Archive for the ‘Community’ Category

What is the key to job hunting success? Hint: It’s NOT social media.

I have spent the last five months learning my way through the Human Resources Human Capital Management (HR HCM) SaaS software space. The HR space is not a completely foreign market to me because I have been a valuable member of the workforce since I was 15 years old, I have searched for and secured [...]

Knock, knock. Who’s there?

There are two aspects of human nature that are always fascinating to me. The first is that people, generally speaking, rarely take immediate action when they have a positive customer experience. The second is that people, again generally speaking, rarely like to say bad things to someone’s face. Combine those two aspects of human nature [...]

They want to hire you AND your best friend.

A recent Tweet string with @wileyccoyote inspired this post. It went something like this…

I am not currently in the job market looking for a position, but I was as recently as January 2010. I also have many (more than I can count on one hand) friends and family members in the job market. And, many [...]

2010 – the ‘tion year for community & social media

While working on a community strategy presentation last week, I created a slide titled, “2010 — the ‘tion year.”  You know — as in…organizaTION, integraTION and proliferaTION. It was my attempt to tie together and simplify the disparate activities that are going to clutter social media and community strategies in 2010.
2010 is a pivotal  year [...]

Community does NOT need a Kitchen Sink

Let’s face it.
If you are an enterprise with a traditional website, your community is probably now the most trafficked section – especially if you are doing any support or product idea sharing. It is going to be very tempting to add a bunch of “stuff” to your community just to get it some exposure by [...]