My journey from the Library and Information Science world to that of the names sourcing / recruiting world has been exciting. Bringing the two worlds … Read more
#SourceCon Live: Glen Cathey
“Boolean search doesn’t do what we do justice. It doesn’t describe everything that we are capable of.” Glen Cathey kicked things off at SourceCon letting … Read more
Look Beyond The Obvious
As researchers and sourcers, we are tasked with generating leads for our recruiting colleagues or our clients. But, as the slogan goes for my favorite … Read more
Another Search Partnership Renews Its Vows
The last couple of weeks have been fill with news of new and renewed strategic search partnerships. First, the Yahoo!/Bing search alliance. Then the … Read more
Conducting a Quality Search: Let Keywords Be Your Guide
That title is kind of a ‘duh’, isn’t it? But it’s amazing how often developing a good list of keywords, and then putting them to … Read more
The Yahoo! / Microsoft Search Alliance
Yesterday, Yahoo! Sr. VP Search Products, Shashi Seth, posted a note on Yahoo!’s search blog about the Yahoo!-Microsoft search alliance that’s … Read more
Data, Information, and Knowledge
Data: a collection of facts Information: data that have been processed into a format that is understandable by its intended audience Knowledge: … Read more
Google “Wave”s Goodbye
At 2pm Pacific time today, Google posted on its official blog that it would discontinue developing Wave as a stand-alone product. It states however that it … Read more
How #SocialRecruiting Is Changing Sourcing
Yesterday I received a notification from Jobvite that the results to their 2010 Social Recruiting Survey were available. This is a topic of great interest … Read more
TED Talks Archive – Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
This video is from the 2009 TED Conference talks. For those who don’t know, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He’s a pretty … Read more