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By Rachel Glickhouse I “met” Eline Kullock through a social networking site. She asked me to write a guest post for the blog. I found Eline to be extremely interesting, intelligent, and a hard worker (she is the President of Grupo Foco in Sao Paulo). So here I am, “guest blogging…” People like to talk [...]

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by Ludmilla Figueiredo Google Maps helps me reach my destination. I put together a nostalgic photo album on Flickr. I call to my sister, who has locked herself in her room, while chatting on MSN. I share news through messages that contain a lot of exclamations (revealing my state of extreme happiness or sometimes expressing [...]

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Inês Schinazi New York City. Underground morning rush, headphones glued to every pair of earlobes in sight. Stuck waiting for the next train. It’s like a silent film, except this time the live music plays in our heads. It can be whatever we want it to be. Personalized soundtrack. While we imagine the inner dialogue, [...]

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The new website “Unithrive” aims to match Harvard students in financial need, with Harvard alumni who are willing to make interest free loans to support these students in their educational pursuits. What makes Unithrive particularly interesting is that most of this “social networking” “lending” and “borrowing” will most likely take place between different generations. Most [...]

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- Hi Honey, how are you? Look, I need to know how to add a friend on “Orkut.” – Dad you are going to need to access that person’s profile. So just click here. – OK. I’m on their profile page. Now what? – Now, you click on the menu and to the left side [...]

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When your boss comes near you, do you have to get off MSN?  Can you only tweet after work?  Is Facebook blocked at the office? If you live in this type of world, then I am an alien.  Believe it or not, I recently joined my first social network, (Orkut) because I was practically forced [...]

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I’m extremely happy to find out that Grupo Foco is the first business in Brazil to conduct job recruitment processes through social media.  We do this for our own team as well as for our clients. Our team navigates through countless social networks (Blog, Twitter, Linked In, and Orkut, among many others) until we find [...]

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Lately, I’ve come across a lot of articles that attempt to teach Generation Y how to behave. There are tips about almost everything. From interviews, to jobs, to cyber space etiquette, there are all sorts of “do’s” and “Don’ts.” This is especially true regarding online social networks, where a whole bundle of rules apply. On [...]

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