Social Media is changing the way people do business; it's changing the world of recruitment and it's changing how we find love.In the book Social Media Networking, including twenty case studies, Tim Lewis discovers how people are using social media to get ahead in their lives and in their businesses.A recent US labor report showed that of jobs recruited for in the US, 40% are never advertised and given to someone the recruiter knows, and of the rest of the jobs half are given to someone the recruiter already knows after a recruitment process of interviews. So how do you get the recruiter to know you? Social Media is one new way that people are using.On a wider level people are finding ideal romantic partners from connections initially made on social media.Many journalists use social media to find people to be interviewed about news stories giving free publicity to those businesses that are aware of this.Learning how to make connections on social media opens up a whole new world of opportunities for networking to make powerful connections to supercharge your business and your personal life.This book takes you through all these stories and extracts the important lessons for people looking to use this new networking power to improve their own lives.
Timothy Michael Lewis is a London-based author. He spent 18 years working as a computer programmer and IT manager in the world of financial IT. In 2011, the death of his wife after a long illness made him reassess his life goals. He decided that he wanted to write stories, especially in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Coming from an interest in screen-writing, his writing style is a fast-moving concise style of short action-packed books.
This book is part guide, part case study, and thoroughly interesting.
The author intersperses his own advice for using social media to grow your business, find friends, find a job and even find love online, with interviews with his friends and colleagues who share how social media helped them succeed.
Having been fortunate enough to meet some of the interviewees in this book myself, I was fascinated to read their stories. Interesting, sometimes moving, they all demonstrate how social media can be used to help you achieve your goals.
The book concludes with some chapters on the authors advice for using Social Media, based on his own research and the interviews.
A uniquely interesting book that will be of value to anyone who wants a different perspective on how to use Social media for personal and professional growth.
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Tim Lewis does a great job of sharing stories and real world examples of how social media has helped people achieve success in business and in life through social media interactions. Tim also explains ways to get started and help you grow your network. I actually have met the author and became friends with him prior to this book because of the power of social media networking.