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LONDON, February 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

- Job site recognises how social networking is helping thousands attain employment

reed.co.uk, one of the UK's leading job sites, is advising thousands of jobseekers up and down the country to utilise and harness social media in their job searches, as the medium is now considered a useful way to bolster employability prospects.

It's widely acknowledged social media is becoming a powerful employability tool for both jobseekers and prospective employers. According to Jobvite, a recruitment software website, 50% of job seekers, now working in sales jobs, in 2010, admitted to using social networking giant Facebook to help look for a new job. A further 26% admitted to using LinkedIn, another leading social networking website, to build up career contacts and gain employment.

Looking at similar findings for a survey of people working in construction in 2011, the figures are far more conclusive of social media's growing popularity. Amongst employees working in construction jobs, 16% of those (who were surveyed by Jobvite) admitted to gaining their employment through social networking websites.

However despite the clear advantages social media platforms offer (wide networking opportunities, up-to-date job offerings, etc)  reed.co.uk claims many jobseekers are in fact oblivious to the fact many prospective employers now use social media to screen applicants.

A recent survey, carried out by social media monitoring service Reppler, found that more than 90% of recruiters and potential employers use or have used social networking websites as part of their employment screening process. Astonishingly 69% of recruiters admitted sleuthing a candidate's social networking profile and later rejecting their application based on the content they found.

However reed.co.uk's new social media guidance tips aim to teach jobseekers how to manage their social media profiles properly; limiting the chance of prospective employers finding content they may well dislike.

Commenting on social media's growing popularity amongst jobseekers, a spokesman from reed.co.uk said today:

"The days of printing stacks of C.Vs and handing them out personally to prospective employers are seemingly over. Social media, as a viable method to attaining employment, has emerged as the new 24/7 jobs fair, providing amazing ways to constantly stay on the radar of prospective employers."

To search a broad selection of jobs, visit http://www.reed.co.uk

About reed.co.uk:

reed.co.uk is the UK's leading online recruitment service, featuring over 110,000 jobs in Manchester, Birmingham and across the UK from more than 8,000 recruiters across 42 industry sectors.

reed.co.uk is the UK's most visited job site and was named by Experian Hitwise as the Number 1 website for Employment & Training sites throughout 2010 and between January and June 2011.

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Crockin' Girls Jenna Marwitz and Nicole Sparks (http://www.crockingirls.com), best friends and business partners who champion the slow-cook method for busy moms, launched a new web site late last month. The Crockin' Girls tapped Dallas-local website experts US Joomla Pros (http://www.usjoomlapros.com) to bring their vision of a friendly, open community to the Internet.

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Crockin' Girls Jenna Marwitz and Nicole Sparks, best friends and business partners who champion the slow-cook method for busy moms, launched a new web site late last month. The site is already on track to have 100,000 users with recipes and videos added daily, proving they have not only a savvy sense of what busy moms and cooks care about but their pulse on a simmering phenomenon.

The Crockin' Girls tapped Dallas-local website experts US Joomla Pros to bring their vision of a friendly, open community to the Internet. The web site allows their community to grow at an accelerated pace without being held back by technology or some of the inherent usability that rapid growth can sometimes bring.

Shawn & Scott Prendergast of US Joomla Pros helped deliver the Crockin' Girls website. Using the Joomla Content Management System, they have demonstrated how a solid knowledge of this system, social aspects of programming and interactive marketing could manifest this dream idea into reality. “Using key components in Joomla such as Community Builder and K2, plus understanding how Joomla, PHP and MySQL can come together made a site that can grow so quickly a reality,” Shawn said. “It's community-based sites like this one that require rapid growth out of the box, that really show how flexible and stable Joomla development can be,” Scott added. "We are pleased with marriage of solid idea and stable technology that make Crockingirls.com the success it promises to be."

ABOUT CROCKIN GIRLS

Best friends, business partners, and small-town girls Jenna Marwitz and Nicole Sparks are known to their many slow-cooking aficionados as the Crockin’ Girls.

A fun and fast way to post and share recipes with their family and friends quickly went viral, burgeoning into a highly trafficked website and widely “Liked” Facebook page. Their tagline, “Slow Cookin’ Mamas in a Fast-Paced World,” perfectly encapsulates their philosophy of helping busy folks spend less time in the kitchen and more time with their loved ones.

For information about the Crockin' Girls cookbooks, magazine, and other publishing inquiries, please email publishing(at)crockingirls.com

For media and appearance inquires, please email media(at)crockingirls(dot)com

ABOUT US JOOMLA PROS

US Joomla Pros has created a solid reputation by being one web and Joomla-focused company that does what we promise. We have relationships with clients that span years because we deliver on our promises and bring in work timely and at a reasonable cost.

Our team is made up of interactive marketing professionals that bring a unique perspective to your project. We are experts in online marketing strategy, information architecture, PHP and open source programming, CMS (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal) Customization, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing and Pay-Per-Click Advertising.

For more information, contact: Scott Prendergast scott(at)usjoomlapros(dot)com.

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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND--(Marketwire -02/14/12)- The 2012 Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC) and Expo, to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, is expecting a vast number of international guests, with participants travelling from the U.S., UK, Norway, Denmark, Italy, and further afield.

During this year's RIMC, the schedule will be spread over two tracks, mixing various topics on Internet communication and marketing, best practice tips, and Social Media techniques over one day.

Amongst the speakers already confirmed for RIMC 2012 include: Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble; Bill Hunt, Back Azimuth; Ben Chapman, BBC; Charles Dowd, Facebook; Brent D. Payne, Tribune/BaldSEO; Motoko Hunt, Adobe; Phil Greenwood, Microsoft, and Matt Neal of Bright Sparx.

