Twitter #SMIR and Nick Clegg
Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by admin in 2010 Conference
At the time of writing this post it was exacty a week ago that I opened the 2010 Social Media In Recruitment Conference in London.
We have had some great feedback about the Conference and what I found interesting was the number of conversations that were going on before, during and after the Conference on Twitter.
At 9:51am (just after the Conference started) Bill Fischer from TwitJobSearch (who was following the Conference from his office in London) tweeted:
I managed to take a look at Twitter during the coffee break and sure enough #SMIR was in the top 10 trending topics for London (the results were in real time). At the time I looked #SMIR was number three just behind #NickClegg at number two!
I asked Bill for his comments the day after the Conference and he said "This is a sign that recruitment has embraced social media: In London, the Twitter capital of the world, the Social Media in Recruitment conference was one of the 10 hottest trending topics just behind Nick Clegg on the day of big debate. As the conference had about 250 delegates, this would indicate that there was wide-spread interest in the event beyond the conference itself."
Research
The day after the Conference I then searched Twitter for #NickClegg and came across this tweet from @SocialFuel
It was interesting to see that they were monitoring the performance of Gordon Brown, David Camerson and Nick Clegg across the social media space so I spoke with Lisa at Social Fuel and she very kindly did some research for me about the performance of #SMIR during the day.
You can see her findings here: http://www.socialmediainrecruitment.com/SMIR-Twitter.pdf
My thanks go to Bill for highighting that #SMIR was a trending topic on Twitter and to Lisa for doing the research.
Mike Taylor
