Jul 12, 20080
WorkFast TV: The Future of Work is as Boring as Hell
Just posted on Social Disorders: Do Not Adjust Your Set on my Recruitomatic blog…
Dec 29, 20070
Lessons Learned from the Recruiting Roadshow
In short, some of us need to get out more!
Dec 12, 20070
Bill Vick and Towers of Confusion
A personal reflection posted on Recruitomatic today. It is about recruiting big-biller Bill Vick’s presentation at the Dallas Recruiting Roadshow.
Bill’s presentation introduced “bleeding edge” technology to recruiters who by and large — by their own show of hands — were hemorrhaging on old notions of how to use the Internet. It was that that was was most interesting to me. I wondered, “Is the so-called war for talent going to be won with what most recruiters are currently equipped with?” I don’t think so.
Dec 10, 20070
Telling Tales
I just posted Food for Thought: Ripping Yarns on Recruitomatic, the fourth in a Food for Thought… series.
Trying to wrap my head around information foraging theory I’m hoping a modern-day forager can help me make some stodgy stuff a little easier to digest…hmmm, maybe not!
The Discovery Channel airs an interesting program called Man vs Wild. The star of the show is Bear Grylls, a real life Action Man who demonstrates techniques for surviving the most inhospitable landscapes.
To accentuate the extreme nature of his adventures — and the diversity of what we eat on planet Earth perhaps — we are treated to the spectacle of watching iron-gut Grylls eat some particularly horrid things, or delicacies depending on your stomach.
Oct 18, 20070
Digital Ethnography
This morning I posted Just Another Brick in the Wall on my Recruitomatic blog. It features a video produced by the Digital Ethnography Working Group out of Kansas State University. The group is led by Dr. Michael Wesch…
Wow, these guys produce such good stuff!
Here is another great visual, Information R/evolution:
Information R/evolution follows on from the excellent primer Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us. I posted that a while back on RecruitingBlogs.com.
Oct 16, 20070
Recruiting Talent: No Real Value in Virtual Worlds
An interesting post on Social Media Explorer ‘Deconstructing Second Life’ questions the value of Second Life based on a review of the virtual world’s demographics:
The demographics show 8.5 million users, but only 561,000 of those are “active.” While nearly 40 percent of the active ones are age 25-34, only 26 percent are from the United States (with Brazil a distant second a 8.5). The numbers show 57 percent of active users are male…
Oct 13, 20070
projectstars: A New Twist or Old Problem?
I came across a new social network called projectstars, yet another killer startup. The site touts “blog for stock in the largest enterprise business blogging network” as if to suggest the potential payoff for participation might be worth the absolutely mind-numbing prospect of having to fill out yet another blessed profile first.
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