We just announced the first winner in our weekly cartoon caption contest - every week we awarded $50 Amazon certificate.

Here's one of the two cartoons we produced from our first contest:

It's free to use our cartoons in your blog or website - just see the …

A recurrent theme in blog posts and Tweets is that job boards are dying. Usually this is coupled with a prediction that they’ll be replaced by social media or Google. The popularity of this subject, in turn, spawns two questions:

1. Why is this such a popular topic?
   
   
2. Are job boards really dying?
   
   

We took on the subject of paid job sites this month at OnlineRecruitingNews.com:

From the start of job boards in the mid 1990s until now, the vast majority of job and career sites have worked on a simple economic model: job seekers don’t pay, employers do. In fact, the concept

of free access to a job site’s listings was so ingrained that…

"When you need something, you go to Google, so why not use it to find a job? Simply enter your criteria, say sales…

I spend the first 45 minutes of every day reading blogs and forum. It's healthy to read lots of different viewpoints and have a good picture of what's happening around us. But, it's also easy to learn the wrong things from the "experts". Years ago, there seem to be a consensus that reciprocal links no longer worked.

As a result, we abandoned the practice. The real lesson we should have learned was this -- reciprocal links became less effective, but so what? They were still a…