Forum One
APRIL 24, 2009
I recently was able to spend an amazing evening enjoying one of my new fave artists, Habib Koité and his band Bamada , based in Mali. You likely do not read this blog for its concert reviews (and if you do, you have likely been pretty frustrated to date), so, other than to say it was a fantastic show, I want to focus on two web management principles that struck me while taking in the African grooves.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 2, 2009
One of the contradictions in life that I haven’t quite reconciled myself to is that the whacko left publications like the New Yorker and New York Times offer the best business reporting and comic relief anywhere. I hope you enjoy the comic below from a recent issue. If you’re a business news junkie like me and happen to pick up an issue of the New Yorker, be sure to read the ‘Business Page’ that comes right after their editorial section.
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Forum One
APRIL 29, 2009
I literally just rolled off the red-eye back from the 2009 Non Profit Technology Conference (NTC '09), and although I'm exhausted - both physically and mentally - I'm hopeful and excited about everything I heard and saw. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference. On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques.
Forum One
APRIL 29, 2009
I literally just rolled off the red-eye back from the 2009 Non Profit Technology Conference (NTC '09), and although I'm exhausted - both physically and mentally - I'm hopeful and excited about everything I heard and saw. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference. On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques.
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Forum One
APRIL 29, 2009
My head is spinning from a rapid infusion of knowledge gleaned from three days at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco. (My head is also spinning a bit from my arrival this morning on a redeye). Several of us from Forum One spoke at the conference, and we'll share more about our sessions over the next few days. Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.".
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Forum One
APRIL 22, 2009
The World Bank and the BBC are running a live debate online and offline tomorrow, April 23 on the global economic recession. (FYI - The online component of the debate is using Forum One's very cool Live Interviews Online service.). I like how the Bank is combining the Live Interviews Online with the face-to-face event and also YouTube video questions.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 30, 2009
Nothing gives me more joy or hope than when I find someone who acts out of principle as opposed to self-interest. This is true of my good friend, Turkish historian Taner Akcam, whose books you can buy here. Same goes for these brave souls who risk their lives on a daily basis by speaking out under Turkey’s oppressive (it’s illegal to speak of the Armenian genocide in Turkey) and racist deep state.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 29, 2009
What is it that Hubspot has against trade show marketing? I just love exhibiting at trade shows. No other opportunity allows me to exercise my gastrocnemius and soleus quite like standing in a booth all day. No pain, no gain I say. And then there is that once a quarter opportunity to pay union workers to set up the booth and tear it down. A great opportunity to support the job economy!
Staffing Talk
APRIL 29, 2009
One thing clear from my jobs tour out East last week is that business owners don’t trust the Obama situation. They see handouts and higher taxes but no visibility of a long-term healthy economy. The result has been massive avoidance of new projects and spending slowdown on employment all around. You can see the real-time progression on Slate here.
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Staffing Talk
APRIL 27, 2009
So after bragging to the wife about New York restaurants, I got the mandate to find something great here in Twin Cities to take her to, and that made Meritage an obvious choice. I had the prix fixe menu (canard on a bed of couscous) and she had the foie gras stuffed lapin. Excellent. Meritage has their marketing and pricing figured out. “Recession inspired wine pricing.” $5/glass.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 26, 2009
Geisha Restaurant, New York City While in New York we had the pleasure of meeting up with Brett Pogany of Stifel at Geisha’s Japanese restaurant off of Central Park. While not expensive by New York standards, Geisha reminded me of the nicer restaurants I enjoyed while working in Japan in the 1990s. It also reminded me of how gastronomically poor we are back here in Minnesota.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 25, 2009
Cost reduction was a major topic of conversation at every stop on my client and prospect trip this last week, and so I get outright evangelistic about getting 100% rid of EVERY scrap of paper including paper checks. It only makes sense that getting rid of the paper means less handling, less postage, and less cost, but I didn’t realize how much until I got back home and read this post by Kevin Prow , Operations Manager at Tempworks.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 25, 2009
Tempworks just wrapped up its best first quarter in several years in no small part because of our paperless initiatives, and who better to exemplify that than Michael Page International who will soon be on our 100% paperless processes throughout the United States and Canada. Tempworks marketing directory, Laura Baratto, in collaboration with Michael Page put out a special Earth Day press release to highlight the achievement.
