The Year of the API

How Social Media and Job boards will start to share information in 2012.

http://www.recruiter.co.uk/opinion/2012/03/the-year-of-the-api/

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How Social Media Can Help You Stay In Your Contacts Peripheral Vision

Excellent blog from Louise at UK Recruiter looking at the effect social media has and how it can help you stay in touch with your contacts, generate leads and repeat business without explicitly advertising for the business. Offer your contacts valuable information and articles and they then trust you as a point of authority.

http://ukrecruiter.typepad.com/

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How to increase Linked In Optimization

Interesting article on how to make Linked In work for you.

http://www.therecruiterslounge.com/2012/05/07/a-guide-to-linkedin-profile-optimization/?goback=%2Enmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1

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10 Successful Recruitment Traits.

Some very insightful points. As ever feel free to comment.

http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/10-traits-of-a-successful-recruiter

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Recruiters: To Tweet or not to Tweet?

Interesting blog looking at some pitfalls social media may hold and what to do to avoid them. Throws up some interesting points for debate with regards to a companies social media policy.

http://thewrittenreference.com/2012/04/11/recruiters-to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet/

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