readings in social media and pr for december 28 2010

Here's to a Wonderful 2011 for all!

Here are a few stories I liked for today! :

• social media jobs in demand

“For job seekers who tweet, tag, and text, there’s something to “like” about this mostly dreary job market: a rise in social media jobs.Three times as many jobs with “social media” in the title were indexed in November by Indeed.com, a search engine for jobs, compared with a year ago. That’s nearly 1,220 job openingslast month compared with nearly 400 in November 2009.”

• cyber crime targets for 2011

“McAfee is forecasting that social media platforms, mobile devices and Apple products will be the focus of cybercriminals in 2011. The Santa Clara-based tech security company said location-based services such as Foursquare, as well as popular social media sites like Twitter and URL-shortening websites, will be targeted by online thieves and hackers in its annual McAfee Threat Predictions report released Tuesday.”

• social media predictions

“Tim Ferriss is an angel investor (Twitter, StumbleUpon, Evernote, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek. In his spare time, Tim has doctors stab pen-sized needles into his thighs. Ah, social media marketing. Fewer things are so lavishly spent on, yet so poorly measured.”