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This week, Vimeo is hiring a director of support and community, while the World Bank needs a social media specialist. Babble is seeking a blog and social media coordinator, and Grand Communications is on the hunt for a social media and administrative assistant. Get all the details below, and find more social media gigs on mediabistro.com.

• Director, Support & Community Vimeo (New York, NY)
• Social Media Specialist World Bank (Washington, DC)
• Blog & Social Media Coordinator Babble (New York, NY)
• Social Media & Administrative Assistant Grand Communications (New York, NY)
• Editorial Assistant/Social Media Specialist The Build Network (New York, NY)

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KONY 2012 is continuing to spread like wildfire, despite controversy and criticism surrounding the film, and over the weekend Invisible Children released a follow up video to let the world know that “KONY 2012 is working.”

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In a world where everyone’s opinion is publicly recorded, it should be theoretically possible to determine the most popular concept of the moment — be it a movie, a song, a feeling or even a stock.  Certainly, we don’t have enough information at this point to record everyone’s fleeting thoughts, but Twitter is something that makes a good temporary approximation.  And that’s what led University of California, Riverside professor Vagelis Hristidis to investigate whether Twitter sentiment could help predict the stock market.

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This morning, Wordpress.com VIP is launching a new program giving third-party companies that have integrated their services with the WordPress platform the opportunity to seamlessly enable their tools and promote themselves among WordPress VIP clients.

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FGS 2012 is taking place on March 4, 2012 at the Mission Bay Conference Center (one day before GDC begins), and will feature top industry speakers from CrowdStar, KIXEYE, Adobe, The9, and BioWare San Francisco as well as plenty of indie game developers sharing their success stories! This year’s topics expand outside of the world of Flash gaming, as talks will cover mobile, 3D, and HTML5 as well. Learn more about FGS 2012!

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This Thursday, February 16, Mediabistro brings you Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online conference and hands-on workshop. Through keynote speeches with the biggest names in social media, practical how-to sessions, and strategic assignments, you’ll create a comprehensive social media marketing strategy and launch your campaign across various sites and platforms. By the end of the online conference and workshop, you’ll be monitoring, analyzing, and improving traffic, engagement, and conversion to sales.

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At a recent Socialize event in Toronto, a few panelists pointed out that people may be looking at Google+ the wrong way.  While most are trying to categorize it as a social network, the speaker felt that Google+ couldn’t miss because it was just a way of strengthening social SEO, and as the years pass, it will become more and more vital for companies to use it to improve their SEO anyway, and eventually this will draw people to Google+ through Google search.

I feel that this idea is spreading through businesses pretty fast, and seeing as how starting a basic Google+ business profile has almost zero risk and a very low cost, we’re seeing companies get into the space quick.  The latest?  Airlines.

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Today we raise a glass to Libatious, a social network for beer drinkers that launched today from its headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. The site has a database of beers and breweries from all over the world for users to explore, bookmark and rate – an intriguing blend of Pinterest and Yelp. In the real world, beer and social media go together like soda and pop rocks. Just for fun, here’s a sampling of eight beers to pair with eight different social networks, inspired by beers found on tap at Libatious.

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This week, Raytheon is hiring a social media manager, while Big Think is seeking an account manager. Rodale is looking for an SEO manager, and PMC is in need of a content manager for ENTV on YouTube. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.

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What happens when two guys that are constantly wearing plaid shirts get together for a few beers? Well, they come up with the idea to do a talk show all about plaid that’s shot entirely on iPhones, of course! The show is called Plaid Forever and it launched today on Tumblr.

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