Thought For The Day: 6.1% Unemployment, what’s the peak going to be?
The Gates-Seinfeld Commercial I thought they were retired. If this is brand resurrection, it’s going to be a Linux world. (Another member of the head scratching club)
U.S. Mortgage Foreclosures, Delinquencies Reach Highs It’s ugly and it’s just getting started.
Researchers Build Malicious Facebook Application Security […]

(September 04, 2008) Thanks for patiently wading through the descriptions of Population Pyramids over the past week. I am struggling to make the idea simple enough for popular consumption. I think that population distribution maps have the potential to be very useful tools in the development of Recruiting Strategy, among other things.
Now that we have […]

Thought For The Day: 
What will happen when the Retirement age is formally raised to 75?
1020 Placecast serves location-based ads on Eventful
This technology is worth watching and understanding. Since Recruiting is fundamentally local, mobile advertising based on geography will be a very obvious growth spot.
Where are your clicks coming from? (Geographically speaking)
Google is refining their […]

(September 03, 2008) Here’s an example of a population pyramid (Canada, 1961). The left side is a bar graph that describes the percentage of men in a given age bracket. The right side describes the distribution of women by age. The term “pyramid” refers to the shape of the diagram.
 
You can see that the pyramid […]

Thought For The Day:
Social software tools are not the property of just one part of the organization. A company’s social software strategy needs to integrate all facets of the business.
Gannett Pays Tribune $135 Million To Acquire Majority Stake In CareerBuilder
Here’s the release. This investment pegs the value of CareerBuilder at $1.35B or 55% […]

(September 02, 2008) Good conversations have give and take. It’s hard to do that when there’s a lot of shouting. It’s hard to do that when manners get left at the door.
“An ad hominem argument consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the […]

Thought For The Day: Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King)
Let’s Face It, This Isn’t a Job for Supernanny A craigslist recruiting story. Authenticity makes for great recruiting.
Google Announces Chrome Web Browser The war to become the next generation operating system escalates. See this
Why Twitter […]

Thought For The Day: You don’t need to know anything about trees to see the forest. You need to know everything about trees to use the forest.
Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis? “Taking risks and failing is one of the most critical aspects of innovation.”
Is Social Media Relevant To Recruiting? Jim Durbin asks […]

(August 28, 2008) Conversation is a difficult standard to achieve online in a public forum. The crossfire reciprocal shouting model in which each commentator is an advocate for a preexisting point of view is good entertainment. It’s really bad conversation.
There are not many examples of nuanced movement towards a shared understanding of a new […]

Thought For The Day: It’s the 21st Century, baby.
Strengthening the study of computer science. "Recently, our educational outreach group, University Programs, and Diversity and Talent Inclusion teams joined forces to create the Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI). This special institute included an interactive and collaborative CS curriculum, as well as a living-learning residential experience for […]