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Amanda Hite, Founder of Talent Revolution, Change Agent, and Social Media Strategist is on a mission. She’s made a pledge, and she wants us to join her.

PLEDGE WITH US:

“I believe that no child in America should go hungry. By pledging today, I add my voice to the national movement of people committed to ending childhood hunger in America by 2015.”
http://nokidhungry.org/

She challenges us to do what Mahatma Ghandi suggests, “Become the change you want to see in the world.” Her #BeTheChange movement has gone viral around the web.

Hite is a SexyThinker, which is how she is known as on Twitter. I had the pleasure of meeting her in 2009 at the first HRevolution unconfernce. She wowed us then, and she wows us now. She’s learned how to make brand evangelism fun, and profitable for organizations. She ties it all together with a feel good message. Amanda and her team create social media campaigns that empower employees to be brand agents, and created an accountability element.

Doing good equals doing well. Doing good deeds can be woven into an organization’s corporate communication strategy. Employees engaged in philanthropic activities have higher productivity, lower rates of absenteeism, work more effectively on teams. According to my research, organizations that engage their employees, and empower then to have time off to participate in a charitable activity as a team have higher employee employee retention rates which decreases the cost of hire. Employee attrition is expensive to an organization. Service learning, strategic philanthropy, and corporate responsibility also increases brand awareness, engages customers, and can help make a social media campaign go viral.

We know that compassionate human resources feels good, random acts of kindness feels even better. Amanda Hite supported the concept behind “Random Packs of Kindness.” Cinnabon is a compassionate company. Check out this video, Random Packs Of Kindnes:

She showed a an organization “Lastin” how to create a tweet hub. Check this out:

It’s brilliant. Create a contest to audition your internal brand agents, show them how to generate buzz on Twitter, and then turn them loose to convert their followers into brand agents too.

http://lastin.thetweethub.com/index.php

If that isn’t cool enough…Amanda challenged her Twitter followers and friends to raise 5,000 in one day, and if she did, she’d dress up like Barbie, and surprise us all. No doubt Hite’s got the moves like Jaggar. If this doesn’t make you laugh, and jump for joy nothing will. Fact is, she’s pretty hot in a shocking pink mini…and can dance better than most people I know. Here’s how she set it up on YouTube:

“The deal was you raise $5,000 on Twitter in 1 Day for #ServeHope (Global Hope Network and Share Our Strength) and I do a video blog in a pink dress!”

Now you know why I simply had to interview her on Compassionate HR. The BlogrtalkRadio Show can be heard right here. Just click on the tab, Compassionate HR at the top of the screen.

Amanda Hite can be reached here:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/sexythinker
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amandahite
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmandaEHite
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ahite14?feature=mhee

Be The Change Influencers: http://bethechangeinfluencers.com/
Changers of Commerce: http://changersofcommerce.com/
Talent Revolution: http://www.talentrevolution.net/
Blog: http://sexythinker.wordpress.com/

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Via Scoop.it – Social Media And Digital Influence

Mashable’s weekly feature showcases some of the top comments from our community members. I am both humbled, and honored to make it on “The Top 8 Comments Of The Week”
Via mashable.com

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Via Scoop.it – Social Media And Digital Influence

Every now and then you have the privilege of meeting a kindred spirit in your industry.  Truly, that is what Cyndy is to me.  She’s my colleague, my confidant, and my friend.  Cyndy and I met on Twitter (where I’ve met most of my dearest colleagues).  Last week, she interviewed me for her industry website, NasRecruitment.  It was an honor, and a pleasure to be interviewed by Cyndy.  In this post, we discussed the importance of social media, and why Corporate America must embrace it.  I now give you, Cyndy. I’d appreciate it if you’d leave a comment for Cyndy.  It will make her day!

Via nastalenttalk.com

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Mobile or Noble? You Can Be Both!

You don’t have to be noble to go mobile.  On the other hand some people think they are too noble to go mobile.  Mobile apps for job search, you can love them, you can hate them, but they aren’t going away.  Tonight I spent most of the evening digging into the Facebook Apps Chachinko, Beknown, and BranchOut. Monster, and Career Builder have mobile apps, as do big corporations like Starbucks, and AT&T.  I wanted to test just a few.  I downloaded LinkUp and played with the Indeed Mobile App on my iPhone.  I built out my networks, beefed up my Google+ connections, linked it all to my smart phone.  Then I spent a chunk of time testing these apps.  Here’s what I found.

LinkUp is my favorite mobile job app because it leads you ONLY to jobs posted by companies.  No spam, just jobs, good jobs at that. It’s on my iPhone, and I like a lot.

Beyond.com is an iPhone app that allows you to surf jobs at lightening speed.  I was really bothered by the push Ads you had to scroll through to see jobs. (Not cool, but I guess they have to pay for it somehow). I also noticed their jobs were not current.

Indeed is a great aggregator, and the jobs on their mobile app are easy to access.  The iPhone app works great, it’s smooth, and simple to navigate.  You can easily email jobs to yourself if your resume isn’t saved on your smartphone for distribution.  Indeed had the largest database for social media jobs, and I was impressed.

Mashable is an amazing app, particularly if you want to find out about jobs in social media, and the digital space.

LunchMeet is one of my new favorite mobile apps, you can contact any of your LinkedIn contacts, and set up lunch, or coffee meetings with a few clicks on your mobile phone.  Very smart indeed.

Chachinko lured me into applying for a very cool position that sent me to a spam site where in order to apply for a job, I  had to sign up for an ‘educational assessment.’  In other words, it’s was spam.  I reported it on their Facebook page.  That’s the fun part of being a cyber sleuth and checking out the jobs these apps lead you to-it’s hit or miss…but as a secret shopper, I’m often surprised that the newer mobile and Facebook job apps aren’t more careful. Chachinko is the new kid on the block, and they are going through growing pains.  It’s still worthwhile to check them out on Facebook.

Talent.me is in my top 5. As a social media recruiter, I love it because it is easy to find people, as a job seeker, I love it because the profile buildout is robust, and the ability to shine on that Facebook App is great.  A lot of recruiters are watching this one, so get on it.  Make sure you profile on this (or any App is 100% complete).

BeKnown is much cooler than I originally thought.  I had fun building my network, recommending my friends, and their jobs looked pretty good.  Downloading it to my iPhone was easy, and fun.

BranchOut has a lot of potential.  They are on the right track.  I like the way they connect people, and relevant networks. They have  1 million monthly users.  Not too shabby.  (I’m also partial because they recently hosted an HFChat on Twitter). You can import your resume. Watch it because when it imported mine, it eliminated my recent jobs, and aggregated my experience under the oldest job on my resume.  I  opted to cut and paste my LinkedIn summary instead. Sometimes you have to tweak your strategy.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be watching the mobile, and Facebook job app world, as I’m giving three presentations in Jan/Feb.  I’ll keep you posted about what I find.

I purposely didn’t link back to all these apps until my research is finish, but it’s easy enough to find them yourself, just search any of the above mentioned in the App store on your smartphone, or on Facebook.

Happy hunting,

Margo

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