It's quiet right now... deafeningly quiet. It used to be that the office was abuzz with murmured telephone conversations, the "hold" buttons on the phone lighted up and twinkling, reminding us that more than one person had called us at once and were waiting patiently to speak with us. Now we are making calls out and receiving calls in, but it seems as though they are less fruitful. And less frequent. I actually jumped in my chair a little bit when the phone rang in here about an hour ago.

Always a challenging recruiting month for our industry, this December is hauntingly silent. Things are happening but at a snail's pace, and I'm a little concerned for our placement pipeline...

Still - we have been through downturns before and we know that we will get through this one as well. So in the meantime, we are flexing our internet search muscles, calling candidates and clients whom we haven't heard from in a while, and revamping our website.

I am a creature of habit - I tend to look at things and get really comfortable with the way they are. Reviewing our web site and applying a fresh eye towards its revamp can be a little difficult for me but somehow I managed to rack up about three pages of "revisions" to send off to our webmaster. These changes should make us bigger, faster, stronger.

We are also looking at adding company facebook, myspace and twitter pages to our site. This will be my job - to flesh out these ideas and decide if they are worth the time and trouble; does anyone else's professional site have their social networking sites linked out directly from the main corporate site? Is it worth the time?

Are you interested in hearing about the varied musical tastes that we recruiters have here at The Creative Network? Would you like to know my favorite color? Or should it be strictly business, like telling everyone about my favorite brand of highlighter, the strange sense of calm that a full Post-It holder seems to bring me, or my complete inability to keep my "in" box empty?

Capitalizing on this downtime to be sure that we're on the cutting edge of Recruiting/Web 2.0 is my way of taking lemons and making a lemon drop, er, lemonaid. Yea, that's it. Lemonaid. Let me know how you all are keeping busy!