In the day of social media enterprises are relying less on recruiters to get the talent they need to walk in the front door. 

LinkedIn has created the dynamic resume, but Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+ have all been used by people to land jobs in innovative ways. An increasingly popular trend is job seekers creating infographic resumes, video resumes and other visual resumes that set them apart from other job applicants.

Employers are now incorporating social media in recruiting processes, and the majority of businesses are turning to social media to find and evaluate job candidates. 

Shipwire Inc., the leading provider of order fulfillment services with warehouses in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia, has revolutionized logistics for growing global brands worldwide.  Shipwire provides businesses instant access to global markets, and unified operations management from a global logistics network. Shipwire provides the tools to expand distribution partnerships, while engaging in new emerging sales channels like social, community, and flash-sales.

Our friends at Totango,  a leading provider of an online customer engagement platform for cloud businesses, announced today the availability of its paid service and shared statistics from the beta period, which concluded this month. To date, Totango has analyzed and optimized the customer engagement with more than 1 million prospects and customers leading to increases in sales performance and higher rates of customer success for its SaaS (software-as-a-service) customers.

Ever wonder what the difference is between Inbound Marketing VS Outbound Marketing?

Inbound marketing is the art of earning a buyer's attention using innovate and interactive approaches, creating a path of discovery and nurture without "selling." Typical inbound approaches leverage social media and engaging content, such as blogs, podcasts and white papers and more recently, videos.

Here's a clear explanation of the two and why they're different.

As more companies move to the cloud, the way we do business changes. Information is required on-demand, businesses can now talk to each other instantly and geographic location definitely does not matter. Here's an infographic based on research by CSC.

EnerGov Solutions, a  provider of government applications has launched its newest cloud service, EnerGov 365™.  The application covers Permitting & Land Management, Licensing & Regulatory Management, Asset Management and Citizen Relationship Management (CRM) software suites.

The new service is pay-as-you-go and is targeted primarily at government agencies that may lack the resources to purchase traditional licenses and for agencies looking to off-premise their related IT infrastructure and related operational management to the cloud. For budgets constrained by the operating costs and upkeep of traditional on-premise environments, EnerGov 365™ provides a cost-effective and scalable solution to manage and securely maintain an off-premise environment in the cloud for governments of any size and scale.

Altadyn has announced their new virtual event platform, 3D-VirtualEvents.com. This new virtual event environment technology is designed for corporations and event professionals who want to stay away from boring slideshow-driven webcasts, in favor of more engaging and entertaining ways to run virtual events like virtual conferences, virtual training, virtual classrooms, virtual tradeshows and other virtual meetings.

Altadyn's patent pending technology is based on a disruptive technology that makes high-end 3D immersive spaces for collaboration accessible to users with mainstream computers in enterprise environments. While similar technologies require heavy or proprietary software downloads and installations, 3D-VirtualEvents.com runs in current browsers on typical office computers and only requires Java, the largely installed open source component.

It is said that 2012 is the year of BI or Business Intelligence. As SaaS companies mature and release robust APIs, data is becoming more accessible and usable, especially in understanding usage statistics and in some cases business data integrated across multiple systems. 

RJMetrics a new player on the scene has raised $1.2 million in seed financing from Goldberg, and early-stage venture capitalists, including SoftTech VC, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel and Zelkova Ventures, and other angel investors such as Wharton Professor Kartik Hosanagar and DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg.

ScaleArc, the pioneer in a new category of database infrastructure software that simplifies the way database environments are deployed and managed, has announced that it has closed $5.33 million in Series B financing. The new funds will accelerate geographic and staffing expansion to meet increased demand. Trinity Ventures led the funding round with full participation of the company's original investor, Nexus Venture Partners.

The company also announced the appointment of former Juniper Networks executive Justin Barney as president and COO. Prior to joining ScaleArc, Barney was vice president of sales for software in the Americas at Juniper Networks, where he joined via the acquisition of Ankeena Networks. He has also served as vice president of sales at Citrix Systems.

Cloudability has announced that it has closed a Seed investment round of $1.1 million, led by Trinity Ventures and Walden VC. The round also includes $255K in funding from a local consortium of Portland-based angel investors -- over half of the angel money in the round. Cloudability will use the Seed round to expand its engineering team, accelerate platform development and additional cloud-service integrations, and strengthen its position as the leading choice for businesses to manage their cloud costs and services.

Cloudability addresses the growing need to increase efficiency of cloud-use and provide cloud users with a simple way to monitor cloud costs, helping them avoid unnecessary overages and unused instances. Part of the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Solution Provider program, Cloudability offers access to cloud billing and usage data from over 80 providers like AWS, Rackspace and Heroku via an API, and connects to any business, financial system or web app they choose.