Digital Sourcer

I’ve been tinkering with LinkedIn’s corporate solution for the past 6-7 months and can easily say that the ability to search the (entire) rapidly growing LI population warrants the purchase of a single seat.  The free account only lets members search and view up to 3 degrees of the LI population, and growing one’s network [...]

There’s been a lot of blogging activity recently on the topic of Data Visualization across social networks.  Facebook shared a video yesterday that shows the interaction of Facebook users across the globe.  (Skip to the middle for the good stuff)  Mashable also listed a few videos, they’re not your typical pie chart.
This reminds me of [...]

If you had $1000 to spend on a particular job, what would you do?  Would you source? Would you post?  Where do you begin?
Now think about a $500, $250 or $50 per job allowance, where do you start now?
The recruiting process should not depend on the amount of money in your budget.  Many times, recruiters [...]

No longer late-breaking news, but thought the guys at pbwiki.com did a great job with their viral job marketing campaign.  3 days ago, this picture was uploaded to digg.com, it was the number one (dugg) item for the day and has now been tagged 4444 times.  Some folks thought it was kinda funny, others noticed [...]

Search stemming (also known as wild card (*) search) searches the root of a word and returns all letter combinations (tenses) of the word in the search results.  For example, searching for the words (analyzing, analyzed or analysis), simply search the wild card “analy* ” or in some engines including Google “analy”, when no wild [...]

Next Steps for Search?  Collaborative and customizable search results.  Two major players, Google and the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, are tackling this challenge.  SearchWiki will allow for customizable results shown only to the user, this seems more similar to bookmarking than tweaking Google’s super-secret search algorithm.  However, there is an option to “see how [...]

Many think of Craigslist as a great cheap place to post jobs, but forget there are also thousands of resumes from which to source.
New York City resumes, Albany resumes, Long Island Resumes, etc, all have their own resume micro site.  While they are each a great pool for potential talent, it can be a challenge [...]

Ben Fry’s Zipdecode tool is over 4 years old, but I’m still impressed with its elegant design, usability and representation of every day data.  Still trying to fine tune this from a sourcing standpoint, but for some reason it helps me to visualize this site when I’m thinking about zip code radius search.  there are [...]

Well, buying a domain from GoDaddy through Google Apps, and turning around to host via GoDaddy has been a bit confusing. Think I will go back to buying domains directly through Go Daddy, easier to add Google Apps and Webmaster tools later.