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Stand Down, Tiger
This morning at 10am, Tiger Woods will hold a press conference from that beautiful course that is TPC Sawgrass. (have I mentioned I'm a huge golf fan?) I frequent his official website from time to time and while it's not the best athlete/celebrity fan site, it does serve to motivate me now and again in both my personal and professional endeavors. Let's face it... Tiger turns people on and keeps them motivated. [insert joke about countless affairs here] Or at least he did... |
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Buzz Off!.. No, On. Uhm, Off.
Okay, so we've had Google Buzz for what boils down to a week now. And we've heard phrases like "what Wave should have been" or "the Twitter killer" or "the best thing in my Inbox." But on day 7 I think I'm going to assign my own analogy to Google Buzz. To me - it's like drinking 'social' from a fire hydrant. Yeah - I said it. And While I think there are some incredible possibilities here it's another example of how Google has shoved something to the masses to see... |
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Mobile Job Seekers
So let's talk mobile applications for employment. Why? Well quite simply because I'm tired of hearing people say that job seekers aren't ready to apply for jobs via their mobile. And I think I'm to the point where I just have to call it out and say, "that's crap." If done right, I can't think of a single reason a job seeker wouldn't want to submit interest for a job via their mobile device. After all, we're being honest and talking about what the job seeker wants... |
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Fistful of Ranked Bloggers
Feeling flattered, surprised, and some cool facter - hey, I'm not gonna' lie. For the most part this is what happens when our names make a list - well, depending on the list, I suppose. I remember this one time in the 5th grade where my name was put on a list for... okay - I digress. Regardless... Making the FOT/HRCapitalist Talent Management Blog Power Rankings Top 10 again is certainly something that invoked the aforementioned feelings. But what I really take away from... |
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Talking Brand...
Today I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with a pretty smart bunch here in Dallas. The New Media Training Institute asked me to speak at a local event and discuss how companies are using Social Media and engaging customers through the seemingly limitless channels. One of the items that I was asked to really dig into was how teams can make the most of their time and avoid the Social Media Time Suck we're all afraid of. My approach? I created ~15 high to mid-level slides and... |
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Wordle Wednesday
Update 2/7/10: Clicking each image will reveal the answer within the frame.It's Wednesday so let's have a little something to push us through the middle of the week that might be fun. I enjoy puzzles and riddles and games - so I thought it might be fun to use a slick little tool called Wordle that runs on a Google App Engine. To put it plainly, users can simply paste a number of words into the field provided and the application will generate and artistic rendition of those words. Alternately,... |
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Listening Is A Form Of Flattery
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." - Joyce Brothers This quote (I love quotes) came to mind when I started writing this article. And while not I'm not a big Joyce Brothers fan per se, I think there's more truth here than not. After all, none of us really likes being copied - but we love when someone shuts the heck up and lets us talk, right? So why wouldn't our approach to social media (even for recruitment!) be the same - at least at its base? ... |
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My Office Affair
It's true. She's driven me crazy for years and keeps me up at night. I've stayed out late with her and have woken up beside her in more hotels than I can count. I've even had talks with leadership and peers alike where I adamantly denied that she was as important to me as I realize now that she is. I've been in denial for months about how much she's on my mind when I'm away from the office. So after a lengthy conversation with my wife and my friends and a few that I trust...... |
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Truth Be Told...
I've been meaning to touch on this topic for a few months now - and I was just never able to find a gentle way to kick it off. I haven't been able to find a funny analogy or humorous quip to kick off an article that hits on such an important topic. And the more I thought about how I should start a talk about ethics in the workplace or within our industry the more I just kept coming back to the same simple statement: "Don't. 'Effing. Lie." Yeah... That one does it - even though it's a bit brash. ... |
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Wrapping It Up Jan 22 2010
It's the end of another week and that means another quick list of blog postings that were worth checking out. It was a great 2nd week of being actively reading and authoring blog posts this year and I was excited to see some pretty solid topics posted throughout the blogosphere as well as some great comments and dialogue found on RecruiterGuy.net. So as I give you a list of my top items to reference for this week past, I leave you with a quote to absorb that was a favorite of mine in college... |
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Are You Measuring?
What are you doing to measure your social recruiting efforts? Because if you aren't doing anything to measure them and you're telling the world that social recruiting works then you're just winging it. Or if you aren't putting any effort in place to try and account for your efforts while squaking to your peers and colleagues that it doesn't work - well, you're equally as full of it. This article is an entry for CruiterTalk.com's Recruiting Carnival and a follow up to last year's entry where... |
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Pushin' Up The Work
It's been studied and reported on over the years that employees engaged in moderate exercise have higher work quality and/or better job performance than those that just sit around all day. Some experts have even gone so far as to say that employees that are physically fit get along much better with coworkers - and without digging up surveys and journal entries to support or contradict this I'll be honest with you and say I agree with the claims - because quite frankly, they apply to me. ... |
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Weekly Wrap-Up Jan 15 2010
This is it, gang. The end of the first week of the new RecruiterGuy.net layout and the hopes that I've smashed most of the bugs and old URI redirects. What we should have now is a faster, sexier (barring that huge headshot at the top) and easier to use blog - that gets to what's important. With just a bit more bug smashing to go I think we can start getting into stride and finding our rhythm related to content delivery and new features. One of the new things I'm adding and that I think you'll... |
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Convert SharePoint list to XML … in 10 seconds or less
To quickly convert any Sharepoint list to XML, follow these quick steps: FIND THE LIST GUID (a GUID is the unique key for an item) Open the list, then click settings, then list settings copy the URL while in the list settings mode Click this link: http://www.albionresearch.com/misc/urlencode.php (it’s a decoder) Paste the URL in the field named “Encoded” and press [...] |
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SharePoint vs. Google Wave
SharePoint has been the growing business standard for online collaboration for the past few years and continues to grow it’s presence and use. However, “GOOGLE WAVE” is being touted as a SharePoint rival. Google wave works like instant messaging inside of email, but with more juice than email because you can launch apps and collaborate [...] |
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Google Wave… Robots, Gadgets, Embed – OH MY!
To fully use the functionality of Google Wave, try using a robot, gadget or embed. Keep in mind, that some of these only work in the developer sandbox environment. I have both a developer and a tester login for Google wave. For instance, the twitter bot called “Tweety” doesn’t work in the tester environment, only [...] |
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My top FREE iPhone apps
Some of my favorite iPhone apps are as follows: CNN – live streaming video of breaking news, the most important headlines of the day with location-based news, weather and traffic from the palm of your hands. With the NEW CNN App for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you can also iReport directly from your phone using [...] |
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Fusion Charts and SharePoint
I’m trying to make a flash/xml driven dashboard using the Fusion Charts free app, but having little success from this blog: www.pathtosharepoint.com/FusionCharts/default.aspx Thank GOODNESS, I found additional articles to try it out. If I do figure this out, I will make a video and post it, it will be a great tool if I can [...] |
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SharePoint Site Launched!
The AT&T staffing project PHASE I is finally done and launched to over 500+ users! It was a fun challenge to craft a custom master page, custom web parts, custom CSS, integrate Flash videos, blogs, wikis, self help features and much more. Here is a snapshot of some of the screens. (obviously content is blurred [...] |
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SharePoint 2010 BETA
So the SharePoint Beta was just released today. I just downloaded the Sharepoint 2010 Beta and am about to install it on our new test server. I am so thrilled. I am such a nerd! http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/ See the details below: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/sharepoint-2010-public-beta-is-now-available-for-download.aspx As part of the beta, we are unveiling several new capabilities, including: The Outlook Social Connector, [...] |