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Peter Sunde is better known as co-founder of the infamous Pirate Bay, a Swedish website that indexed BitTorrent files. At this year’s Republica Conference he introduced a very different start up concept, Flattr, the name being a combination of Flattery and Flat rate. This is a new micropayment system [...]
When one of the top four global accountancy firms published a provocative point of view recently about the regulation of Europe’s hedge funds, internet immediacy helped to ensure it was widely read and discussed. For asset managers, the firm instantly became the forward-thinking authority that they needed to consult to ensure their UCITS hedge fund [...]
Nestlé’s social media mishap was one of many examples that helped prove German professor and psychologist Peter Kruse’s point. In his presentation at this year’s re:publica conference in Berlin he illustrated how the Internet is facilitating a redistributing of power from the providers to the receivers.
Facebook is an excellent resource for building strong connections with the student and graduate community, but achieving Facebook success is not as straightforward as it may seem. Some pages such as the Oxford University page have achieved a high number of followers by really understanding the medium and using it to its full advantage. Other [...]
Building relationships with the student and graduate communities is changing on-campus recruitment activities and generating a buzz around online social media. Combining all on- and offline activities into an integrated relationship development strategy, however, is still some way off for most graduate recruiters, although one of the benefits of joined-up thinking could be to impress [...]
It’s always hard to grab students’ attention at careers fares when the guys in the corner have a tank to play with. But the latest communications technology offers some attention grabbers that can also demonstrate that innovation isn’t just a word in the recruitment blurb.
Internal Communications – HR 2.0?
Over the last few years, new opportunities have arisen for HR teams to leverage social media and Web 2.0 in internal branding. Social media is now being used extensively through corporate platforms to unify, establish collaboration, create innovation and even to establish corporate standards across large multinational corporations. While the [...]
Since the launch of the ipad the excitement about mobile apps which has been creating a buzz in the tech world for a couple of years has exploded into the mainstream. The Number of apps available and the number of downloads are reported in numbers too large to compute and it’s been predicted that mobile [...]
Are you digitally extinct or distinct?
Today, first impressions are gained online. Though you may not be aware of it, people are likely to be making judgments about you based on your virtual self and may choose to either interview you or do business with you based on what they find. Before a job interview or [...]
SEI recently completed a survey of institutional investors and their perspective on hedge funds, the outcome of which was a list of four main factors Institutional Investors look for. We’ve reviewed the SEI factors, added one, and focused on how you can cater to the institutional investors needs through your website and how a good [...]
