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These days social media is creeping into all areas of our lives, from our friendships to our job, which is why the traditional paper resume is no longer relevant. Today your resume needs an update to fit with this new social lifestyle.

TalentBin is a new service that claims to make referral recruiting easy, by compiling the contacts of everyone in your company into one pooled referral network.

Join us in our online conference and workshop, Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, starting September 27, where you'll learn how to use Google+, Foursquare, Tumbler, and other emerging social media platforms to increase your business. Speakers include Gretchen Rubin (left), Justin Smith, and David Meerman Scott. Register now.

Our Social Times PRO team has been hard at work putting together the two latest PRO reports for our business-minded users out there, and I have to say that there are a ton of valuable insights in each of these.  I’m of course biased, but I can safely say that getting involved with Social Times [...]

When LivingSocial’s purchase of Ticket Monster is sanctioned, the social shopping platform will be operating in 23 countries. LivingSocial is in part owned by Amazon and already has a foothold in Asia. In June the company purchased Ensogo and DealKeren, creating a strong presence in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Guest blogger Suzanne McDonald asks, “Are we still in the ‘Mad Men’ era, simply sanitized of workplace sex, cigs and drinks?” When it comes to pay equity based on gender, her answer is, sadly, that we are.

After the jump, how the role of women in social and other media is — and is not — changing.

Yesterday Vimeo launched a new service designed for small businesses. Vimeo Pro is slated to compete with services like Sprout, Viddler and Google Apps Business Video to bring small businesses an “insanely affordable” alternative to video hosting.

newBrandAnalytics is an enterprise-grade suite of industry-tailored Social Business Intelligence solutions designed to help organizations listen to, understand and take action on customer feedback across social and traditional media to increase and sustain customer loyalty, profits and market share.

After the jump — what you need to know about newBrandAnalytics

Pat Gotham won a contest sponsored by Affect, a communications agency based in New York City. In this guest post, Pat describes how social media got him the internship, as well as the role social media is playing in his summer in the Big Apple.

Watch this video to learn how you can turn your highly regulated company into a social media marketing powerhouse!

Brands of all sizes are struggling to find their social media “voices” to meaningfully participate in the conversations surrounding their brands and industries. They want sales — not just engagement — and rightfully so.

The free download offers a model that sits comfortably with legacy business activities and charts best practices for social media marketing and sales.

Check out these 11 insights on companies that aren’t even public yet. The slideshow brings the numbers to life!