Lots of good stuff out there today.

Yahoo search rankings update - How is your site fairing?
Don’t piss off Google - Search giant goes after Facebook with OpenSocial.
Screw Google! - Learn how to market your company on Facebook.
Online shopping and surfing plagues employers - What’s your company doing about wasted time?
And of course, Happy Halloween! Heere’s […]

Anyone can be good at networking when the person in front of you is kind, scintillating and thinks you’re a rock star. The way you find out if you’re really good at networking is can you network with jerks.
The trick to being good at networking is to not be put off when someone does […]

Is Facebook worth $15B? That’s about 1/2 Amazon’s market cap. What do you think will be the most valuable aspects of Facebook?

A fun story by Amybeth Hale on the value of networks can be read on Jim Stroud’s blog. The other cool part about how this all came together is the value the recruiter, Nikole Hunt, played in ensuring Waggener Edstrom was able to bring in great talent. Nikole had the depth of understanding […]

Well, I received four comments on my first blog post so I’m going to address them one by one.
First, thanks to Nick for complimenting my post. I don’t know if I would go so far as to say it was the best post on the site, especially considering all the good authors Joel has […]

As a recruiter, it is your job to identify the most qualified and desirable candidate and snatch them up as quickly as possible. But you just got a letter from the head of HR telling you that you must conduct a background check before you officially hire them. You just know that the […]

The band Radiohead disrupted the music supply chain recently by removing all the traditional friction points in the music industry: labels, agents, distribution channels etc. The band went directly to ‘buyers’ using the internet allowing them to determine value and pay or not for downloading the music online. The disruptive move was met with much […]

Might be a mistake to sell any Monster Worldwide stock you currently hold. Or it may be a good time to buy. So says Barron’s via Blogging Stocks.com:
But it looks like the bad news is baked into the stock already. Keep in mind that Monster trades about 20 times the projected profits for 2008. Additionally, […]

Another fun clip to share for my fellow Colbert fans! Happy Weekend everyone!

In case you missed it - a little fun with Craig Newmark and Stephen Colbert