I have been working on Resume Forensics 2.0 (Are you on my update list?) and coming up with lots of neat tools and tricks. Well, one of my discoveries is the search engine – Summize.
What makes Summize cool is that is a search engine for Tweets. Here are a few things I have been using it for.
1. Looking for software developers (aka Geeks) skilled in Ruby on Rails. I simply type in key terms “ruby rails” and (as shown by the screenshot below) I discover a list of Tweeters who are discussing Ruby on Rails. (Go figure…) So what do I do at that point? Simply send them a message directly and say, “Hey, I say you discussing Ruby on Rails. What a coinkydink, I have a job for a Ruby on Rails geek. Can we talk?”
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2. Now let’s say I want to look for Java Developers, but only those located in Atlanta. Not a problem! I use the search operator “near” to restrict my results to those Twits who have cited their location as being in Atlanta. This is what I typed: near:Atlanta java.
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3. Let’s say that I am looking for geeks skilled in Semantic Technology. Well, to shake things up a bit, I try a different strategy. I pop over to Google and do a search for 2008 Conferences dealing with Semantic Search and come up with the 2008 Semantic technology Conference. (Screenshot below)
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I then begin to wonder, hmm… “I wonder how many people are Tweeting about this conference?” So I do a search and find 2 pages of results (at least at this writing).
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A quick skim of the results shows me that there are quite a few people excited about going. Most likely, these are people I may want to recruit? Pretty nifty huh? (Smile)
If you like this type of thing, be sure to register for Moises Lopez’ Webinar, “Unlock The Secret Formula for Sourcing Success.” You will get a lot of goodness out of the things out of it! And oh, if you would, follow me on Twitter!
My Twitter Blog: www.twitter.com/jimstroud
Happy Hunting!
Jim Stroud
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Hi Jim,
I really want to thank you for all your hard work and someday hope we can meet. You inspire me to be a better researcher! Thank you.
P.S. the word summarize is mis-spelled in the beginning of your post, thought you might wanted to know. Cheers – Kay Kelison
Kay,
Thank you for the kudos!
-Jim
You really do a great job… hats off! In response to the spelling of summize. It’s spelled like the search engine name. Another great tool to add to our toolbox.
Jim,
I like your style, but can you keep all these cool tips a secret so others don’t find out
. Twitter & other such tools are a goldmine for passive candidates.
Ok I’ll share another tip for you.
Most tech conferences now days have a tag which all content produced tagged with to make it easy to find content. On Twitter folks have also begun using hashtags to indicate the discussion going on at the conference. So search for #ConferenceTag and you get all of the gossip. For example over the last couple of weeks we have had a new media conference in Australia called PubCamp, the hashtag was #pubcamp, pop that into Summize and you get the full run down of everyone discussing the conference. http://summize.com/search?q=%23pubcamp The trick is to know the hashtag.
Hey Jim,
Yes, Summize is an awesome tool (as are a few others)- however: I wasn’t aware you could message people directly. Don’t you have to follow them and then have to follow you back in order to Direct Message them? Just curious to see if I am out in left field….