Nov 10, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: In the midst of announcing the launch of my new business on Friday I heard (via Twitter of course) that John Sumser had included me in his Top 100 Influencers in HR / Recruiting. For those in the UK not familiar with the great work that John does, I would recommend checking out his [...]. (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: After dropping subtle and not so subtle hints on Twitter for the last week I’m absolutely delighted to announce the launch of MetaShift, my new consulting business. I’ll be continuing to work for Penna on a consultancy basis but as of next Monday will be taking on my own addition clients and projects. In [...]. (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: This article was originally published on Changeboard.comThe recent ban by Portsmouth City Council on their employees accessing social media sites such as Facebook while at work, has provoked much debate in other companies and organisations.I suspect that a large number of HR departments up and down the country are looking a (Read More)

Oct 11, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: This year has certainly been a memorable one and not often for the right reasons. However, despite times being so tough for our industry, it’s great to see that over the last few months so many people have come together via Twitter to network and collaborate on creating a more positive and innovative future. The [...]. (Read More)

Oct 05, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: more about "Some great research from The Guardian…", posted with vodpod . (Read More)

Sep 23, 2009

Google Blog Search: recruiting web 2.0 Just a quick blog post to let you know that I’ve launched an additional Twitter feed.SRlinks is an automated stream of links that I have either shared on Google Reader, bookmarked on Delicious or posted to my link blog Social Recruiting. Unsurprisingly most of the links will be about social recruiting and other related recr (Read More)

Aug 20, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: I’ve just noticed that I haven’t posted a blog post yet in August. This is mainly because I’ve been on holiday but also partly because I’ve been experimenting with some different types of social media.During my blog break I’ve mostly been using Posterous as a “work stream” and it’s already proving to be as [...] (Read More)

Jul 31, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: I posted the first version of this presentation last November. Great to see that it has been updated and I really like the just f**king do it message. There is a lot of talk and not a lot of action in the Social Recruiting space at the moment, I hope that we’ll see this change [...]. (Read More)

Jul 28, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: Ever since I became aware of Posterous I’ve been wondering if there was any way its rather clever functionality could be relevant to me. For those of you who might not have heard of it, it’s a very simply blog site which allows you to post several different types of content quickly and easily via [...]. (Read More)

Jul 27, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: A belated thank you  to everyone who came to the Summer Recruitment Tweetup a couple of weeks ago. Particular thanks must go to my co-organiser Jamie Leonard (now working at The Ladders) and our generous sponsors TwitterJobSearch and 1Job.co.ukWe’ll be looking to do another one in October or  November  so if anyone has any (Read More)

Jul 21, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: Well deserved congratulations to Mike Taylor for organising such a well attended and well received conference last week.  It was great to have such an event in the UK and really interesting to see the momentum building behind Social Recruiting, something which will be  force for  seismic change in our industryDuring my pres (Read More)

Jul 14, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: I was disturbed last week when one person referred to me as a social media expert and then on the same day someone else seemed to imply that I thought I was. Neither person was right but then again perception is everything! This got me thinking a bit about the nature of expertise…… Five habits of a [...]. (Read More)

Jul 12, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: In preparation for Thursday’s Social Media In Recruitment conference I’ve created a “Social Recruiting” search page on Addictomatic. The link is below and the page pulls in all manner of different sources. What a great site!Social Recruiting Buzz on Addictomatic (Read More)

Jun 15, 2009

Submitted by Mspecht from blog: I arrived this afternoon in Palo Alto to attend the Social Recruiting Summit, catch up with several people here in San Francisco and have a few meetings. While it is a damn long way to come for effectively 1 day event I am hoping it is worth the effort. We kick off tonight with a Tweet Up, [...]. (Read More)

May 29, 2009

Submitted by Mattalder from blog: The interview I did on Social Media and Employer Branding with Nick Price Research has just made it onto YouTube. It also includes a little bit more context for the ACE presentation in my previous post . (Read More)

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