March, 2009

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?Fundraising When Money is Tight? Teleseminar (A Summary)

Forum One

I?ve just attended a teleconference sponsored by Network for Good called ?Fundraising When Money is Tight.? Mal Warwick has just written a book with this title, available at Amazon , on specific things you can do to minimize your costs and ensure that your organization is in a position to resume growth when the crisis passes (and it will!). Let me say that the teleconference was attended by 3,200 people!

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Email Marketing Demo: Tracing Who Accesses Your Website

Staffing Talk

Is there still life to email marketing? It may seem like no given all the irrelevant emails we get all day, but if it’s done right with an integrated database that allows you to deliver targeted, relevant messages then the answer is an overwhelming yes. In this clip I demonstrate the traceable url features of Tempworks Enterprise which allow you to see who is accessing your website and which pages they find interesting.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources. (See Thomas Friedman?

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources. (See Thomas Friedman?

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Shovel Ready Civic Projects #2: A News Portal for Global Health

Forum One

In the midst of an economic downturn, it might seem that people dying half a world away is somewhere down the priority list. Bill Gates, in his recent famous mosquito-releasing speech , talked about the economic impact of the burden of disease: for example, the 200 million people who are sick with malaria at any given time aren't able to contribute, solve problems, get educated, or help make the world a better and safer place.

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Seattle Data for Global Health roundtable

Forum One

Roundtable meetings are becoming a way of life in Seattle these days. Two weeks ago Forum One's Seattle office convened a group of Global Health web communicators and talked in depth about using social media to build connections and awareness. Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices.

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Perfect Storm for Government Innovation Online: Vivek Kundra

Forum One

The Obama Administration announced yesterday what had been widely expected, that Vivek Kundra, former Chief Technology Officer of the Washington DC government, would be taking on the role of Federal Chief Information Officer. It's a pretty exciting development! It feels like a perfect storm in DC these days for innovation in the how government uses information technology - with Kundra's appointment, the Administration's leadership in transparency and participation online through the campaign and

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The Value Proposition of Transparency

Forum One

Over the weekend I also had the fantastic opportunity to attend Transparency Camp '09. Having worked in the government sector in the past and been frustrated with my own inability to forge change across the vast bureaucracy, I was re-inspired that change IS coming, thanks to 300 passionate government, non-profit, and private sector folks. The barcamp format of the event worked nicely with the topic, and the fact that most participants were live Twittering the different sessions made it easy for

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Plant 1000 flowers (but encourage consistency and learn as you go)

Forum One

I attended a session called "a Day in the Life of a Federal Web Manager" at the Transparency Camp in DC this weekend, and we had a very interesting discussion about the tension that large organizations face with respect to letting different departments and groups at their organization experiment with web 2.0 tools. Federal government web managers and IT staff (and their peers at large nonprofits and foundations) face a constant and growing barrage of requests from departments, initiatives, progr

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Job Opportunity - Community & Product Manager, RarePlanet.org

Forum One

No - really. In these troubled times, you can still find a really cool job with a great organization and do good in the world in the process. Rare , an innovative global conservation organization based in Arlington, VA , is hiring! Rare has recently launched RarePlanet.org , and online community for conservation practitioners, particularly those participating in Rare's Pride program.

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Live from Transparency Camp '09 in DC

Forum One

I had a great time yesterday at Transparency Camp '09 in DC - kudos to Peter Corbett , and Gabriela Schneider and Clay Johnson and others at Sunlight Foundation , as well as others for catalyzing it. There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC. There really are a lot of amazing people working on web technology, strategy and policy in the DC area.

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Worried Google Struggles with Layoffs, Bugs and Competition

Staffing Talk

Poor Google has more to worry about than its reputation recently tarnished by layoffs. The advertising giant just can’t seem to get its act together with its signature adwords program and meanwhile a deft competitor is getting set to eat its lunch. The layoffs in and of themselves are not alarming in light of the recession and tightened online advertising budgets, but for a company that used viral video clips to extol its employee-friendly policies like free haute cuisine, even a hint of layoff

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Going Green and Other News from Tempworks

Staffing Talk

Cory Hintz has served up several posts on Tempworks. This one details Tempworks long relationship with a franchised Manpower labor operation in Florida. This one talks about the Staffing Industry Forum we attended in Florida last week (yes, some people are still going to conferences!). This one details new Tempworks software features for customer discounts (discounts are a great sales tactic these days).

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Gas or SAAS? The Reality Behind Salesforce.Com’s Cloud Computing

Staffing Talk

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a world class marketer, and his company offers a great sales automation product. But sometimes even the most clever overplay a strong hand as he has done in projecting his company’s Force.Com as a leader in cloud-computing based on-demand application development. Here is Salesforce’s marketing spin on its service: “The Force.com platform provides the tools to enable a new era of on-demand applications that bring the power and success of Salesforce to your whole com

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Time Clock Software Release Announcement

Staffing Talk

Here’s the link to the Time Clock page on our website: [link] and here is a link to the announcement: [link] It is with great pleasure that Tempworks announces an upcoming release of its time clock system that incorporate the following changes: Bug Fixes 1)New clockID metrics for partnership, use more unique information to avoid duplicate hardware IDs in certain systems, no longer use MAC addresses.

