Tag: web 2.0

Yahoo! launches Kickstart to target students and alumni

yahoo-kickstart.jpgYahoo! has entered the social networking business kicking and starting with Kickstart, a site that seems to want to bridge the fun of Facebook with the more grown-up, careerist aspects of LinkedIn. Kickstart’s stated purpose is “to connect college students, recent grads, professionals and alumni to discover internships and jobs, or get career advice and mentorship.” Karine Joly (of collegewebeditor.com) recently interviewed Scott Gatz, who manages the Kickstart team.

Kickstart is also offering $25,000 to the university that can sign up the most members by Dec. 31 — a move that will benefit the big schools. And already, a few big schools have signed up.

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Friday Five: not that you asked, but…

The Internet is full of unsolicited advice. Some of it is even useful. Here are five bits of counsel that may interest you:

  1. For writers: Five easy steps to editing your own work, by Anna Goldsmith of The Hired Pens, guest blogging at CopyBlogger.
  2. For marketers struggling with ROI of social media: Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent offers some ideas about measurement as part of a marketing meme making the rounds.
  3. For communicators, marketers, history buffs and closet socialists: FutureLab offers a lesson in mass communications with Soviet Propaganda – The Art of Mass Persuasion. Posted by Ilya Vedrashko on Thursday, the 90th anniversary of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution, it features Vedrashko’s slide show of images that “showcase some of the tools and techniques used by the Soviet AgitProp (agitation and propaganda) as well as other governments, democratic and otherwise, and how some of the imagery was borrowed by brand marketers.” Makes you wonder who really won the cold war.
  4. For web designers and managers: Sam Jackson’s take on why college and university web sites don’t make the grade.
  5. For alumni relations folks: Andy Shaindlin (alumni futures) introduces a new Facebook group just for you.

Bonus link: discovered later but for everyone — be they writers, editors, designers, marketers, bosses, bureaucrats, teachers, students … anyone and everyone: 10 Simple, Sure-fire Ways to Make Today Your Best Day Ever. Just gloss over the metaphysical portions if you like (although I recommend reading the whole thing). If you don’t read it today, read it before you go to work on Monday.

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