Social Media for Learning and Growth

So I blogged at Social Samosa this week on how you can use social media to learn and grow in your career. A key component of that is joining and contributing to skill communities.

There was an interesting article in Social Media Today about how online businesses are moving from social graphs to interest graphs.

Skill communities are another sort of interest graphs - connecting people across the world who share a desire to connect and share expertise to a specific skill area.

Oh, by the way, you can now follow me on BraveNewTalent too.

Talent Recruiting Through Twitter

So I was interviewed by Mid-Day's journalist Yoshita on how I was hired by Gaurav Mishra into 2020 Social. Also was quoted on the growing trend of social media profiles acting as proxy resumes.

You can read the article here:

According to Ghosh, the HR/jobs market follows the path of the marketing market. Marketing has moved from a transaction mode to building relations and it is a similar case with the HR/jobs market. "Companies are realising the declining value of job portals. All a person on such sites needs to do is to tick a profile and send it to thousands of companies. Some of the CVs, which do turn out to be suitable, are kept in the database of the company but when firms try to get in touch with the applicants, their contact details are no longer current," Ghosh explains. Social media, he says, is much more alive, updated and immediate.

Why Share Your Expertise ?

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A lot of times people ask me why I blog, tweet, share stuff online. They think I am wasting my time. But its is because of such sharing that I have discovered and learned more than other people who look forward to learning as a formal "event" that they or their employer has to pay for.

Online sharing of ideas and opinions are like a dialog and often helps in helping you think about an issue in more clarity after the discussion than you had before. Connecting around learning online also leads you to discover content in various types from text, to documents, to slides and videos.

Hyperlinking makes online content dependent on what the user needs rather than what an author or trainer wants to convey. It gives the adult learners an option of going deep into a subject or to keep it at a surface level.

When you share your skill you also ensure that others look at you as an authority, if they find your content compelling. People can vote with their feet and leave when the value of that content falls, when better people start sharing their content too!

My colleague Charlie has shared a detailed list of 8 reasons to participate in Skill Communities at the BraveNewTalent Blog. Go read it, too

Time for Social HR and Enterprise 2.0

My latest posts on the Social Business News site is whether the time is right for Social HR? What do you think, folks?

On the Social Samosa site I deconstruct that thing called Enterprise Social Software (aka Enterprise 2.0)

Happy reading, folks and feel free to share, like, tweet and +1 the posts :D

Would love your comments too, either here or there :)

Related articles

• Enterprise Social Software Will be Pervasive by 2016 - Perhaps (billives.typepad.com)
• Best Practices, Enterprise 2.0 and Social IT - with Passion (raesmaa.wordpress.com)
• What is Enterprise 2.0 - by AIIM (markjowen.wordpress.com)

Speaking at the World HRD Congress 2012, Mumbai on Feb 17

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I'll be speaking at the World HRD Congress at Mumbai on 17th February on "Social Media and Recruitment". The venue is Taj Lands End, Bandra.

And I'll be there the whole duration of the conference from 16th to 18th. If you're there, do connect and say Hi :-) Even if you're not at the conference, but are based in Mumbai and want to meet, let me know!

Looking forward to listen and meet (for the first time) Dave Mendoza. And to reconnect with people like Ester Martinez, NS Rajan, SV Nathan, Judhajit Das and to meet lots of new people.  

Talent is King

This is a video of the talk that Lucian Tarnowski (CEO of BraveNewTalent) gave at the DLD Conference in January 2012, covering the skills gap and the role for organizations to leverage online communities to bridge that gap.
Hope you enjoy the video :)

Communities of Practice and Social Recruiting

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Last year I blogged about how I believe Talent Communities are online spaces where people connect around a shared skill/practice areas to learn.

Last week my employer BraveNewTalent launched new features that enable creation of skill communities.

So now not only do Companies get people to follow them and their updates (and communicate directly with them) they can also enable their experts to engage in these skill communities and share their knowledge with community members.

The skills communities are of different types - from technical skills like PHP to softer skills like community management to HR Skills

So come on explore the skills communities you'd like to contribute to as well as learn in.

Related articles

• Now On @BraveNewTalent: Skill Communities (gautamghosh.net)
• Davos: BraveNewTalent Allows Job Seekers To Follow Their Future Employers (gautamghosh.net)

Social Media and Recruitment

I recently presented to an executive search firm (one of the biggest in the world) on how Social Media is impacting the Recruiting process

So here's the presentation for your use too - feel free to download it and share it with friends and colleagues :)

How to leverage Social media for Recruitment - the BraveNewTalent way

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