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Credit Card Companies: Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You

Posted in Current Affairs, Economy, Human Resources, Organizations, Talent Management, Technology, Web 2.0 on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It seems everybody these days knows more about what’s going on inside the heads of our employees than we do.  Whether Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Friendfeed, Diigo, Del.icio.us – name a web 2.0 company and they probably have better data on your employees’ skills, preferences, interests, worries, etc. than you do.
Credit companies also seem to [...]

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My Big Technology Decision

Posted in Innovation, Organizations, Technology, Web 2.0 on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I gave in.  Finally.  I moved my blog to WordPress.
LOGISTICAL SIDE NOTE:  If you read/subscribe to my blog, DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING!  The zapaterismo.com domain and feedburner feed are now both mapped to WordPress, so 99% of you should not have to do a thing.  BUT, if you have issues, please let me know.
I had checked [...]

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Enterprise Search Analytics and Talent Management

Posted in Current Affairs, Human Resources, Innovation, Organizations, Talent Management, Technology, Web 2.0 on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

ZDNet wrote up a nice review of Wolfram/Alpha's demo of their new search engine at Harvard recently.
The demo was webcast and a recording can be found here.

What's it mean for HR and talent management?  A lot, I think. One of the next big moves as far as talent management technology goes – a move that [...]

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The Death of the Resume: RIP

Posted in Human Resources, Organizations, Talent Management, Technology on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Originally uploaded by cstein96

Try this exercise:

Write down your job title.
Write down your job responsibilities and the skills required to do your job. And BE HONEST!  
Go to Monster.com and perform a search for your job using your current title.
See how many jobs come up and, for those that appear, compare the job responsibilities and qualifications required with [...]

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If you only read one article all week…

Posted in Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, Organizations, Talent Management, Technology, Web 2.0 on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

…Let it be this one! 

Link to article

Ellen McGirt is an outstanding staff writer for Fast Company, and she has done a wonderful job in this article of making the business rationale for enterprise 2.0 come to life.

Two things that stood out to me in reading this article - 

The very explicit recognition that getting companies to [...]

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Ning: Fomenting Black Swans

Posted in Books, Technology, Web 2.0 on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

A couple of months back, Fast Company did a feature article on Ning, Marc Andreessen (co-author of Mosaic and founder of Netscape) and Gina Bianchini's new venture that revolves around social networks.  

At the time when I read that article, all of the talk of "viral expansion loops" and "double viral loops" made me roll my [...]

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SaaS in a recession

Posted in Economy, Talent Management, Technology on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From bocavermelha-l.b.'s outstanding photostream 

Another interesting little article on the opportunity and threat the economic downturn presents to SaaS vendors.  It will no doubt be exciting to watch what happens in the talent management space as the U.S. and the world work their way through these tough times.

Link here

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Marketing in a downturn

Posted in Economy, Talent Management, Technology on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I randomly heard this story on NPR's All Things Considered earlier this evening. 

Link to abstract and audioThey make some great points in the four minutes of audio, including the counter-intuitive nature of marketing spend – since marketing budgets are most often calculated as a % of revenue, companies tend to cut back on marketing when [...]

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That didn’t take long

Posted in Organizations, Technology, Web 2.0 on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My search for inspiration has already yielded some fruit.

Sent to me my good friend, Adam.  Now, this is cool.

http://karlkapp.blogspot.com/2008/11/pharmaceutical-leveraging-web-20-in-big.html

2500 contributors to Pfizerpedia.  
And a PFacebook in the works.  

I love it.

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Sameness is boringness

Posted in Human Resources, Talent Management, Technology on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I've been extremely quiet lately, a trend that you've likely observed from me over the last 3-6 months.  I'm still around and still very much involved in the world of talent management technology.  But I'm finding the latest and greatest in the HCM to be a bit of a yawn (particularly, perhaps, when compared with [...]

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