Seems my 25-minute interview at the Electronic Retailing Association annual conference last November has made its way to YouTube:
I cover a lot of ground — the state of social media and social networking, internet radio, working for b5media and About.com, and more. If we haven’t gotten to meet face-to-face and you ever wondered what I [...]
I’ll be giving a free webinar Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2-3pm ET, entitled Professional Networking - Beyond Sourcing, sponsored by ERE Media and LinkedIn. The event is intended for recruiters, and the gist of it is this: any hack recruiter can figure out how to search LinkedIn, Jobster, ZoomInfo and the blogosphere to source candidates, [...]
It seems I’ve been meme-tagged, so what better excuse to poke my head out from a several-week hiatus, eh? Ali over at Greener Assets has tagged me for the “7 random things about me that you might not know” meme.
So here we go…
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