Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Read an interesting article where the CEO of Facebook discusses their take on the future of the social web ( a direct competitor to Google's OpenSocial platform). OpenSocial has had some challenges out of the gate including it's first application being quickly hacked in just 45 minutes.
Mark Zuckerberg discussed the evolution of the social ...
Posted in Open Social, social media | No Comments »
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Joseph Smarr from Plaxo does a great job describing out how it all works in one presentation:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYnlH5FXz0&eurl=http://sites.google.com/site/io/opensocial-openid-and-oauth-oh-my]
You can view the slides used in the presentation here.
The future of the web is social, there will be no differentiation between the web and the social web. Facebook is working on a social web ...
Posted in Open Social, Uncategorized, social media | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I have been thinking of pursuing an Executive MBA ever since I took my position as a Seattle Human Resources Manager at Visible Technologies. Last night, I attended the University of Washington's Executive MBA program's summer BBQ and informational session. A couple of things were abundantly obvious to me quickly:
1. ...
Posted in Human Resource Practices | 1 Comment »
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Why is the prevailing belief with employees and managers that performance reviews = compensation?
A typical response I get is: "The rest of the 1000's of companies in the world do it. We are the only company not doing it. Whenever I sit down with my employees they immediately ask when ...
Posted in Human Resource Practices, Performance Reviews | 1 Comment »
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
A friend of mine who is connected within the Seattle Startup community, sent me this post by Marcelo Calbucci on the Seattle 2.0 blog discussing the frustrations and shortcomings that Startup Managers have of recruiting agencies in general.
I felt compelled to respond, having gone through a similar process, while recruiting ...
Posted in Startups, recruiting, social media | No Comments »
