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Cosmic Heavyweights in Free-For-All: One of the most complex galaxy clusters, located about 5.4 billion light years from Earth., originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution.

Yo, space is cool

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I’ve been thinking about what Community means.

I spend a lot of time online (sadly) and I have spent a great deal of time (too much time, actually) developing and building online communities… or so I thoug[ht. In fact, I now believe strongly that you should spend as much as 10x the time you spend making online friends in connecting with real-life humans.  This might be a good reason why.]

To me, I belive there may be a few requirements that make a difference between just “people you know” and “Community”.

1. Investment: People in the community feel ownership, likely because something is on the line if they don’t… like property values, their children’s education, social benefits, etc.
2. Emotional Connection: This means you actually care (or something that approximates human caring).  You can notice this when you can’t be a part of the community, you feel like you’ve missed out.
3. Sacrifice: When someone else in the community needs help, you’re willing to put aside your own self-interest for the benefit of others… because you know they’d do the same for you.

That’s my list… what’s yours?

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Staffing.org (no permalink to article) presents some great insight into the staffing and recruiting industry. Their analysis is good and balanced.

They recently posted findings regarding the differences in recruitment candidate sourcing or attraction methods across different geographic areas in the US: West, Midwest, South and Northeast.  Their findings are interesting (see graph at side) but one item in their analysis caused me to pause:

“As far as recruiting in particular is concerned, there are no secrets. The tools of the trade have been universal for decades, which makes the divergent sourcing patterns in the U.S. regions all the more interesting” (emphasis added)

I agree that there are many tools of the recruiting industry that are well-known, but is it really true that there are no secrets left in recruiting?  Is there really nothing new or innovative or different about recruiting today?

As an executive, are you willing to leave your most crucial decisions (who you hire) to methods that have been in place, unchallenged and unchanged, since WWII?

In an age with unprecedented global competition for talent AND the most-serious global economic thin-ice in four generations, how can executives can be remotely pleased to learn that under the hood of their recruiting strategy, they are really just doing the same things over again, just now with different names?

The staffing article brings this thought around in full-circle with the summary:

“There’s a lot of corporate habit embedded in corporate recruiting programs… We like to suppose that this reflects… unique ways of doing things that have been proven by long experience. But often this is not the case. There may often be nothing deeper at work than doing things the way they’ve always been done, for no particular reason that anyone can recall.” (emphasis added)

This is one of the reasons I aligned with EnticeLabs — their raw, unbiased innovation in a space plagued with ugly, technically inept ideas and tools that, sadly, have still been an improvement over the incumbent ideas and options.

Is it about time your recruiting strategy took a leap forward instead of just repeating old mistakes with new technologies? If so, TalentSeekr by EnticeLabs may be exactly what you need to grow your recruiting capability almost overnight by 2x or 10x or more.

Learn more through our video (watch BOTH of them) and let me know if I can answer any questions you have.

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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another"
–Luciano de Crescenzo

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In the latest of the “I’m a Mac… and I’m A PC” ads, Apple takes Microsoft head on for their “laptop hunter” ads.

To me, turnabout is fair play, because the worst marketing move Microsoft could EVER make is to directly TALK OPENLY about Apple.

Calling them “the OS that shall not be named” would be more effective.
[Hat tip to GeekSugar]

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"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf."
- American Indian Proverb

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Having worked at a certain web analytics company in my life, we had more dashboards than you can shake a blackberry at.

Dogbert tells us why Dashboards really exist…

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From Wikipedia:

A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Clearly a blog (noun) is a website, or the collection of postings, notes, rants, pictures of your kittens, or whatever.

Or, to blog (verb) or blogging represents the act of writing entries to your web_log.

Somewhere along the way, it became popular to refer to an individual post on a blog as “a blog” in and of itself. This would be like referring to each individual entry in your journal as your journal.

Does anybody else see the confusion?
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Twittering takes too long. 140 chars? Plz.

[Hat tip to Richard Bliss for pointing this out]

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