Maureen Sharib's Blog – February 2009 Archive (26)

Animal show postponed to 12:30p.m. EST due to technical problems.

Animal Show - 12:30 EST - Feb 04, 2009A
GUEST: Jenny DeVaughn

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Anybody using Google Latitude?

Google Latitude, a Location Based social network for the phone - are you using? How?

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Rise of Online Journalism: Blogs Come of Age

"...has online journalism merely grown to be important enough that it's time that reporting and professionalism standards need to rise?" More here.

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CA: Over 50% unemployment in recruiting?

Poll created (Yahoo NoCA group) for pulse on recruiter job…

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Handing Out Pink Slips Hurts

NYTimes article - very human:

I spoke and told everyone that our biggest expense was headcount and that we had to lay a few people off. I said that the executives were going to leave the room, call people out one by one, and help those whose jobs were being eliminated to pack. We hoped to save them from embarrassment. ~ Matt Cooper, vice president of Accolo, a recruitment outsourcing company

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Added by Maureen Sharib on February 3, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Facebook, LinkedIn, XING and Whatever Happened to Myspace?

Today on the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat we're going to be talking about the social networks we're using and what we like/don't like about each. I saw an interesting remark from Harold Meller over on Facebook today to John Sumser about the evolution of a couple of the social networks - it asked: Is Facebook Taking Out Linkedin? My usage over the last…

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Added by Maureen Sharib on February 3, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment