Geoff Peterson, Managing Principal for General Lead, delivered a super webinar for hundreds of CollegeRecruiter.com employer clients on January 15, 2009 on Twitter: Emerging Online Community for Recruiters and Sourcers. There were a few minor sound problems with the webinar but Geoff's content and manner of delivery were well worth putting up with the minor annoyances.

Did you miss the presentation? Want to watch it again? In this 60-minute webinar, we learned how Twitter is taking recruiting to a whole new level. Geoff fully demonstrated Twitter, walked through it's search capabilities and demonstrated how to build a "following" which benefits recruiters as they promote open positions and search for active and passive job seekers. Geoff also showed backdoor tips and tricks of using other sites and reviewed how recruiters and sourcers can use them to begin building relationships within online communities. Among the valuable takeaways for this interactive seminar were:

• Learned how to utilize Twitter to recruit and source candidates;
• Discovered a fast-growing social networking community online;
• Found active and passive candidates who "live" online;
• Learned how to grow your Twitter networks in seconds; and
• Uncovered hundreds of "leads" in the Twitter community.