Search William Roth on Google and you can learn all about the late Senator from Delaware, whom the Roth IRA is named after. The problem is that William Roth is my name too – and I don’t show up until page 2, or Goo. People in social media need to have a front page presence [...]
witter users needed a way to sift through and organize the millions of tweets out there. They came up with using the # symbol, which they call a hash-tag, to group similar tweets. Do a search in Twitter for #Job in and you will start to see real-time updates of job listings and tips from around the world. Search #job #socialmedia or #job Georgia in Twitter and you will start to understand how to sift through job tweets yourself. This concept is exactly like tagging a photo of your friends in Facebook. (Pro tip: You can also get these search results sent to your RSS reader by clicking RSS feed for this query located on the right sidebar of the search results page.)
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Basically it boils down a webpage to it’s elements, like text and title, and removes all the unneccesary fat, like pictures and ads. Then an RSS reader like Google Reader takes the pages whose RSS feeds you have subscribed to, and it searches for new content. Every time you visit your Google Reader you will see new content, like new job listings in your search queary, pour in like they were emails.
