SAS Knowledge & Insight

LinkedIn is expected to announce a new social news product this week

List of "most social" brands, complete with rating and methodology

A nice deck from our friend Tom at Trendstream, looking at the current worldwide social media usage stats and emerging usage patterns:

NHS does a great job with discussion and response on this campaign sight dedicated to attracting young students. 

Recruiting is marketing, and human resources needs to partner with marketing and technology, and get on board with the new communications revolution - short and sweet, where talent wants it, how talent wants it, and when talent wants it. To truly find the best people, human resources is going to have to hunt down the right candidates and capture them with content. Be the mobile bot that feeds them what they need and entices them to join your team - and start today.

Evidence of the value of branding from the inside out

Whether or not BMW were actually behind this (I don't think they were), it's brilliant. Emotionally-connected advertising at it's best.

The first market in the US to introduce NFC payment systems

The first market in the US to introduce NFC payment systems

More and more as companies think of new ways to compete in the war for talent - and as they adjust to create shared value of their communities and their people - we'll see them partnering with industry organisations, schools and universities to breed new talent. 

"Data show that fully networked enterprises are not only more likely to be market leaders or to be gaining market share, but also use management practices that lead to margins higher than those of companies using the Web in more limited ways." To help you create the social network your company needs to thrive, ask yourself these five questions from your employees' perspective:

Survey on Recruitment Finds Return of War for Talent and Skills Gaps in UK London - June 16 Employers are being inundated with unsuitable candidates and struggling to fill vacancies, and talented individuals are staying put, concluding that the grass is greener on their own side of the fence in these volatile economic times. These are the findings from the annual Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Resourcing and Talent Planning survey, produced in partnership with Hays.

Awesome resource of healthcare-related SM communities

"It could offer some serious competition to Facebook's Open Graph on sites that cater to the career-minded..."

New mobile phone app called Color. I'm interested to see how far it will go...

Google have launched a tool that helps you manage search results for your name.

Some of the ways employers screen out potential employees are inefficient, ineffective, and even immoral.

The Hay Group research with Economist Intelligence Unit