Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites - MakeUseOf.com. Jakub Petrykowski blog. Technology News. Nir and Far. The 5 Fastest Growing Social Media Skills on LinkedIn. If you’ve been on LinkedIn lately, you might have noticed that you can add keywords that describe your skills and expertise to your profile. It’s a great way to help prospective employers find your name in the search results, especially when your job title doesn’t fully capture your essence. Here are some of the social media-related skills that have taken off in the last year: 1. Social Media Monitoring – 52% growth year-over-year Primary Industry: Public Relations and Communications“A media monitoring service provides clients with documentation, analysis, or copies of media content of interest to the clients. This is the 25th fastest growing skill on LinkedIn. 2. Primary Industry: Marketing and Advertising“Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques.
This general term is the 86th most popular skill on LinkedIn and also the 49th fastest growing. 3. 4. 5. The 5 Myths Of Building A Great Mobile Team. Editor’s note: As the Web goes mobile, every Web company needs to build mobile products. Author Elad Gil, director of Geo at Twitter, has a lot of experience in that area. Way before selling his company Mixer Labs to Twitter last year, he kickstarted Google’s mobile efforts back in 2004, when Google’s mobile team “consisted of 1/4 of an engineer dedicated to maintaining an old WAP search server on the brink of collapse.” Gil pulled Google’s first mobile team together, recruited the first engineers, started discussions with carriers, and was involved in Google’s early mobile acquisitions which set the stage for Google Mobile Maps and Android.
In this guest post, he shares what he learned. Note that Elad works at Twitter but the following piece reflects his view only and does not represent Twitter’s thoughts or strategy. Myth 1: You need to hire mobile experts.Reality: Hire great athletes; mobile “experts” will be useless in 6 months a. Expand the pool of potential people you can hire. B. Mobile Posts by Howard Rheingold. TechCrunch.