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Lack of Integration Harms Staffing Companies

Staffing Talk

Staffing entrepreneurs are a pretty resourceful bunch. They combine a lot of great characteristics – industry knowledge, passion, negotiation skills – to make themselves stand out and succeed. In this clip I identify a problem that comes from having all those great skills together, that of tending to over-analyze each aspect of their business and picking seeming best-of-breed approaches for everything from worker comp to funding to payroll and marketing.

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How to Overcome the Problems with Vendor Management

Staffing Talk

Temporary Staffing Vendor Management Systems (VMS) have promised everything from lower costs to better recruiting and efficiencies for everyone involved. However, as the bankruptcy of the Chimes VMS entity demonstrated, the results have fallen far short of those promises. But we don’t need to look at the high-profile failures to understand the inherent flaws of traditional VMS.

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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How Assumptions Can Kill You

Staffing Talk

[i wrote this story a year or so ago; i’m updating it now for a new series of posts on negotiation as it relates to staffing and software] Assumptions can cost you dearly. One I made once almost cost me my life. This story takes place in the Amish country in southern Minnesota near Canton in 1987. I would travel down there periodically from Rochester where my wife was going to Mayo Medical School to buy walnut and cherry wood.

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How to Publicize Your Job Board and Eliminate Monster Fees

Staffing Talk

In the last segment I talked about the candidate poaching that compounds the problem of expensive job board posting fees. In response, the StaffingRobot postulated that avoiding Monster was tantamount to not participating in the marketplace. Au contraire… In this clip I show how you can become the marketplace, the direct provider of job and candidate information to your immediate markets and beat the major job boards at their own game.

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How to Fix the Monster Problem of Candidate Poaching

Staffing Talk

It’s March, and a snow storm is about to besiege Minnesota which has me dreaming of California and the idea that I could actually be outside playing tennis and engaging in my most favorite doubles-tennis ploy, poaching. Few things are more satisfying or demoralizing in tennis than poaching an opponent’s great forehand with a smash aimed at their jewels.

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Email Magic Trick for Recruiting Industry Marketers

Staffing Talk

A client asked me to day if Tempworks was keeping up with Salesforce, and I shared that Salesforce indeed emerged as a best-of-breed sales automation platform a few years back but that nowadays they are pushing harder cloud computing and their platform for allowing external applications like state-of-the-art email marketing services or ERP to integrate with them.

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How to Decrease Costs and Increase Engagement - The HR Playbook

Preparing for the future in this volatile economy means making some tough decisions. You must trim costs and run a lean operation while still managing to motivate and engage employees so morale doesn’t take a hit. In Paycor’s new whitepaper, we share 13 practical ideas to accomplish both of those objectives. Download our new guide to see how it’s done.

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Staffing SEO and the Impending Death of Monster Boards

Staffing Talk

For search engine optimization experts in the staffing industry (aka ‘Staffing SEOs’), eliminating traditional advertising costs like Monster is job #1. So we watch with great interest the latest search engine trends as discussed by the big names in optimization like Search Engine Land , Matt Cutts , ThinkSEM and Aaron Wall and the brouhaha over an impending change to Google search results alternatively known as the ‘Brand’ or ‘Vince’ update.

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What the Newspaper Said to the Search Engine…

Staffing Talk

Ironically, the cartoon below is from the New Yorker , a print magazine whose existence is threatened (disclosure: I’ll personally stay a loyal print subscriber until the very end and may just buy a Kindle to keep reading it if the print version goes away). I could have titled this post “What the National Staffing Company Said to the Agile Start-up”.

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French Town Under Google Curse

Staffing Talk

If you’ve ever thought your staffing company doesn’t get its share of search listings on Google, then you should really pity a place call “Eu” in France which is situated between Le Havre and Calais along the English channel – smack dab in the middle of calamity territory like the allied invasion, la bataille d’Azincourt and if not mistaken a major WWI death zone, Amiens.

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New Revenue Stream Opportunity for Tempworks Clients

Staffing Talk

Today Tempworks entered into its first affiliate relationship with a client to resell our payroll processing services. Although affiliate selling has some bad connotation, this is one of those float-all-boats deals – let me explain. Currently, for the price an organization pays for payroll processing from ADP (or Paychex or Ceridian), Tempworks can deliver a better service at a lower price AND include efficiencies from integrated recruitment to paperless applications and time cards.

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5 Trends to Help Your Organization Boost Job Satisfaction and Productivity

Treating your workforce as the organization’s top priority improves customer satisfaction and revenue growth and can boost job satisfaction and productivity. Read about five trends that are helping organizations around the country improve their people’s career well-being.

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What is Inbound Marketing for Staffing Companies?

Staffing Talk

Tomorrow I’m giving a private seminar to a group of Tempworks clients on inbound marketing. We’ll compare and contrast inbound marketing to outbound marketing and to traditional sales activity. We’ll address issues like the cost of leads obtained via outbound versus inbound marketing and how they can differ in quality. We’ll focus on the current economy and why it is critical to nurture leads regardless of time to buy.

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Email Merge Demo with Tempworks Enterprise

Staffing Talk

Demonstration of email merge showing use of sales letter templates and how embedded url's can be traced when recipients click on them.

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Insomnia Jeopardy from the New Yorker

Staffing Talk

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