Every cloud has a silver lining…and it’s yours

Sunday, March 22, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  Asides, Cloud Computing, Emerging Trends

An interesting post and comments on ReadWriteWeb…
Dave Winer yesterday announced EC2 for Poets, a step-by-step guide to help you create a server on Amazon’s EC2. His how-to is so easy to understand that we had our own server up and running within the hour. Sure, it may not seem like much that this fairly uninteresting [...]

Mobile Social Web: 975 Million Users By 2012

Sunday, February 1, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  Asides, Emerging Trends, Mobile 2.0, Mobile Trends, Surveys and Data

Interesting commentary from ReadWriteWeb…
The next big trend for social networking is the rise of the mobile social network. Gen Y’s cell phone addiction has given way to a proliferation of these mobile networks, each one trying to be the MySpace of the mobile web. The number of users on these services is growing fast – [...]

Mobile SMS: When you’ve got initiative there are no limits!

Sunday, January 18, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  Asides, Mobile 2.0, SMS, Surveys and Data

Interesting post from Scott Gordon on RecruitingBlogs.com:
I honestly think that this is outstanding. I want to hire her..and hire her now. The recruiter at what ever cell phone provider she uses should be on her like stink. Who better to market their devices other than a girl that can send 484 text messages per day??
I [...]

Michael Marlatt on XtremeRecruiting.tv (Part 1)

Monday, January 12, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  CloudRecruiting.net, Emerging Trends, Mobile 2.0, Mobile Recruiting, Mobile Trends, Presentations, SMS, Videos, Virtual Work, Web 2.0

Bill Vick’s interview with Michael Marlatt for XtremeRecruiting.tv – Mobile Recruiting (Part 1). Click through to the blog to view the video…

You’re hired! Cross-media job search nets qualified applications

Saturday, January 10, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  Asides, Emerging Trends, Mobile 2.0, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Recruiting, On the Radar, Prototypical, Recruitment, SMS

We often talk creative ways in which we can leverage mobile marketing in the recruitment process.  More Mobile Relations utilized an integrated solution that included print, ad, SMS, MMS, and email to recruit qualified candidates.  Here’s a case of a company truly “walking-the-talk” with great success.
This from More Mobile Relations:
The challenge

Attracting the best employees [...]

How the Virtual Workforce Is Changing Everything

Thursday, January 8, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  Asides, Emerging Trends, Virtual Work

The ECT News Network picked this up:
Crowdsourcing and telecommuting are conspiring to reinvent the traditional notion of a job. No longer is the one-employer model the only game in town. Some companies have found that work done by freelancers may be of better quality than what they were used to getting from their in-house employees.
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