(January 20, 2009) When I was six, I went to the Cedar Lane Elementary School in Vienna, Va. I had no idea that there were children of other colors and nationalities. Immigration was headed to an all time low of 3%. The black kids went to a school called Louise Archer. I didn’t do so […]
Thought For The Day: “Muggeridge’s Law is: there is no way that a writer of fiction can compete with real life for its pure absurdity.” The Plot to Kill Google The bloom is off the rose. 2009 will be a “feeding frenzy” as Google draws real competitive fire. The issues will be privacy, content neutrality […]
Thought For The Day: “EEO legislation is the foundation of contemporary notions of merit and pay for performance.” We Are Actively Dismantling Your Trusted Marketing Strategies Take five minutes to listen to this. Brian Massey says: – TV is not an effective way to communicate, video is. – Radio is not an effective way to […]
Thought For The Day: “Whatever you can or think you can, begin it. Boldnes has genius and magic in it.” – Goethe Would you like fries with that? Google lays off 100 Recruiters, 25% of its recruiting team. Good career coaches should always tell recruiters to negotiate for more severance at the start of the […]
Thought For The Day: “The bad news hasn’t arrived yet.” It’s Geek to You, but Not to Them: Meet the Early Adopters Anyone reading this piece is probably an early adopter. The difference between EAs and the rest of the consuming public is significant. When early adopters develop new products, they make a host of […]
Word For The Day: “Recruiterati” (Thanks, Jerry) An Hour With…. Over on RecruitingBlogs.com, there is a great conversation about intimacy in networking. There are a number of interesting threads, many revolving around the notion of setting limits (privacy law, banning and defriending). In the interests of building deeper intimacy between members, JD launched “Spend An […]
Thought For The Day: ““We’re having a word wide going out of business sale.” It’s that serious. Clearance sale time. Everything must go.” – Dave Winer Facebook Prepares To Launch FriendFeed “Like” Feature Consolidating platforms into single communications channels is trend number 2 right after defriending. “Something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” […]
Thought For The Day: “Hindsight is 50/50” Recruiting Predictions for 2009 Wavy Davy Manaster (check out his picture) offers some predictions. Most of them reflect economic uncertainties. We’ll add 1) Explosion in the adoption of RPOs; 2) Price wars in the job boards; 3) Reductions in sourcers (the technique solves a shortage not a surplus); […]
Thought For The Day: “The best website is the one you leave the fastest. Outbound links make for loyal audiences. (Sumser’s Paradox) “ Why I Love Twitter Tim O’Reilly’s job is “redistributing the future”. He uses twitter to do that. Facebook firing sparks ethics debate Are you fired if you don’t open your Facebook Inbox? […]
(January 7, 2009) So, here it comes. Print media are about to collapse. Guess whose fault it is? It’s raining articles about the impending failure of major press institutions. If the New York Times dies, does the news die? in the Industry Standard End Times in the Atlantic Monthly How the Newspapers Tried to Invent […]
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