social media in the workplace is how to manage it. The below top tips are from Michael Specht who’s an HR and technology expert and owner of Inspecht. There’s also a podcast you can view from Michael’s website but I thought [...]

LinkedIn expanding its Australian operations

Sarah Thomas — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:08:36 +0000

We’ve written before about the growth of LinkedIn in Australia so we were interested to read about the organisations’ plans to increase the headcount in the Sydney office in The Australian newspaper today. And as I was writing this post the below email from the fairly new MD, Clifford Rosenberg, just popped into my inbox as [...]

Internet consumption grows but NOT at expense of TV, radio or books

Sarah Thomas — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:33:34 +0000

The latest technology and internet report from Nielsen shows that Australians’ internet consumption in 2009 increased by 9 per cent from 2008 but not at the expense of TV or any other traditional media that you might imagine. I’d love to know where we are finding the time to do all this - obviously watching TV [...]

Online Repuation for Recruiters

Paul Harrison — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:32:47 +0000

I recently had the pleasure of presenting to the APSCo meeting in Manchester, where we presented ideas around online reputation for recruiters, or “Reputation 2.0″. Reputation 2.0 View more presentations from Carve Consulting .

3 social media models - what’s right for your company?

Sarah Thomas — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:06:34 +0000

In a great article from Advertising Age, Kunur Patel looks at the different social media models emerging in the corporate world: 1. Centralised - social media role functions at a senior level as used by Ford 2. Distributed - everyone in the organisation has a role in social media as seen at Best Buy 3. Combination - incorporates [...]

So, will Foursquare become the next Twitter?

Sarah Thomas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:00:59 +0000

I remember when mobile location based services were first being touted in 2000 - in the midst of the dotcom boom and getting our heads around exactly what e-commerce was, it was all so exciting and held so much promise. It was around the same time when I believed the hype about voice recognition software and [...]

Tracking the fall-out from the economic crisis…via LinkedIn

Sarah Thomas — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:12:16 +0000

While updating some LinkedIn training materials for a client session this week, I came across the following image from the LinkedIn blog that shows just how powerful a tool LinkedIn can be. It shows that even though many people left the financial industry after the collapse, a large proportion stayed and you can see where they [...]

People HATE US on Yelp

Adelaide — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:07:20 +0000

Heard today about a firm offering to remove bad reviews about your business from yelp. co.uk This is an interesting development in the ongoing “reputation 2.0″ debate.. as is this from GeekSugar: There are a lot of business owners who’ve felt the sting of bad Yelp reviews, and one restaurant in San Francisco is getting even [...]

Carve is looking for a twintern

Adelaide — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:01:00 +0000

Prompted by the good people at Chinwag, we are now recruiting our very own twintern for the Summer. Graduates, start sending your CVs to Adelaide@carveconsulting.com . We can’t wait to have the next social media expert on board for a few weeks! Here is what our offer looks like: You are passionate about all things social media, [...]

Social Media in Recruitment

Paul Harrison — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:54:24 +0000

Carve was asked last year to contribute a chapter to the Social Media in Recruitment guide, following a well received presentation I made on Corporate Social Networking ( where ‘Social Media meets Business’ ) at the British Library. Our chapter is focused on ‘Developing an Effective Corporate Social Networking Strategy‘ and draws on our experiences of [...]