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Staffing Talk
APRIL 21, 2009
When Tocqueville passed through this part of Indiana some 200 years ago he had a lot to say about slavery and the economy with equal measures of disgust and delight. His mood would be similar today. "Unemployment here is 15%," says the concierge at our hotel. "Obama came through three weeks ago, didn't you read about it." No, sorry, Mr-Spend-More-Than-Bush does not interest me I want to say.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 19, 2009
My client AM-PM staffing in Louisiana puts out a great newsletter and has moved to a largely paperless, web-based time and attendance system. Last year I wrote about their original building out behind the one pictured here in what I can only imagine is a rare snow storm down there. The old building was constructed in the 1890s and I’m guessing it is one of the oldest still-standing staffing offices in the country.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 19, 2009
This week I’m heading out on a customer visit and prospect sales trip to New York by car. Roughed out schedule is Wisconsin on Monday, Ohio on Wednesday and New York on Friday. I will try to meet up with anyone along the way – competitor, customers, prospect, coder - that wants to talk staffing and especially my favorite topics: paperless staffing, inbound marketing and lead generation, job boards, content management systems, golf, AJAX and.Net 4.0.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 14, 2009
After we went up on our new website a month or so back I got a lot of compliments overall but also complaints about the navigation menus which didn’t work well under certain browsers and looked so 1997 on all browsers. So I started looking around at major websites and found that their menus weren’t much better. Take IBM’s pictured below. The only thing nice I can say about IBM’s website menus is that they suck less than their annoyingly repetitive and unimaginative commercials during the Master’
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Staffing Talk
APRIL 14, 2009
I purloined this from the Tempworks April newsletter that Laura Baratto is preparing. I don’t do enough on this blog to extol the support team which I constantly hear from my clients does a phenomenal job. Thanks Laura, and thanks Kyle: Every TempWorks employee plays an important role to ensure our company runs smoothly, and Kyle Borgschatz is no exception.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 9, 2009
Matt is the designer at Wooly Mammoth Design who redid the design of our Tempworks website and this blog. The project involved both the design and implemention using the Umbraco content management system. I’m getting compliments from many people about his work and couldn’t be happier with the impact the new site has had on business development. Congratulations on an excellent project Matt and thank you!
Staffing Talk
APRIL 8, 2009
Debra of The Link Spiel is a great writer and the SEO expert whose style I most try to emulate. In this essay she wrote for Search Engine Land, she makes the case for outlinking which is a topic I recently wrote about in reference to Cory Hintz’s success with his blog.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 5, 2009
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Staffing Talk
APRIL 4, 2009
Most blogs out there never get out of the starting gate no less page rank two, so I was amazed to see Tempworks’ very own Cory Hintz have his blog hit a page rank of three during its first year. Page rank is a measure of a web page’s popularity. One reason his blog rose so fast is because of Cory’s tenacious networking. He’s not just tooting the Tempworks horn as he does in this post about customer accolades or this one about wins over ADP.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 4, 2009
This is a follow up post to my recent admonition about being careful in hiring link-building services. No sooner had I wrote that post that I noticed a competitor perhaps unwittingly engaging in “black-hat” link-building. “Black-hat” refers to sneaky activities meant to fool the search engines and can include anything from hyperlink-filled spam comments on blogs to hidden text on a web page.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 2, 2009
I’m a big fan of Ken Molay and have written about his webinar consulting blog before [link]. This April 21 he will host a free online seminar on giving better webinars, and I recommend it for anyone looking to make their online presentations better.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 25, 2009
Cory Hintz has a nice write up about our client BD Employment and their smooth implementation of Enterprise staffing software in the hands of Todd Glander.
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Staffing Talk
APRIL 19, 2009
Cory Hintz has the scoop on two Tempworks superstars, Jathan Moline and Laura Atneosen , celebrated their anniversaries this last week.
Staffing Talk
APRIL 30, 2009
B. Smaller’s “I’m looking for something that says I have a headache.”.
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