090303 Old-New Links

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Thought For The Day: “Creative people don’t want to “do it right.” They want to share the excitement you had when you yourself didn’t know how to do it right. Creative people are unconsciously attracted by the parts that make no sense. And Web 2.0 was full of those.” –Bruce Sterling What An Antitrust Case […]
 

090302 Recruiting Links

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Thought For The Day: See the Sourcing Is Dead Debate on RBC A History of HR Standards Bookmark this set of articles. It’s the story of the effort to create an integrated standard for HR Systems interoperability. While the project made some headway, few people have a real stake in a positive outcome. The results, […]
 

Hunting, Gathering

Social Networking Software: Hunting, Gathering, Farming, Manufacturing, Interacting (Feb 27, 2009) You can predict the evolution. Just like the rest of civilization, access to and relationships with the members of the millions of social networks will evolve along traditional lines: Hunting, Gathering, Farming, Manufacturing, Interacting. That’s how the web grew up; that’s how the human […]
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Consolidate and Fragment

Social Networking Software: Consolidate and Fragment (Feb 26, 2009) By now, you’re familiar with the fact that Facebook is growing at 1 kazillion percent per month; that MySpace is plateauing and that LinkedIn is struggling to feel like a community.. It’s easy to lose site of the nearly 1 million small social networks* on Ning […]
 

090226 Random Links

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Thought For The Day: “Social networks will evolve like the rest of human culture: Hunting, Gathering, Farming, Manufacturing, Interacting." Beginning Your Career with Sodexo WebinarWith a strong Twitter presence and a value laden webinar offering, the folks at Sodexo are pioneers in 21st Century online recruiting.   New HR Marketer ReportVendor Trends in 2009. Well […]
 

090225 Five Links

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Thought For The Day: “There are four things I want you to make sure you understand are a priority: science, science, science, and science” Nancy Pelosi to Steve Ballmer Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web Kevin Kelly video on where the web is headed. Premise, the first 5,000 days were unimaginable; next 5,000 […]
 

Social Network Data

How Do You Manage Data From Social Networks? (Feb 25, 2009) There’s no question that social networks are a huge part of the future of Recruiting. With roughly 65 Million users in the domestic US, social networks are rapidly becoming the norm. Youth (29 and under) adoption is in the 2/3 range. Here are the […]
 

090224 Broad Spectrum Links

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Thought For The Day:“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps” David Lloyd George Modern Methods of Data Visualization If you want to know what’s missing from the HR-HCM-Recruiting universe, it’s the use of visualization tools. With millions of data elements, we […]
 

Urban Myth

Urban Myths and Legends (Feb 24, 2009) Yesterday, I happily “retweeted” a message that, in itself, was a retweet. (Did you follow that? I forwarded a twitter message that had been forwarded to me.) The tweet (message) said “RT @jimholincheck RT @ThomasCrampton: HK co just laidoff with fire alarm. Those whose security badges worked to […]
 

090223 Beefy Links

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Thought For The Day: Attributes of social media: 1. Social media requires investment (time, energy, money) 2. Relationships can not be automated. Be authentic 3. New media works on attraction, not promotion. Broadcast tactics need careful testing 4. New media amplifies anxieties and fears in a public way. Avoid tactics that feel funny. 5. Relationships […]