Katharine Robinson is TheSourceress
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by TheSourceress on January 2, 2012
You cannot know me and not be aware that I love Percy Pig sweets from Marks and Spencer.
I tweet about them. I eat them in bed, on the bus and at the office. I have Percy on my key-ring and in my Christmas stocking. I know that a lot of people feel the same way. [...]
Tagged as: M&S, Marketing, marks and spencer, percy pig, social media, twitter
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by TheSourceress on December 30, 2011
One of the things people ask me about most is the fine line between personal and professional on Social Media.
It’s usually recruiters, that I meet in a professional setting, who are most concerned about how much to give away on social sites like Twitter.
I tell them not to worry, as long as they don’t act [...]
Tagged as: career, personal brands, professional, social media, Social Networks, twitter
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by TheSourceress on December 28, 2011
Inspired by other people’s creative use of Foursquare, my compulsion to create lists and a passionate love of all things Star Trek, I decided to put together a special foursquare list over the Christmas break.
Well, so far I’ve found more than 20 real places here on Planet Earth that might be of interest to Star Trek fans [...]
Tagged as: earth, foursquare, fun, Lists, san fransisco, social media, star trek
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by TheSourceress on December 14, 2011
I was inspired to write this post after presenting on “Twitter & Recruiting” at The FIRM’s Social Media event yesterday.
We all know that referencing someone’s twitter username with an @ symbol infront creates a link to their profile in your tweet.
Did you realise that where you place that @username can have a big impact on [...]
Tagged as: social media, tips, twitter
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by TheSourceress on December 8, 2011
The Social Media eureka moment for me came about six months after signing up for Twitter. I had been using Facebook for a couple of years and had tried blogging too. I was fascinated by this new social frontier, though it had not really proved itself valuable to me as a professional yet.
Then, a recruiter [...]
Tagged as: capgemini, social media, Social Networks, twitter
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by TheSourceress on September 22, 2011
If you weren’t using Twitter in June 2009, you can be forgiven for not being excited about this fact.
Tweetcamp was an event held in Richmond on a sunny Saturday back in June 2009 – I had been using Twitter for just a year and didn’t know that many people in “real life” yet. There was great [...]
Tagged as: brandwatch, data visualisation, Event, Global Integration, Indigo Clothing, London, Millie's Cookies, Nexus Globalnet, PeopleBrowsr, RS Components, social media, tweetcamp, twitter
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by TheSourceress on August 22, 2011
Recent adventures on Empire Avenue have left me thinking about why I use various social sites.
The more Eaves I earn on Empire Avenue, the more investments I can make and the more people I can then connect to. That is what will make the site useful to me in the long term. At this stage, [...]
Tagged as: digital identity, Empire Avenue, Facebook, fun, gamification, GetGlue, LinkedIn, personal brands, social media, Social Networks, twitter
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During the day, I search the internet for people that companies want to talk to, the rest of the time I wax lyrical about Laundry, Cheese, Star Trek, Tea and Tweetups.
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