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Maybe I’ve missed this before, but my friend Bill Vick was just featured and called my attention to these
LinkedIn case studies. The examples include several areas, including hiring employees, finding a job, making deals, and finding experts.
According to a new study from Harris Interactive and metasearch engine Dogpile, 23 percent of U.S. adults have used the Internet to search for information about their customers, co-workers, potential employees, and supervisors.
Hands on the keyboard, body bent forward in fascinated concentration, his ear is turned towards the square box on the table next to the screen where the voice comes from. His foot moves audibly on the carpet as he experiences his “ahah.”
The synthetic voice of the screen reader reads the first line of text. […]
Heather Hamilton, a senior recruiter for marketing talent at Microsoft, just did one of the most unusual recruiting ideas I’ve ever seen. Heather has asked her readers to link to this post from their blog resumes, and she’ll check out the resumes by reviewing her referrals.
My coauthor, David Teten, had a chance to have a conversation with Greg Head, ACT!’s former General Manager, about the need for increased privacy, interoperability, and personal responsibility as contact management and social networking software converge:
In the past, bloggers seethed at the thought of the words blogging and business being used in the same sentence. If a popular pundit blogged anything money related they were immediately bombarded by backlash and rumblings from their audience. The word “Sellout” was immediately found mixed with profanities in their comments section and trackback posts.
So […]
This one will be really quick. I deal with a lot of new bloggers - so new in fact that their “Hello World” posts may still be visible on their main index page.
They all seem to have the same question: “What do I blog about?”
This should give you some idea. Read between the lines of […]
Why do bloggers blog? That’s an easy one… they want their opinions and thoughts to be heard. They take great comfort in knowing that someone, somewhere in the blogosphere will read and understand what they have to say.
Bloggers are writers, authors, diarists, etc. and as with any writer, the purpose of putting their virtual quills […]
Blogging in 1994 was a lot different than it is today. But some things never change.
We were young, naiive and quivvered at the sound of the 9600b modem as it screamed it’s way into the local bulletin board system (BBS). We posted and responded to others feverishly, stopping only when the time on our accounts […]
Frank Barnako, who I ordinarily have the highest respect for, really blew it today with his comments about political blogs. Commenting on MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann’s new blog, Barnako says, “Almost no one reads them.” He then goes on to quote some statistics from HitWise comparing blog traffic to other political news sources: