Hiding in Plain Site Finding Talent in the Blogosphere

Presented by Carmen Hudson Engagement Manager, Sourcing and Social Media Recruiting Toolbox

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•  About Carmen •  Today’s discussion – Focus on sourcing – finding candidates on

existing blogs – Creating and writing blogs – not so much – Resources page for all links

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"A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.”

--Wikipedia 

156 million blogs since 1997

Bloggers are typically mid-career

Why bloggers blog

•  Resumes •  Comments •  Followers •  Blogrolls •  Content/links •  Social networks •  Is it part of a blog network?

Mining blogs

•  Blogging Platforms •  Blogging Search Engines •  Boolean Magic •  Social Bookmarking •  Social Networks •  Q&A Sites

Finding blogs

Blogging platforms

Blog search engines

Social Bookmarking

•  site:wordpress.com (lamp | agile | php) "developer" seattle -how -write -job –apply

•  site:blogspot.com "social media" "marketing coordinator" location -how -write -apply

Boolean magic

Q&A, Social Collaboration

Social networks

•  RSS •  Read Later •  Spreadsheet/CRM •  Social Bookmarks •  Data extraction tools •  First contact letters

Productivity and organization

•  AboutCarmen •  Recruiting Toolbox •  Tweetajob •  Blogpulse •  Sysomos (social media demographics) •  11 Characteristics of Successful Blog(gers) •  Wordpress •  Blogger •  Posterous •  Tumblr •  LiveJournal •  Alltop •  Technorati •  15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking

Websites •  Quora •  StackOverflow •  Github

Resources

•  Netvibes •  Delicious •  Tweetmeme •  Reddit •  Friendfeed •  Instapaper •  Broadlook •  eGrabber •  Contact Capture (free)

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