Thought For The Day: It’s not what we don’t know that kills us. It’s what we DO know – that turns out to not be true.

• Two Demographic Bits:
  • Twitter Traffic Explodes.. It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend.
  • Nielsen: Women Dominate PC Gaming...The largest demographic  review in the PC gaming audience is females age 25 and older.
• Corporate Recruiting
  • How to do a competitive analysis on your company’s job site. Good presentation of a Recruiting fundamental .
  • Microsoft builds communities of potential employees. Even those who hate MSFT.
    “if you never touch Microsoft tech or use the Microsoft stack, you’ll find a lot of useful career-building info“
• More Communities
  • Lou Adler’s Recruiter’s Wall 1,071 Members, 61 Forum Discussions (about 2/month..no comments), 60 Blog
    Posts (about 1/week, few comments), 4 Videos
  • Kevin Wheeler’s Future of Talent – Ning FOT Network
  • Knowledge Infusion’s Talent Management Forum the newcomers to Recruiting offer a larger nest of groups for full spectrum HR.
• We teach entrepreneurship like every vertical market has the same set of rules
  Finally someone who gets the fact that vertical markets are all different from each other. Recruiting, which only happens in vertical markets is as different.
• Personal Branding
  • Personal Branding effectiveness is inversely proportional to the time you spend on it. Funny graphic from GL Hoffman
  • Dan Schwabel’s Personal Branding Blog

I am still collecting information about Online communities in the HR – HCM – HRTech – TotalHR – Benefits – Compensation – Recruiting – Talent Management Industry. Please forward ideas and places I shouldn’t miss to john (at) johnsumser.com. Thanks – js

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