In a manner very similar to 43 Things and 43 Places Kinan has highlighted a new site called Things I Can Do as a potential Resume 2.0 tool. While the tool is interesting it really only shows a portion of what a resume needs to cover. From JobWeb a resume is:- a one or twoContinue reading “Things I Can Do”
Category Archives: Social Networks
Tips for virtual conference attendance
SHRM’s premiere event has just finished and we right in the middle of conference season for North America. All of these conferences now generate lots of discussions online. For example was a great conversation that has been going on spearheaded by Your HR Guy, then Amitai Givertz then Your HR Guy and finally by AmitaiContinue reading “Tips for virtual conference attendance”
AOL copies DIGG and relaunches Netscape.com
One of the big technology stories going around today (not the one about Bill Gates) is the AOL relaunch of Netscape.com, currently at beta.netscape.com, long the same lines as Digg. The site relies on member participation to vote on stories, this provides a pulse on what is hot at the moment. I was going toContinue reading “AOL copies DIGG and relaunches Netscape.com”
Inside out, back to front and open recruiting
Rob Merrill over at GoodRecruits has a taken several ideas that are brewing across the blogosphere and produced an interesting business idea. Jobster, but distributed… Rob feel we all need to get into Microformats, Microformat Search engines, social networks, XFN (or would RapLeaf be just as good?) mash them all together and create a distributedContinue reading “Inside out, back to front and open recruiting”
Your online reputation
There is a saying “on the internet no ones knows if you are a dog“, in other words you might be a trustworthy person however because of the anonymous nature of the internet it is very hard for others to judge. In daily transactions, both business and personal, your reputation is a key component. InContinue reading “Your online reputation”
New blog features
I have been playing with a couple of new features on my blog before looking to add them to selected themes on hrblogs.org. In no particular order A list of the last 10 posts on the side bar A list of 5 related posts on each post Using Notable, you now have the ability toContinue reading “New blog features”
ZoomIn to Australian Social Mapping Software
Here is a really really cool new tool, ZoomIn, thanks to Cam & Rich from G’Day World for the pointer. ZoomIn is an Australian mapping solution that is mashed up with social networking and a photo sharing site. Users can create places, upload photos and add comments. The mapping software is very good, personally IContinue reading “ZoomIn to Australian Social Mapping Software”
Sharing content in a Web 2.0 world
A week ago Ray Ozzie posted about Really Simple Sharing a new extension to the RSS (and OPML) protocol from Microsoft called Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE), that is released under Creative Commons. SSE allows asynchronous replication of items among two or more parties via feeds. There has been a bit of a buzz over thisContinue reading “Sharing content in a Web 2.0 world”
Google base and HR
Sometimes I like to watch, and other times I tend to jump in with both feet. The launch of Google Base has been one of those times I have wanted to watch, well read really. There are thousands of opinions out there on what Google base is really doing, what is not doing, why itContinue reading “Google base and HR”
Multinational networks
One of the most amazing aspects of blogging is the online connections that can be formed. These networks would most likely never be formed offline. Take for example this post from Afshin Dabiri who writes about HR from Iran. I tried to comment to say thanks for the link as Ahshin has done on myContinue reading “Multinational networks”
Michael Specht 