For the first time, the Internet marketing conference will also be holding the miscellaneous 'Dark Sessions,' featuring Mikkel DeMib, Peter Van Der Graaf, and Fantomaster. This session will be focusing on the 'darker side' of Internet Marketing.

The Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC) is an essential networking tool for marketing and advertising people, web editors, sales and marketing managers, as well as directors of small and large businesses. The conference is also ideal for anyone who is interested in business on the Internet.

RIMC 2012 is to be held at the Hilton Nordica in Reykjavik, Iceland on 9th March.

For further information regarding RIMC 2012 and to be tickets, visit http://www.rimc.is/en.

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The Internet Marketing Party™ is scheduled for Thursday, February 16th at The Tap Room in Austin, TX. The keynote speaker for the event is Carl White of themarketinganimals.com, and is well known as the ultimate leverage guy. Hundreds of some of the most famous and successful marketers will be in attendance. The party is open to anyone wishing to attend.

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Carl White of themarketinganimals.com, well known as the ultimate leverage guy is the keynote speaker for the Internet Marketing Party™ in Austin, TX. Carl has become notorious for the fact that he takes email databases as small as 8,000 subscribers and is able to leverage them to the tune of $100,000 a month, and he's going to unveil how he does it to everyone in attendance (for the first time ever). The event is being held at The Tap Room on February 16, 2012 from 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm. After event parties will follow at various locations. Highly successful and well-known internet marketers from around the world will be in attendance. The first Internet Marketing Party™ in San Diego back in May 2011 was keynoted by the highest-paid marketing consultant in the world, Frank Kern, and over 400 internet marketers were in attendance from as far away as Australia and England.

David Gonzalez, Internet Marketing Party™ founder and event promoter has this to say, “Carl is sharing with the party goers in a ‘no pitch’ keynote presentation how to make money online using other people’s email list, other people’s products, and other people doing all the work.” David went on to say, “I expect the ‘who’s who’ of the internet marketing world to be in attendance. People will be meeting their mentors for the first time. And the networking opportunities are unlimited.”

The Internet Marketing Party™ is a place for Online Marketers, Entrepreneurs, and the Professionals who support them to meet regularly in an atmosphere of relaxed, cooperative sharing. The Internet Marketing Party™ was born because of a simple observation: At Internet Marketing industry seminars, conferences and workshops, the real business… and the relationships that lead to business deals were not happening in the seminar/conference room… the REAL deals are often initially made at the bar, over a few drinks.

The event pre registration fee is $19 or $29 the day of the event. Pre registration is required. Registration can be done by clicking this link REGISTER NOW.

David Gonzalez, founder of The Internet Marketing Party™ is available for comments and interviews.

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Millions of Iranians have suffered serious disruptions to email and social networking services, raising concerns authorities are stepping up censorship of opposition supporters ahead of parliamentary elections next month.

Iranians have grappled with increased obstacles to using the internet since opposition supporters used social networking sites to organise widespread protests after the disputed 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The government denied any fraud in the vote, which ignited street protests that were crushed violently by security services after eight months.

The country is preparing to hold parliamentary elections on March 2, the first time Iranians will go to the polls since President Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.

The new internet blockade affected the most common form of secure connections from Friday, according to outside experts and Iranian bloggers.

Traffic was said to have returned to normal on Monday.

"I haven't been able to open pages for days but now it's working again, although slowly," said Hamid Reza, a 20-year-old student in Tehran who was reluctant to give his surname.

The cut-off appeared to target all encrypted international websites outside Iran that depend on the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, which display addresses beginning with https, according to Earl Zmijewski of Renesys, a US company that tracks internet traffic worldwide.

Google, which uses SSL for its Gmail service, reported that traffic from Iran to its email system fell precipitously.

Iran's Ministry of Communications and Technology denied knowledge of the disruption.

"The government is testing different tools," said Hamed Behravan, who reports on Iranian technology issues for the US Government-funded Voice of America.

"They might have wanted to see the public reaction."

National internet system

Many Iranians are concerned the government may be preparing to unveil its much documented national internet system, effectively giving the authorities total control over what content Iranian users will be able to access.

The authorities say it is designed to speed up the system and filter out sites that are regarded as "unclean".

"The internet is an uninvited guest which has entered our country," said Mohammad Reza Aghamiri, a member of the Iranian government's Internet filtering committee.

"Because of [the internet's] numerous problems, severe supervision is required."

He told the daily Arman that internet search engines like Google were a threat to the country.

"We have never considered Google as appropriate to serve Iranian users, because Google is at the service of the CIA," he said. "It has adopted a vivid hostile stance against us."

Iranian authorities have vowed to quell any public protest against the protracted house arrest last year of opposition Green movement leaders, Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi.

"It could just be a coincidence but my guess is that the system was looking to block communication between opposition supporters," said an Iranian analyst who did not want to be named.

The disruption has riled some Iranian members of parliament and they have vowed to look for those responsible.

An MP, Ahmad Tavakoli, told the semi-official Mehr News Agency that the issue was creating widespread discontent that could "cost the establishment dearly".

"This filtering leads people to break the law, and using proxies makes the blocking of sites and signals ineffective, because using proxies becomes widespread," he said.

Authoritarian Arab governments under popular pressure have sought to shut down Internet service to make it harder for opponents to mobilise protests but with little success.

(Additional reporting by Joseph Menn in San Francisco; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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