Jim Durbin has begun a discussion at Recruiting.com on a Link Swap to promote HR related blogs. While the promotion of HR blogs is a fantastic idea but a straight out link swap is probably not the best way to go about it. Good blogs require good content, good content gets noticed and the blogContinue reading “Jim has brought me out”
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links for 2006-04-20
Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: Bureau of Workplace Interruptions Via Nancy White comes workplace interruptions, an organisation that sets out to interrupt your workday, in a positive way of course. Great for all of those workaholics out there. (tags: collaboration WorkLife HRM) Talentism: SaaS, Salesforce and Our New Central Sourcing Business Jeff at Talentism givesContinue reading “links for 2006-04-20”
Link to me I have a blog!
I noticed today that Linkme has launched a blog, or blogs as they like to refer to it. Good to see another Australian HR-related blog in the marketplace. (Free tip 1:- Linkme, it is really not a blog without RSS feeds) (Free tip 2:- It is called a blog and it contains posts, a post isContinue reading “Link to me I have a blog!”
Job seekers and blogs
There has been a bit of a rush this week on posts about using blogs to help you find a job. Previously most of the discussion and example have been about corporations promoting themselves through blogs. To a lesser extent job seekers using a blog to create a micro-brand that increases their standing within a particular industry,Continue reading “Job seekers and blogs”
links for 2006-04-19
Scobleizer – Microsoft Geek Blogger » Blogging and Careers Robert Scoble provides his thoughts on blogging and your career, following a Boston Globe article (tags: blogging recruitment career)
Google Calendar only 20% there
3 or 4 days ago Google inflicted Google Calendar on the world, yet another in their long line of Beta products. Being part geek I tried it out over the Easter break and within about 2 minutes became very unimpressed with the product. Based on the bugs, quirks and workarounds this product does not lookContinue reading “Google Calendar only 20% there”
Google Base in the click stream
HitWise Lee Ann Prescott provides us with an interesting usage breakdown for Google Base during March 2006. Shopping & Classifieds sites getting 18% of Google Base’s downstream traffic, with nearly 8% of traffic going to job sites. Lee Ann ponders that Google Base is a part shopping directory, part recipe search service, part classified service,Continue reading “Google Base in the click stream”
links for 2006-04-11
Gautam Ghosh on Management: Cubicles enforce groupthink? Do cubes really make us dumber? Gautam points to an article on the subject. (tags: collaboration Management SocialNetworks HRM) Learning Technologies: Podcast? CourseCast? An interesting post on how podcasting can be used within higher education, also relevant for eLearning providers. Of interest the real value seems to beContinue reading “links for 2006-04-11”
More on HR 2.0 or is it 3.0?
(Yes I know I am flogging a dead horse.) Systematic Viewpoints has provided his opinion/views/position on HR, SOA and Web 2.0, within which he has questioned how to use RSS for an integrated worklist and poses several questions. All very important and shows a snippet of the issues/concerns that need to be resolved, I haveContinue reading “More on HR 2.0 or is it 3.0?”
links for 2006-04-10
CBR Editor’s Weblog: The ROI of blogging, and whether Jonathan Schwartz’s blog pays for itself Calculating the ROI of a corporate blog is one means of determining its success (tags: ROI business blog) Talk Digger: find, follow and join discussions evolving on the Internet. Talk Digger yet another tools for finding out who is talkingContinue reading “links for 2006-04-10”
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