Thought For The Day: Will defriending be the social media trend in 2009?

• Top Marketing Gurus Gaze Into Their Crystal Balls
  Includes a great presentation.
• LeBeast
  Canada has the RecruitingAnimal, France has LeBeast. Who is LeBeast
• MySpace Quietly Begins Encouraging Users To Use Their Real Names
  Anonymity is not in the public interest. MySpace loses credibility because identity is so fluid there.
• What Are Your Thoughts When One of Your *Top Clients* Starts Broadcasting Positions On BountyJobs, RecruitAlliance, Dayak, etc?
  The business of being a contractor includes the shift that happens during personnel changes. When the new team comes in, the best way to get started is by eliminating remnants of the old. It’s ancient, tried and true. These days, however, transparency is coming to these dark corners of the real world. Incumbents have an entire new arsenal when the disruption surfaces. Smart leaders will have to learn to work the other side of the dialog.
•  How to Tame 500-Pound Gorillas (a.k.a., Your Hiring Managers)
  Nice place to start the conversation. Hiring managers are responsible for most of the variation (read costs) in the Hiring process. Figuring out how to manage and standardize those events is the goal of transaction oriented hiring approaches like RPOs and Vendor Management Systems.  One of the primary conflicts between HR based Recruiters and 3rd Party professionals runs across this fault line. In house people prefer standardization at almost any expense. Outside players champion the cause of customized interactions.