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How can companies adopt Digital Age working practices and maintain a path to ‘Digirati’?

Do you know if you pack an online punch? You should. Because it’s likely that plenty of other people know exactly where you stand.

Social media is often seen as just a channel for organisations to build their corporate brand with the ultimate goal being to generate more leads and in turn more sales. But social media can also play an essential role in many other facets of the business, including building your company’s employer brand, and in essence making you a hot ticket when it comes to attracting talent. There are a number of ways in which an organisation can lift their employer brand in order to get more candidates knocking at their door. Here are my top 5 suggestions of where social media can drive results.

Recruiters and prospective employers are increasingly using social media in their processes. Maybe you don’t take social media too seriously, but how you approach it is somewhat irrelevant - if people are considering investing in you, there’s a good chance they’re going to type your name into Google. And as with the victims of this prank, there may be info there that you really don’t want to be sharing with the public. Here are some tips to help you sharpen up your online presence.

The number of people online has doubled since 2007. There are 2.55 billion people online and 91% of those use social or mobile networks. That’s an awe-inspiring number, but it’s just the start of a steep trajectory. Just as you’ve never lived in a world without cars and think of the horse-and-cart as quaint, so billions have never lived without hyper-connection. Would you tether a horse to a cart? Take it to a meeting across town? Could you even do so if you wanted to? No I imagine. So why do we expect others will want to connect with us on antiquated systems?

What can you do to make sure your Social Self is helping you get a job and not scaring off prospective employers? Check out our 6 Social Media Job Hunting Tips to make sure that you’re getting a competitive advantage using social media.

10 easy things you can do to improve your personal brand online

There will come a time I'm sure that if you can't be found online, you won't 'exist' in a professional sense. We're not at that point yet but it's certainly a path we're heading down.

These are confusing times for brands, and the people charged with growing them. On the one hand, we need to ensure the ROI of everything, while on the other we must pursue constant innovation. We need to be open to new technologies, platforms, and networks, but we can’t spread our investments too thinly. We’ve got to stay on brand and on message, but we also need to go viral. These competing ambitions make it very difficult for marketers and agencies to make intelligent choices for their brands - but it is largely our own fault. As an industry, marketing is particularly susceptible to ‘the shiny new object’ syndrome and, after attending SXSW interactive in Austin, Texas, I’m predicting that we’re about to start chasing after two diametrically-opposed aims yet again.