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Sunnyvale, California based communications consultancy Voce Communications announced today that it has hired Chris Thilk to be the eighth full-time member of its dedicated social media team. His official title

Social gaming company Zynga announced that it has hired former EA digital media executive Brandon Barber to fill its newly created position of Vice President of Marketing. Barber will report

Social media news release company PitchEngine announced today that Brian Solis, social media pioneer and Principal of FutureWorks PR, will join the six month old company as its new Strategic

Social media consultant, beer writer and MacGyver fan Kerry Finsand announced on Twitter moments ago that he will be doing Social Media Strategy for Portland, Oregon based internet company GoSeeTell

Independent social media consulting agency Social Media Group (SMG) announced that Toronto based communications professional Leona Hobbs will be joining the company as its new Director of Communications.

Former RWW writer and editor Josh Catone let us know today that he has a new job. The Providence, Rhode Island freelance writer and entrepreneur is now the new Community

Marketing and technology company Amaze announced today that it has hired two online specialists to help increase its social media presence. Paul Fabretti will be the company's new Social Media

Today GigaOM network site Web Worker Daily announced changes to its staff. Senior Writer Mike Gunderloy will be stepping down and he will be replaced by Managing Editor Judi Sohn.

Hip-hop community website Global Grind announced in a press conference in New York City today that rap mogul Russell Simmons will be its new Editor in Chief. The site plans

The headline on Jenn Lowther's blog this morning says it all, "I have a New Job! Director of Social Media at 6S Marketing". The Vancouver, BC based internet marketing company

We just spoke with former Google, Inc. Strategic Partner Development Manager Rick Klau and he informed us that he joined Google's Blogger team recently. Klau joined the team as its

PR and communications professional Keith McArthur announced on his blog today that next week will be his last week at Veritas and that he will be joining Canadian communications provider

Today on the Facebook Developers blog, Chief Executive Mark Zukerberg announced there will be changes to the management of its third-party apps. "This is going to be an intense year

Video sharing website Motionbox announced it has picked up $6 million in a third round of funding and promoted Josh Grotstein from Chief Operating Officer to Chief Executive Officer. He

Chicago's Amber Naslund announced on her blog this weekend that she has been hired by social media monitoring company Radian6 as its new Director of Community.

Inching ever closer to self-actualization, Vancouver, BC writer and producer Dave Olson announced on his Ephemeral Feasthouse blog today that he will be leaving Raincity Studios to join movie maker

Founder of Rocketboom Andrew Baron announced on his blog today that Rocketboom will be "teaming up with Lisa Nova to produce additional content for the Rocketboom network". Rocketboom is a

Today Web Worker Daily, a blog that "covers the future of work in a post-broadband world", announced that Dawn Foster has joined its team as a blogger.

Earlier today TechCrunch reported that Brian O'Shaughnessy, Director of Global Corporate Communications at Google, is leaving to become head of communications for Skype. His last day at Google is this

A report from the Los Angeles Times Tech Blog today says that Chief Executive Officer Dan Nye is stepping down at LinkedIn and "handing back the reins to company founder

Silicon Valley based social networking company Watercooler announced today it has hired Chris Chinn to be its new Vice President of Sales. Chin will lead advertising sales and monetization strategy

Grand Forks, North Dakota community manager Connie Bensen announced in her blog that she is "now working with the Techrigy guys on a full time basis". She will be Community

New media marketing agency Carrot Creative specializes in social media, application development, and user experience. Yesterday they announced on their company blog that they have named Kristin Maverick as their

Andrei Zmievski announced in his blog, "I've been Dugg". Andrew will join the online social bookmarking company Digg as their new Open Source Fellow. He starts Monday morning.

Two new hires were announced today by Portland, Oregon based web application development shop Stepchange. The firm has hired Crystal Beasley as Designer & Interactive Brand Manager and Jessica Swan