real world sourcing

REAL WORLD SOURCING

Katharine Robinson

@TheSourceress

8th February 2011

Would go on to become the global Twestival Charity event!

HARVEST TWESTIVAL - SEPT 2008

Images by @benjaminellis

A PLETHORA OF EVENTS!

FINDING EVENTS •  Look for events popular on Twitter

•  Lanyrd •  Tweetvite •  twtvite

•  LinkedIn Events

•  Search Engines – especially good for big conferences and expos

•  Industry Associations

•  Industry Publications

•  Event Management Sites •  Eventbrite – e.g. Only Marketing Jobs •  Amiando

•  Facebook

KEY TOOLS

TWITTER

• Identify new people that you would like to meet • Discover new events

• Follow events as they happen

LINKEDIN

• Stay in touch with the people you meet

• Learn more about the people you’ve met

• Harness the networks of your new contacts

• Discover new events

DISCOVERING PEOPLE - TWITTER

People from Industry

Local People

Recruiters/Sourcers

Great Connectors

Find more people: •  Who do they follow? •  Who have they listed? •  How are they listed?

NOW GO MEET THEM

I’ve met twitter (and other interesting) folks at;

•  Work

•  Tweetups •  Conferences

•  Exhibitions

•  Random Coffees

•  On the train

CONNECT ON LINKEDIN •  LinkedIn helps you stay on the radar of people you meet

by

•  Updating your status •  Being active •  Giving you an easy way to get in touch with them

•  LinkedIn helps you meet more people by

•  Allowing you to discover events popular with your network and go along to those

•  Letting Event organisers create groups for networking opportunities before and after the event.

NETWORKING ON THE MOVE – AT EVENTS •  23% of my tweets come from my phone.

•  You can email photos taken on your phone to the likes of Twitpic and Posterous.

•  LinkedIn has apps for iPhone, Blackberry and PalmPre as well as its mobile site.

•  Have you tried Foursquare for discovering other people at the same venues you are?

WHEN YOU CAN’T BE THERE This is when Twitter comes into it’s own!

•  #hashtags

•  Twitterfall

•  Twitter Search •  Tweetdeck

•  Hootsuite

Who’s blogging?

•  Google blog search •  Social Mention

•  IceRocket

RESOURCES - TWITTER

Find Lists: http://tlists.com

Manage Lists: http://formulists.com How To use Lists from Twitter

Find People: http://followerwonk.com http://wefollow.com

Follow hashtags: http://search.twitter.com http://twitterfall.com http://wthashtag.com

Manage Twitter: http://tweetdeck.com (desktop app) http://hootsuite.com (in browser) http://cotweet.com (in browser)

Mobile twitter: http://dabr.co.uk (great if you don’t have a smart phone)

Great UK Folks to Follow: @UKSourcers (me) @andyheadworth @James_Mayes @lesanto

RESOURCES – FIND EVENTS Event Management sites:

http://eventbrite.com http://amiando.com http://eventelephant.com

What events are your network attending? Twitter: http://lanyrd.com LinkedIn: http://events.linkedin.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events

Social Event Planning: Plancast: http://plancast.com/ Twtvite: http://twtvite.com/ Tweetvite: http://tweetvite.com/

RESOURCES – GETTING HELP Search Engines: http://googleguide.com

http://searchengineland.com/guide/bing

Twitter: Mashable’s guide:http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/

Twitter’s guide for businesses: http://business.twitter.com/

LinkedIn: http://learn.linkedin.com/

ANY QUESTIONS?

EMAIL: [email protected] TWITTER: @TheSourceress QUORA: http://www.quora.com/Katharine-Robinson

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