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

Google Instant Search

Paul Harrison — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:07:26 +0000

What Google is describing as a “fundamental shift” in search, Google instant is now upon us. Check out the video here:

Apple lauches Ping : Facebook meets Twitter for Music

christophe — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:30:44 +0000

Integrated with Facebook (follow your friends), similar to Twitter (follow Artists), based on the now popular asymetric friendship model (you don”t have to be a follower to get followed and vice-versa) and backed-up by personnalized recommendations (charts/artists/people to follow), Ping is available for desktop iTunes and will soon be for IPod and IPhone as well. It [...]

The New LinkedIn communication channels

christophe — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:32:36 +0000

LinkedIn is by far the biggest Professional Social Network online, with more than 75 million members coming from over 200 countries. Within the network, individuals can communicate with one another in several ways, from Recommendations to Inmail, from Group discussions to Introductions. LinkedIn’s potential for recruiting purposes resides in its own complexity. LinkedIn offers several ways [...]

A URL shortener for your brand.

christophe — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:20:43 +0000

The customised URL shortener we created for National Tourist Office VisitBritain is really beginning to take off. Why should you do the same for your brand ? It looks cool, right ? But there is of course more than a geeky guilty pleasure behind this idea. Here’s how Coke describes its URL shortener, http://cokeurl.com/: [...]

Mapping Social Networks

Adelaide — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:14:15 +0000

Lovingly produced in a Middle Earth style by the people at Flowtown , this is the latest iteration of the trend for mapping social networks, this one to scale and with some humour.

The Twitter Movie

Adelaide — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:11:59 +0000

Sure to be part of an infinitely longer series…

TweetDeck on Android…

george@carveconsulting.com — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:51:14 +0000

News today that the popular TweetDeck will soon be released on Android. For further info read: http://mashable.com/2010/08/12/tweetdeck-for-android/

Talent Retention, Social Recruiting

Adelaide — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:39:51 +0000

Or how to keep your best people as the job market opens back up… Award Winning Management Consultancy recruitment specialists BLT use video effectively to not just engage & attract candidates, but also to socialise and seed their client-focussed activities. This film captures the recent client event hosted at BLT Towers on Talent Retention. Read more on [...]

La Poste delivers real-time customer service via Twitter

christophe — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:49:35 +0000

Let’s say you just sent a DVD to one of your friends and would like to be informed about how this is going. In addition to a classic phonecall or customer service website visit, you can now follow your mail journey on Twitter with La Poste. The process is as innovative as it is simple. You simply [...]

South Australia launches online community consultations

Sarah Thomas — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:17:01 +0000

We were thrilled to have been at the launch of the community consultations for the update of the South Australian Strategic Plan today. It was inspiring to see so many community groups, businesses, individuals and government come together for the common goal of making the place we live the best it can be. South Australia has been [...]