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Archive for December, 2007

How to Use Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 License.
For more great cartoons about Web 2.0, check out Geek and Poke. Here are a few of my favorites:

That Was 2007 – Part 1: The Social Graph
The Latest From Facebook
The Facebook Way – Part 2
The New Social Way
What Is A Blogger?

The CEO’s New Social Network Strategy – A Cautionary Tale

Friday, December 21st, 2007

One of my associates in Link To Your World, Carter Smith, did a great post today on The CEO’s New Social Network Strategy. Carter very effectively skewers both the distorted perspective many corporate leaders have about social networking and even moreover, the people with absolutely no field real field experience who then try to consult Read More...

Classmates Scraps IPO Plans

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

United Online (Nasdaq: UNTD) is scrapping its IPO plans for Classmates Media, which includes social networking pioneer Classmates.com and the popular MyPoints consumer loyalty site. What particularly called my attention to this was the analysis of it over at Fool.com by Rick Aristotle Munarriz, which echoes some of the things I had to say about Read More...

Beyond Sourcing – 15 Creative Ways Recruiters Can Use Professional Networking Sites

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I gave a presentation for ERE Media Tuesday entitled “Professional Networking – Beyond Sourcing”, which focused on the many ways that recruiters can use professional networking sites to support their business and their own career, not just for sourcing candidates. The way I see it, any hack can figure out how Read More...

Free Webinar – “Professional Networking: Beyond Sourcing”

Monday, December 10th, 2007

I’ll be giving a free webinar Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2-3pm ET, entitled Professional Networking – Beyond Sourcing, sponsored by ERE Media and LinkedIn. The event is intended for recruiters, and the gist of it is this: any hack recruiter can figure out how to search LinkedIn, Jobster, ZoomInfo and the blogosphere Read More...

The Times They Are A-Changing

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Cartoon by Peter Steiner in the July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20, p. 61).
Photo by CogDogBlog via flickr with lolcats text by Scott Allen.