Seth Godin is looking for a chief engineer and is offerig a $5,000.00 Bounty (aka referral bonus) to anyone who find them for him to be paid 6 months after hire. This is interesting because again it shows the usage of blogs for recruitment. Writing a professional based blog, not a corporate blog, develops aContinue reading “A $5,000 bounty, but does it work?”
Category Archives: Social Networks
Jobs in my network
No not my network, Gautam Ghosh’s. He is trialling the new Jobster service for invited job seekers to share jobs through their network. The service was launched a few weeks ago. The jobs are all from Microsoft and were advertised by Heather last week. Personally I like the sound of the Product Strategy job IContinue reading “Jobs in my network”
Social reputation and authority
Happened to be browsing Feedburner today and found an interesting post in their blog about a new API. The Feed Awareness API looks very interesting and seems to already have support from some of the feed reader software. The best way to describe it is to quote the Feedburner site. Feed Awareness describes the extentContinue reading “Social reputation and authority”
What is a network?
Jen from Jen on Friday’s brings up an interesting question, what is a network and when do you know if you belong to one? Her comments indicate that the network is only there when you know you belong to one. If someone reads your RSS feed does that mean they are in a network withContinue reading “What is a network?”
Social bookmark searching
Scoble points to a new social bookmark search and exploration engine called Gataga. There has been lots of talk in the last week about Technorati being a third party aggregator of content when it comes to tags. Gataga seems to be doing just the same thing just a little differently, the interface and results areContinue reading “Social bookmark searching”
Is “peer production” the “long tail”?
(Via Dubs.) This post is a bit vague and more a snapshot of ideas than anything else, but hey it is my blog. In Business Week a Yale Law School professor, Yochai Benkler, has put together a paper on the changing nature of our economy that is being fuelled by the Internet and cheap computingContinue reading “Is “peer production” the “long tail”?”
XFN and HR
Over the last couple of days I have been pondering how XFN could be incorportated into our online world. I know there are some logical places, which is why XFN was created, I am working through some use cases on how it might be integrated into recruitment practices. Another interesting topic is Attention.xml I haveContinue reading “XFN and HR”
Your neighboursphere
James Farmer (Blogtalk Downunder fame) poses some interesting thoughts around a concept he is calling neighboursphere. Having spent so sometime chatting to James at the conference I kind of know where he is going with this. Here is my 2 cents worth. Virtual communities seem to appear when people publish online (I am expanding thisContinue reading “Your neighboursphere”
Your Gooru
During the last few days while at Blogtalk Downunder (if you had not guessed that was where the flood of posts came from) I had the pleasure of meeting some many fantastic people. Some of those people was the team from Zed Tycho who build social networking tools and other cool pieces of software. OneContinue reading “Your Gooru”
Heather asks if it is true?
Heather Hamilton asks, is it true? I am sorry to say but yes. We had an interesting discussion on this at BlogTalk Downunder when Mark Bernstein used it as an example in his closing comments.
Michael Specht 