Archive for September, 2007

Richard Becker promotes “Call To End Abuse”

Thank you Rich for bringing to my attention this worthy cause!
-Jim
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“Sept. 27. will be the first time in history that social network members will collectively promote a single social awareness issue on hundreds of blogs all over the world on the same day,” said Antony Berkman, president of BlogCatalog.com. “They chose the topic and it’s [...]


Beware “Perfect” Resumes

Wow! Did anybody happen to see the Dateline story about this con man who with the help of “perfect resumes” conned his way into multiple jobs.
Check it out…
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Say hello to Fred Brito, a smiling cherubic liar.
One day he was known as Father Fred, while on another, he was a high-profile fundraiser, getting chummy with Hollywood [...]


Personal branding has a blog

I received an interesting press release in email the other day. Here is the highlight…

DanSchawbel.com is the first website of its kind with a 360 degree representation of a Personal Brand. It breaks down Dan Schawbel’s Personal Brand into the four distinct elements of Personal Branding: personality, appearance, competencies and differentiation. The site also features [...]


Yahoo! Unleashes Mash Beta

I was at the OnRec2007 Conference last week and made some new friends. Among them Robert (Bob) Neelbauer of Jobmatchbox. So, okay, we traded emails before in the past, but never met face to face. It was a pleasure chatting with him and getting his perspective on social networks.
Actually, Bob was kind enough to grant [...]


SWEET! I’m in the Top 100 of HR Bloggers

Wow! Look what I got in my email the other day…

We recently published “Top 100 HR Bloggers.” I figured I’d bring it to your attention in case you think your readers would find it useful. I am happy to let you know that you have been included in this list.
SWEET!!!

Yay! Whoo-hooo… Go Jim!!! [...]


VIDEO - The Recruiters Lounge - Live at SourceCon2007 (Part 2)

Day Two at SourceCon2007

Jim Stroud interviews the attendees of SourceCon2007 to get the truth (and not the hype) of how successful it really was. FYI, make sure you watch it to the very end. A big - Thank You to SourceCon2007 (www.sourcecon1.com) for sponsoring this vidcast.

The Recruiters Lounge - Live at SourceCon2007 - Part [...]


VIDEO - The Recruiters Lounge - Live at SourceCon2007

Day One at SourceCon2007

Jim Stroud is the host with the most at the SourceCon2007 world premier event!  A big - Thank You to SourceCon2007 (www.sourcecon1.com) for sponsoring this vidcast. Day Two of SourceCon2007 will be published soon.

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SOURCECON - PHOTOS - Poker Tournament for Charity

In addition to all of the free-flowing knowledge, there were also plenty of poker chips and trash talking going on late (and very late) into the evening. The poker tournament raised $1,880.00 for the Positive Outlook Foundation –congratulations to the winner, Mr. Jeremy Langhans.
For the record, I do not know how to play Poker, but [...]


SOURCECON - From the desk of Leslie O’Connor

The kudos keep coming in from the SourceCon event. (Wow!) Here are a few quotes that have been piling up on the SourceCon desk. Congrats Leslie!
-Jim
“Hi Leslie, you have probably been bombarded with thank-you’s for such a fabulous event, but one more shouldn’t hurt. I had such a good time and I am grateful that [...]


SOURCECON VIDEO - Registration Day

You know, it has occurred to me that it may be better served to simply add the videos in one big movie file instead of one-by-one. So, here is a collection of videos from the Registration Day of SourceCon2007. LOTS more later…
Enjoy!

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