I hardly paid attention to Recruiting.com…. The Canadian Headhunter…. was particularly confusing to me, Pythonesque, obnoxious, foreign. Jason Davis was, well, ordinary…. Anthony Meaney, the correspondent blogger, confused the hell out of me. [Ji…

“I’m a simple girl myself
Grew up on Long Island…”
~ Alan Jackson, “Gone Country”

Maureen Sharib
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If you don’t think the post is good enough to submit on Recruiting.com yourself, who am I to do it? ;0) I thought the point of article submission was “diversity of opinion” and “independence of members from one another” and peer/social validation. What am I missing?

As it happens, my page views are down a bit today but not by that much. It could be the weather. Certainly nothing unusual. I do want to see what happens without the Recruiting.com lift so that I can compare what happens when this post is eventually referenced there. It’s an experiment right, I’m in no hurry. [Do you know the story about the young bull and the old bull and the herd of cows?] I am seeing fewer referrals from Recruiting.com but I suspect with your new diggolicious front-page and feed/blogroll configuration that was to be expected. Also, the total potential Recruitosphere audience hasn’t expanded or contracted so any variance in traffic is probably as much to do with “things settling down” as with anything else. Don’t you think? And of course, not all my visitors are coming from Recruiting.com, far from it.

The site looks great and satisfies a lot of needs for blog-browsing. But I still have unanswered questions about what it’s all about and how to best take advantage. Like I said, one has to understand how something works before you can make it work for you. I also think community should come before self although I will post my own stuff on Recruiting.com if that becomes the modus operandi. I just think that somehow negates the spirit of the thing. Naive? Perhaps, but so what? Not too jaded to be an idealist, not too stupid to be pragmatic. I have time to play. It’s just good fun. No rush. Tomorrow’s another day, another post.

Amitai

I like Poetry and that is why I like you. I have monitored some sites and I have seen is that a few of the posts that have gotten a number of votes seem to be getting more traffic than usual from Recruiting.com.

I suggest if you write something and you want the Recruiting.com visitors to see it, submit it to Recruiting.com. We will be hooking a blog tools section up shortly to make it quite easy to submit content.

I think the implications are based on what you want and expect from blogging.