links for 2005-08-10

New Australian HR blog

Jorge from Hudson (the recruiters) in Australia has just started a recruitment related blog called Blogging from Hudson, while this is not his first blog from memory it is the first in English and on recruitment (we caught up for a couple of drinks a while back).

Welcome, I look forward to your insight and wisdom around the recruitment industry within Australia and Asia Pacific.

Podcasting and parents

While I think it is very cool that I have been on a couple of podcasts there is a strange feeling when your parents begin to get involved as well.

My mother was interviewed on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters program last week. Today I got an email from her saying it was ready to download. I knew that ABC had got heavily into podcasting but I did not quite realise how much until I went for a hunt to subscribe to the interview. Boy has it all hit mainstream, even ignoring the whole Apple iTunes thing.

I left one (or two) out!

David Manaster just dropped me an email and said I left them out of my previous post!

David sorry it has been a bad day from a blogging front, missing you, wrong URLs etc etc. I have been very busy (too busy) and not had much time to blog I thought I would quickly put together a post on these new feed services. Sorry to leave you out.

We have 5 known services (I’m sure there are more):-
Recruiting.com with Recruiting blogs
BERT
ERE Blog Network
HR MegaBlog
Recruiting Blogosphere run by ERE

This also excludes the BNet service that has been around for a while.

The point is if you are in the HR profession in any fashion you have no excuse for not being linked in with what is going on.

BERT vs MegaBlog vs Recruiting.com

What a fantastic couple of weeks it has been for innovation and growth within the HR blogging arena!

First mover advantage must go to Jason Davis over at Recruiting.com for his scrolling list of recent blog posts!

Next we have MegaBlog, as mentioned in last night’s links! Just exchanged emails with Pierce Murphy about this, it seems to be coming from Thompson, the information guys, fantastic.

And now, but not least, BERT The Electronic Recruiting News!

Who will win? Everyone! Site hosts, bloggers, readers and most importantly the overall HR industry. Now the open invite.

If you have not already grabbed the HR OPML file do so now! I hope to find sometime very soon to update it with all the new blogs I have found in the last few weeks. If you are putting together a service like the ones above and want to use the file do so, just apply credit where required. You might want to look at pointing your service directly at the OPML file and that way when there are updates you get the new HR Blogs automatically and we all benefit. If you have a blog that is not listed, let me know and I will add it.

Updated: Got the URL wrong for the HR Megablog, that will teach me for blogging before 7am!

links for 2005-08-08

Eat money!

No HR or technology in this post, just stuff.

While flicking through a gift guide from the New Internationalist my wife came across this great quote:-

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.”
Cree Indian saying

The sad thing is it will probably be true, just like in the Ben Elton book Stark.