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Social Business Design. Social media marketing. Twitter. Social Media 101. Social Media Policy. Privacy. Why Bookmarking is Obsolete. Opinion June 19, 2010 07:00 AM ET Computerworld - Since the Web first came online in 1991, it has grown and improved beyond anyone's predictions.
How to Evaluate Social Media Street Cred. You may or may not have heard that Best Buy, when recently announcing they were hiring a director of emerging media listed a requirement that qualified applicants have a minimum of 250 + followers on Twitter.
This launched a flurry of debate specific to this one issue, but the bigger issue as we've discussed here before is that organizations are increasingly looking for individuals who can not only fit into their corporate culture—but also poses a DEEP knowledge in all things related to social business. And let's face it, organizations are faced with a huge challenge here because there are probably millions of candidates who proclaim they are experts, thousands which actually know what they are doing, and only hundreds globally which both know what they are doing AND can actually plug into your corporate ecosystem without breaking it.
Date Of Participation Like the Best Buy example shows, organizations are grappling with how they should qualify candidates.