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Social Responsibility's Strategic Benefits
December 15, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
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Working With and Communicating to Your Board of Directors
January 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
CIO panelists who will share tips and experiences working with their boards: Twila Day of SYSCO; Jeff O'Hare, West Corp.; Marc West, formerly with H&R Block.
IT's Role in Growing Mid-Market Companies
January 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET (GMT-5)
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Spies Recruiting on Facebook, Report Says
Britain's M16 launches series of Facebook ads looking for operational officers.
September 30, 2008 — Computerworld — Could the next James Bond be found on Facebook? Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, hopes so. The agency has launched a series of advertisements this month to recruit employees, according to a report in Britain's The Guardian newspaper on Monday.
MI6, which operates networks of agents in foreign countries, confirmed in the report that Facebook is one of a number of public channels it's using as a recruiting tool.
Three advertisements for MI6 pop up when users communicate with one another, the paper went on to note. One proclaims, "Graduates of all ages can develop long-term careers as operational officers, collecting and analyzing global intelligence."
Another asks "A career in world events? Help influence world events, protect the UK. Operational officer roles collecting and analyzing global intelligence."
A video on the Facebook MI6 site provides an overview of the administrator roles available at the organization and provides an online test of an applicant's skills.
Nick O'Neill, a blogger at All Facebook, said that the strategy could theoretically provide extremely targeted advertisements for recruiting foreign nationals as well.
"Thanks to Facebook's extremely high profile-targeting capabilities, recruiters have jumped on the opportunity to promote new jobs," he added. "Companies have been testing out Facebook's targeting capabilities over the past year, but many have said that it is still challenging to spend a lot of money on the ad platform. One advertisement that probably didn't experience low click-thru rates was MI6's advertisement to be come a spy for the agency."
Facebook in August quietly launched a new type of advertisement designed to help advertisers to profit from the treasure trove of demographic data and other information it gathers from its members.
The new, so-called engagement advertisements encourage Facebook users to interact with ads by leaving comments or sharing virtual gifts with other members.
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