090429 #Socialmedia Links

Thought For The Day:It’s entirely possible that Twitter is an echo chamber that makes adequate assessment impossible. What then? Will we look back and say that the downturn was so terrifying that we lost our minds and acted like twits. 60% Of Twitter Users Quit After A Month …hard to imagine this is good for […]
 

090428 Media Death Links

Thought For The Day: Marriott Corp.’s recent decision to stop delivering the paper to hotel guest rooms won’t affect the numbers until the next reporting period Today’s links paint a picture of the abrupt end of about 80 years of specialized prosperity for the newspapers. Immense fortunes were made and lost by the moguls who […]
 

090427 Social Recruiting Links

Thought For The Day: “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – General George Patton Twitter and B2B marketing: A simplification Harry Joiner offers straight no-nonsense explanations about what works and what doesn’t. He uses Twitter heavily. This is an elegant model for Social Recruiting in a third party setting. Needs a […]
 

090424 Failure Links

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Thought For The Day: “I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” Thomas Edison Great Expectations: Sustaining Participation in Social Media Spaces Most of the conversation about community and what makes it work is overly simplistic. This article, written by a museum curator for other museum curators, tries to dig […]
 

Translate to Tweet

Translating to Tweet (April 23, 2009) I’m learning a great deal about Facebook and Twitter. They are both dynamic information distribution environments. Each day, I pump out a flow of 15 or so items. Bill Kutik calls it “the cell phone news.” Twitter’s format requires  you to become adept at writing fortunes for fortune cookies. […]
 

090423 New & Old Ideas Links

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Thought For The Day: “People Matter, Objects Don’t.“ Nurse magnets How employment branding is done for nurses in hospitals. Some hospitals are certified as nurse magnets. They adhere to 14 distinct principles. It makes them better places to work than other hospitals. Great combination of certification and employment branding.  ““A magnet hospital is a whole […]
 

Extremophiles

Extremophiles (April 22, 2009) In a world of writers and verbal intellects, Eileen Clegg is a visual thinker. She is a prototypical Renaissance person with broad interests and deep networks. The seasoned newspaper reporter (10 years at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat) spent an additional chunk of her life working at the Institute for the […]
 

090422 Broken and Done Links

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Thought For The Day: “It’s easy for us to project our biases. Effectiveness depends on navigating someone else’s projections.” MarketingCharts: Fantastic demographics resource…charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format,. Ready to soup up your presentation. Bernard Hodes Group – 08 HR Department Structure and Staffing Trends This great little report will help […]
 

090421 Social Recruiting Links

Thought For The Day: “There is no such thing as a leprechaun. It is a complete waste of time to spend your energy trying to find one. However, when you do find one, cherish it.” Social Recruiting Summit An interesting spin on the old fashioned Trade Show. ERE Media is delivering an event that wants […]
 

090420 Extremophile Links

Topics: All, Daily Links, HR Trends, John Sumser, JohnSumser.com, by John Sumser
Thought For The Day: “In response to economic threats, staff reorganizations, cuts and new hires are usually based on past performance rather than on an understanding of which people will guide the company to success in difficult times.” – Eileen Clegg How Extremeophiles Thrive in Impossible Conditions: Lessons for Business from Nature’s Super-Survivors Extremophiles are […]