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ERE Webinar from 3/29/2011 presented by Carmen Hudson.
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Hiding in Plain Site Finding Talent in the Blogosphere
Presented by Carmen Hudson Engagement Manager, Sourcing and Social Media Recruiting Toolbox
Hello!
• About Carmen • Today’s discussion – Focus on sourcing – finding candidates on
existing blogs – Creating and writing blogs – not so much – Resources page for all links
• Real-time – your questions, comments, tweets welcomed (hashtag: #blogrecruit)
"A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.”
--Wikipedia
156 million blogs since 1997
Bloggers are typically mid-career
Why bloggers blog
• Resumes • Comments • Followers • Blogrolls • Content/links • Social networks • Is it part of a blog network?
Mining blogs
• Blogging Platforms • Blogging Search Engines • Boolean Magic • Social Bookmarking • Social Networks • Q&A Sites
Finding blogs
Blogging platforms
Blog search engines
Social Bookmarking
• site:wordpress.com (lamp | agile | php) "developer" seattle -how -write -job –apply
• site:blogspot.com "social media" "marketing coordinator" location -how -write -apply
Boolean magic
Q&A, Social Collaboration
Social networks
• RSS • Read Later • Spreadsheet/CRM • Social Bookmarks • Data extraction tools • First contact letters
Productivity and organization
• AboutCarmen • Recruiting Toolbox • Tweetajob • Blogpulse • Sysomos (social media demographics) • 11 Characteristics of Successful Blog(gers) • Wordpress • Blogger • Posterous • Tumblr • LiveJournal • Alltop • Technorati • 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking
Websites • Quora • StackOverflow • Github
Resources
• Netvibes • Delicious • Tweetmeme • Reddit • Friendfeed • Instapaper • Broadlook • eGrabber • Contact Capture (free)
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