Some of my fellow Microsoft corporate bloggers have gone a bit dark. Robert Scoble , Lenn Pryor , come back! I suspect that are doing work on Channel 9 , among other things. And I know that they are spending time talking to people about blogging (like...

One of the things I am focused on in my work is creating a positive experience for applicants and candidates. Part of that is working in a content overhaul on our marketing careers site . I worked on this the last time we updated the content and that...

Today I spoke with Sid, who handles "alliances" for the Silicon Valley American Marketing Association . Sounds like I am going to be heading back down to the Valley to talk with their group and do some exploratory interviews in October (Sid's clearing...

news stories about blogging. I'm trying to find good media quotes about blogging for my presentation (then I get to call my slides "done" and work on something else!) but there's too much noise in google for me to find it quickly. If you have a good media...

Wired News article: "We're All Journalists Now". Xeni Jardin talks to Dan Gillmore, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and opinion leader on media and technology: In his new book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, forthe People ,...

Good article today on MSN: Online Social Networks Go To Work . Most of the articles I've read so far have really only introduced the idea of social networking and highlighted its "coolness". In this article Xeni does a good job of peeling back the onion...

I have a basket in my office that I dump articles, business magazines, long e-mails into. I don't want my desk to get all cluttered up with stuff and there doesn't seem to be an obvious time to tackle the reading I need to do. Once or twice, I've grabbed...

I've always loved doing research. OK, well, not always, but ever since I became a grown-up. One of the things that I like most about my job is that I am often given a problem to solve, the resources to solve it and the autonomy to get it done. There's...

I just read that Zach Braff, the actor on Scrubs and new filmmaker (Garden State), is blogging . Cool...I think. This may be an interesting experiment on what happens when your blog becomes your corporate website, Hollywood style. I mean, how do you read...

Now that I have had my Tivo for a few months, I have been getting used to a life with less advertising. My ability to fast forward through commercials plus my use of software that blocks pop-up advertisements, has really limited the number of marketing...

Back when I started my recruiting career, job fairs were a staple of the recruiter role. I lived in Chicago and, being a big city, with lots of people and lots of job openings, I knew that many people would be matched up with potential opportunities at...

So I presented my blog site yesterday to that group of staffing industry folks. And while I got many comments about how cool it was, I doubt that there will be a bunch of recruiting blogs popping up next week. We talked about how I use my blog to share...

Hey, fellow bloggers out there, what are the free blog tools that you would recommend for recruiters that want to start a blog? What are the best aggregator tools for people that want to read blogs? Us recruiters, we tend to be non-technical folks...

One of the highlights of my day today was getting an opportunity to imitate Jessica Simpson in front of a room of staffing industry leaders. If you ever have a chance, try to find a way to say something really stupid to a group of really smart people...

You know how sometimes when the bagger at the grocery store calls you “sir” or “ma'am”, you start to doubt your coolness (if the checker cards you for alcohol, it lessens the sting though)? If you are under 30, just wait, it's...

One of my co-workers told me that I was the top ranked google result for the words “marketing”, “recruiting” and “blog”. I guess I kind of already figured that. Because last week I asked you where all of the recruiting...

A few weeks ago, I stopped into Chili's with a friend for a beer. I noticed a wine store next door called “Grape Escape” (no web site to link to but they are in Crossroads Shopping Center) and loving wine as much as I do, I went inside. Just...

Most recruiters looks at hundreds, possibly thousands of resumes a week. As much as I'd like to tell you that a recruiter thoroughly reviews your entire resume before making a decision on whether to contact you, that's usually not true (hint: the top...