I'm not really sure what this means. Usually it means that fairies are pulling the strings toward some good end. But then you watch a nature show and see some cute little animal end up as another's prey and you have to wonder if those fairies are really inclined to do the right thing.
I don't think Ma'am really believes. But she'd like to.
Bull Doza says:
I finally met Rayanne in person, and the word ‘groovy’ came to mind.... Rayanne was leading the flow of conversation.... Rayanne became a fixture among the RBC faithful present.
She barely breaks a sweat with all the lime light aura she pervades.... Rayanne can be observed as one of the growing fem fetales of smart, industrious female staffing professionals....
The RBC girls – social butterflies with their fluttering quips of bright insight have broadened the circling wagons to become ‘community’ in the most real sense of the word.
Rayanne consistently shows us - “Groove is In The Heart”!
[Is that like circumcize your heart?]
-- Heather Gardner, Twitter (June 03 2008)
What's up with Gautam Ghosh?. The Roti King is a giant in HR and recruiter blogging. He's the Chairman of the Board for Asia as far as I'm concerned.
And, yet, when he gets mentioned in the paper, he notes it under the headline "In The Company of Giants" as if he needs the presence of Om Malik, Rafat Ali and Amit Agarwal to make him seem like something. Come on, Gautam, shape up. How about this one? "Giants in the company of me".
Principal, AMG Management Advisors
"one of the most provocative and infectious of the new voices that have emerged in the industry," and as "fast becoming a central theorist and practitioner in 21st Century online recruiting".
Source: The Human Capital Institute
When I think about blogs I define them as non-corporate, non--managerial, ongoing communications. The voice of the free-wheelin' little guy, the heir of the fanzines.
But, I'm not as narrow-minded as that might sound. Three years ago, I was looking for a Director of Internal Communications for a large, international firm and I believed that a blog would have been a great way to let all of its 13,000 employees know what was going on.
I didn't expect the company blog to read like mine, but I didn't expect it to suck either, because a blog has to have some life to it or else it won't be read -- except by head and job hunters who are forced by necessity to snoop through masses of dull information.
So, I'm happy to report that (in my humble opinion) the Recruitosphere is still a living, breathing thing. And I've chosen to make this announcement today because I wanted to suck up to pay tribute to Papa John Sumser.
Why do I want to compliment John? Because, although his site doesn't look like a blog, he's a blogger in spirit and has been for a long time. And, the willingness of an industry fixture to indulge in bold, humourous criticism of the people and companies in his field reinforces the tone for everyone else.
Now, I didn't say Papa was always right. In fact, some people think he's a crank, inclined to act out his personal peeves in public. True or not, in blogging terms, that's a virtue. For, it's only those who are a little cranky who have a motive to shake things up. No one else wants to rock the boat.
So, let's say John is cranky; what could he be cranky about? Here's my guess. He uses the royal "we" but I think he's a militant populist.
I know he was open to regular conversations with Jay-Dee Jason Davis when the latter was a stranger and complete unknown. And Anthony and I were pleased to be noticed in his list of noteworthy bloggers in February 2005. Jay-Dee was there too but not the Microchicks. And why not? They were good bloggers but they worked for a big firm and my guess is that the honour was reserved for the little guys.
So why, then, did he go after JGo? Jobster was still new on the scene. But, maybe it seemed a little too cocky? It's possible, for a presumed arrogance was the red flag that led Papa to zing the Ma'am when she dismissed blog metrics with a wave of the hand.
But, Papa's not the only writer keeping it real, only the most prominent. Last week, Don JGo Jason Goldberg, king of Jobster, publicly taunted the boss of Indeed.com for not keeping his blog up to date. I liked it.
And, a couple of weeks ago I sent Louise Fletcher a blogswap posting which warned job hunters not to barf on their resumes. When I got a fast reply I thought she was sending it back but, no, she was thanking me for my delightful work.
And, of course, the Dog Lady knows how to take a joke. And, even the Ma'am -- who doesn't like to be mocked -- has it in her to write about peanut butter on a business site. She's not built for humour but she's not really strait-laced either. There's also Colin the Snob and the Marketing Headhunter; they're funny guys and there's more coming out of the woodwork all the time.
Amitai Givertz of Recruitomatic appeared out of nowhere, well-informed and with a pugnacious streak I can count on every day.
So, I'm just letting you know, Papa, that things are going well. Even as the virus spreads it hasn't lost its charm -- at least, not yet.
And, please, don't come after me for this critique of you. In writing this way, I'm only honouring you. (Amen.) And, finally, I'm not saying that the straight business writers are letting anyone down. Not at all. I'm only collecting examples of irreverent behaviour to indicate that the field as a whole has not yet been burdened by any staid, hidebound (life-threatening) protocols.
When Jim Stroud was a little boy he decided that he wanted to be a police detective.
Shaft was all the rage back then but Jim refused to be pidgeon-holed by narrow minds and, in the playground, he insisted that the other kids call him Dirty Jimmy after Dirty Harry Callaghan.
Jim never became a detective. He didn't want to deal with spineless politicians who were more interested in making the evening news than protecting their cities against deranged criminal minds. So he became an online sourcer which is a digital version of his childhood dream.
At the beginning of his career, he used to march around the office shouting, "Come on punk. Make my day. This is the most powerful search engine in the western world. You think you're going to get away from me? From ME !"
But, he changed as he got older and, now. I'd say he is more Shaft than Dirty Harry. Why, look at his motto, "Can you dig it?" You know what he's thinking:.
"Who's the "bad" online sourcer
That's a search machine for all the chicks?
Stroud. Can ya dig it?"
You bet I can. He's an innovative man whom no one understands but other bloggers. So I invited him to spend some time searching for a true blogger for our Post of the Week contest and, of course, he couldn't resist.
Jim is a Technical Sourcing Consultant for Microsoft but he's done everything in recruiting and worked with everyone too, including Google, Siemens, MCI and lots of start-ups. He's got a blog called Jim 2.0 and The Recruiters Lounge where he "gets diggy" wif famous recruiting personalities like..... like me, The Recruiting Animal, star of.....
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Here's Dirty Jimmy's bio on the Microsoft Jobs Blog.
Tom Lantos-- the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the US Congress-- has died at the age of 80.In 2006, Lantos was one of five members of Congress arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington while protesting the genocide in Darfur.
Lantos was also among the members of Congress who denounced US internet companies like Google, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft for cooperating with Chinese government efforts to control cyber dissent.
At a Congressional hearing last November, Lantos angrily took Yahoo executives to task for the company's role in ratting out dissident journalist Shi Tao to Chinese authorities.
“While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies,” Lantos told Jerry Yang, Yahoo's chief executive, and Michael J. Callahan, the general counsel. -- Harry's Place
Avoids taser in late-breaking Mittmania melee.
Venus was so excited at being caught up in a near-riot that she forgot to give us all the details. One thing I can tell you though, she sure loves Mitt.
The man who rules the Recruitosphere.
In a move that stunned the Recruitosphere, Dozy celebrated his special day the entire week by doubling the membership of Recruitingblogs.com from 1000 to 2000. His goal: to show the world that he is not getting older, he's getting better?
Last December Bull Doza demonstrated his control of the Recruitosphere by deciding who would win the Recruitingblogs Best Blog Awards. He made me the person of the year, Donuts-and-Oreos became the best technology blog after blogging for just a couple of months, The Recruiting Teddy Bear became best corporate blogger and so on.
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