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This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: Vimeo, World Bank, Babble

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.

For more job listings, go to the Mediabistro job board, and to post a job, visit our employer page. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.

Can Twitter Predict the Volume and Price of a Specific Stock?

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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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Flash Gaming Summit 2012 – Special Offer for Social Times Readers

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Special offer for SocialTimes readers: 15% off the regular conference pass price! Use this promo code when you register to redeem your discount: promo_SocialTimes_15
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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Social Media Marketing Boot Camp Starts This Thursday

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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How Are the Airlines Using Google+? [Infographic]

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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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8 Beers That Best Describe the Most Popular Social Networks

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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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