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Social media for hotels : 5 great blogs
I don’t pretend to know everything about anything. Thankfully I don’t have to. I have the internet to fill in the gaps. This is the first of a series of blog posts designed primarily to point you in the direction of great sources of information I have found. Some…
Recruitment via social media: Are recruitment consultants a dying breed?
As a candidate for executive positions my experience of recruitment companies is fairly uniform. Normally I will only sign up with a recruitment consultant as part of the process of application for a particular post I have already found on the internet. The recruiter, acting as a middle man filtering…
Social media for health care professionals – part 2
[subscribe2] In Social media for health professionals Part 1 we identified three important ways health care professionals can and should make use of social media. Proactive customer service – information on healthy lifestyle choices, health care provision Reactive customer service – answering problems and responding to online criticisms in an…
Social media for health care professionals – part 1
In one study of health and social media respondents to the following question ‘How likely are you to trust health information posted online through social media by Doctors’ 60% of respondents answered in the affirmative. To the same question on other information sources respondents answered Hospital – 55% Nurse –…
Room service: the social-media friendly hotel
Social media is an excellent means by which to provide service and build and consolidate relationships with guests and other hotel users. You ignore social media users at your peril. Here are some things you might do and your competitor hotels are already doing on social media offer discounts to…
Recruitment using social media : a short how-to guide
Social media in recruitment is so important these days that there is an entire industry dedicated to it. Researching this industry it quickly becomes apparent that success in matching candidates to jobs does not come from posting lists of job vacancies on Twitter, Facebook or blogs. What works is the…