080923 Daily Links (Sep 23, 2008)

By John Sumser | Published: September 22, 2008

Thought For The Day: Why aren’t more business get-togethers about having fun?
Building A Successful Job Board
Very interesting conversation featuring several bright lights from the industry. A job board is best understood as a marketplace. What makes them great (and successful) is when both sides of the market get more value than they expend. It’s tough work, like building any business. The reason most job boards flop (or worse, die a whimpering death) is that their owners can not get their arms around a real business model that involves real results for real people.
Rocking Recruitfest – Tantalizing Toronto – Jubliant Jason – 2008 – Things I learnt!!!!!!!
The very essence of community.
Recruitfest, the Video
Feel the energy
State of the Blogosphere 2008: Technorati Numbers Indicate Blogging Is Niche and Slowing
"The average number of monthly unique visitors reported by these bloggers? In the US it’s only 18,000. That means 600 people per day. 600 people reading your thoughts each day is pretty fabulous for the vast majority of people on the planet, but as media goes it’s not very mainstream. Especially if there are only a million and a half people doing it."
Why Isn’t Facebook Making More Money? (Hint: Advertiser Value and User Value Are Not Aligned)
Read this if you want to make money with a social network.

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