Why and How Should We Use Social Networking as a Recruiting Tool

twitter is a free micro-blogging services.
“tweets” are text based messages (updates) limited to 140 characters that are posted to the users page and to the page of the user’s subscribers
Messages can be posted either through twitter.com, SMS (text messages), or through external applications
twitter is commonly referred to as the fastest growing website, with its Feb 2009 growth, according to nielsen.com, 1382%
On the twitter homepage, without joining, you are allowed to find out “what people are saying about ___________”.

digg is a social news website designed for people to share content from anywhere on the internet.
Users vote stories up and down, and the most dugg stories and videos appear on the front page
Facebook and digg can be connected through Facebook Connect, which then allows users to show digg links on their own facebook pages.
Complaints have been lodged against digg for its inability to control the content submitted by users.
Networks can be built so that people can see what the user diggs and the user can see what those in the network digg.
Designed to let people see relevant, entertaining or shocking news, videos or blogs.
Links like the one below are put onto websites to encourage a user to digg it.

Videos published on youtubecan be copied, altered and commented on, however, it is one of the most searched websites on the internet.
If we have videos from Marketing, Honors, Nursing, Athletics, John Deere Ag Tech, off-campuses, the NC Foundation and many other areas of the college, we can make an effort to see our videos at the top of searches.

Linkedin is a business-oriented social networking site with more than 43 million users, and offers job search and headhunter services similar to monster.com and jobing.com.
The purpose of the site is to maintain a list of contact details of people users know and trust in business.
The connections are as follows:
Direct Connections – personal knowledge of the person
Second Degree Connections – connections of the other party in a direct connection (I know you and you know him)
Third Degree Connections – a connection of a second degree connection
Groups are available, but contact can only be made through direct connection or with intervention from a mutual contact.
As of now, there are no Marketing related groups on Linkedin
Facebook started as a way to connect only with those that you went to College with, but has now expanded to a full social networking site, and Linkedin is assumed to follow the same route.

Slideshare is an extremely new presentation sharing website where users can upload, view and share presentation files.
Can be used for E-Learning, advertising, market presentations etc.
Could be a very useful way to communicate to future students.

Different options to use to sign up

Can be connected to Facebook or Linkedin