Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion

ERE Media CEO David Manaster is rolling out a revamped ERE network complete with a bevy of new (and old) features.

A preview of the community can be found here. Manaster is encouraging ERE members and guests to sample the site’s offerings and leave feedback.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Easier to use. You will find it easier to post discussion messages, and you’ll be able to add links, pictures and HTML.
• Threaded Discussions. To make it easier to follow conversations in the longer threads, all the discussions are now threaded.
• Community voting. We’re testing a new voting system for determining which discussion messages are most valuable to readers. The best content will be voted up to the top of threads by the community.
• Activity Feed. There is now a central activity feed for all activity on the ERE Network.
• Blogs. Every person in the ERE Network now has a Blog. Blog posts will have more prominence within the community, and they are working on integrating the best posts into the main feed on the home page to highlight the best content created by ERE members.
• ERE Forum. The ERE Forum — a single, central place to post messages where everyone can see them without joining the smaller, specialized, groups, is back.
• Following. Everyone has their favorite contributors on the network, and they’ve made it easier to follow just the ERE Members that you want. This will replace the notion of “friends”, which as several members pointed out does not have a lot of practical use.

I find the Activity Feed to be one of the most useful components because it lets me see in real time who is responding to what thread and what new discussions are brewing. However, I did notice that each time someone joined a group, that activity posted, so if someone joins twenty groups, the visitors have to scroll through these messages to get to the real meat: those discussion threads.

On the right-hand side members are able to access blogs, articles, and job postings. So it’s like a recruiting cafeteria where you can pick and choose from a list of entrees and sides. Best of all, it’s still the same great content that we’ve come to expect from the folks at ERE.

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