Forum One
MARCH 31, 2009
I?ve just attended a teleconference sponsored by Network for Good called ?Fundraising When Money is Tight.? Mal Warwick has just written a book with this title, available at Amazon , on specific things you can do to minimize your costs and ensure that your organization is in a position to resume growth when the crisis passes (and it will!). Let me say that the teleconference was attended by 3,200 people!
Staffing Talk
MARCH 31, 2009
Is there still life to email marketing? It may seem like no given all the irrelevant emails we get all day, but if it’s done right with an integrated database that allows you to deliver targeted, relevant messages then the answer is an overwhelming yes. In this clip I demonstrate the traceable url features of Tempworks Enterprise which allow you to see who is accessing your website and which pages they find interesting.
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Forum One
MARCH 25, 2009
"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources. (See Thomas Friedman?
Forum One
MARCH 25, 2009
"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources. (See Thomas Friedman?
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Forum One
MARCH 23, 2009
This is the third in our series of "shovel-ready" internet projects -- Forum One's take on how to spend the the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)" popularly known as "the stimulus package.". Health insurance reform has been on my mind. While it's partially because I helped re-launch www.CoverTheUninsured.org , it's also because I recently participated in my employer's annual health benefits briefing.
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Forum One
MARCH 8, 2009
This is the first of a series of blog posts we?re doing to identify ?shovel-ready? web projects we think the federal government should fund. These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake.
Forum One
MARCH 6, 2009
Roundtable meetings are becoming a way of life in Seattle these days. Two weeks ago Forum One's Seattle office convened a group of Global Health web communicators and talked in depth about using social media to build connections and awareness. Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices.
Forum One
MARCH 6, 2009
The Obama Administration announced yesterday what had been widely expected, that Vivek Kundra, former Chief Technology Officer of the Washington DC government, would be taking on the role of Federal Chief Information Officer. It's a pretty exciting development! It feels like a perfect storm in DC these days for innovation in the how government uses information technology - with Kundra's appointment, the Administration's leadership in transparency and participation online through the campaign and
Forum One
MARCH 5, 2009
Over the weekend I also had the fantastic opportunity to attend Transparency Camp '09. Having worked in the government sector in the past and been frustrated with my own inability to forge change across the vast bureaucracy, I was re-inspired that change IS coming, thanks to 300 passionate government, non-profit, and private sector folks. The barcamp format of the event worked nicely with the topic, and the fact that most participants were live Twittering the different sessions made it easy for
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Forum One
MARCH 4, 2009
I attended a session called "a Day in the Life of a Federal Web Manager" at the Transparency Camp in DC this weekend, and we had a very interesting discussion about the tension that large organizations face with respect to letting different departments and groups at their organization experiment with web 2.0 tools. Federal government web managers and IT staff (and their peers at large nonprofits and foundations) face a constant and growing barrage of requests from departments, initiatives, progr
Forum One
MARCH 2, 2009
No - really. In these troubled times, you can still find a really cool job with a great organization and do good in the world in the process. Rare , an innovative global conservation organization based in Arlington, VA , is hiring! Rare has recently launched RarePlanet.org , and online community for conservation practitioners, particularly those participating in Rare's Pride program.
Forum One
MARCH 1, 2009
I had a great time yesterday at Transparency Camp '09 in DC - kudos to Peter Corbett , and Gabriela Schneider and Clay Johnson and others at Sunlight Foundation , as well as others for catalyzing it. There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC. There really are a lot of amazing people working on web technology, strategy and policy in the DC area.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 29, 2009
Marketing at software companies has traditionally has ended up in the lap of the “marketing guy” or “marketing chick” who more often than not was the only one in the organization not a certifiably introspective algorithm-hugger. Today however software products have evolved into complex systems with vast arrays of functions and support processes, and marketing no longer survives as the purview of a single person or group of people that lob messages over the heads of employees out to customers and
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 27, 2009
Poor Google has more to worry about than its reputation recently tarnished by layoffs. The advertising giant just can’t seem to get its act together with its signature adwords program and meanwhile a deft competitor is getting set to eat its lunch. The layoffs in and of themselves are not alarming in light of the recession and tightened online advertising budgets, but for a company that used viral video clips to extol its employee-friendly policies like free haute cuisine, even a hint of layoff
Staffing Talk
MARCH 25, 2009
Cory Hintz has served up several posts on Tempworks. This one details Tempworks long relationship with a franchised Manpower labor operation in Florida. This one talks about the Staffing Industry Forum we attended in Florida last week (yes, some people are still going to conferences!). This one details new Tempworks software features for customer discounts (discounts are a great sales tactic these days).
Staffing Talk
MARCH 24, 2009
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a world class marketer, and his company offers a great sales automation product. But sometimes even the most clever overplay a strong hand as he has done in projecting his company’s Force.Com as a leader in cloud-computing based on-demand application development. Here is Salesforce’s marketing spin on its service: “The Force.com platform provides the tools to enable a new era of on-demand applications that bring the power and success of Salesforce to your whole com
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 19, 2009
Here’s the link to the Time Clock page on our website: [link] and here is a link to the announcement: [link] It is with great pleasure that Tempworks announces an upcoming release of its time clock system that incorporate the following changes: Bug Fixes 1)New clockID metrics for partnership, use more unique information to avoid duplicate hardware IDs in certain systems, no longer use MAC addresses.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 19, 2009
Staffing entrepreneurs are a pretty resourceful bunch. They combine a lot of great characteristics – industry knowledge, passion, negotiation skills – to make themselves stand out and succeed. In this clip I identify a problem that comes from having all those great skills together, that of tending to over-analyze each aspect of their business and picking seeming best-of-breed approaches for everything from worker comp to funding to payroll and marketing.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 17, 2009
Temporary Staffing Vendor Management Systems (VMS) have promised everything from lower costs to better recruiting and efficiencies for everyone involved. However, as the bankruptcy of the Chimes VMS entity demonstrated, the results have fallen far short of those promises. But we don’t need to look at the high-profile failures to understand the inherent flaws of traditional VMS.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 15, 2009
[i wrote this story a year or so ago; i’m updating it now for a new series of posts on negotiation as it relates to staffing and software] Assumptions can cost you dearly. One I made once almost cost me my life. This story takes place in the Amish country in southern Minnesota near Canton in 1987. I would travel down there periodically from Rochester where my wife was going to Mayo Medical School to buy walnut and cherry wood.
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 12, 2009
In the last segment I talked about the candidate poaching that compounds the problem of expensive job board posting fees. In response, the StaffingRobot postulated that avoiding Monster was tantamount to not participating in the marketplace. Au contraire… In this clip I show how you can become the marketplace, the direct provider of job and candidate information to your immediate markets and beat the major job boards at their own game.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 10, 2009
It’s March, and a snow storm is about to besiege Minnesota which has me dreaming of California and the idea that I could actually be outside playing tennis and engaging in my most favorite doubles-tennis ploy, poaching. Few things are more satisfying or demoralizing in tennis than poaching an opponent’s great forehand with a smash aimed at their jewels.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 6, 2009
A client asked me to day if Tempworks was keeping up with Salesforce, and I shared that Salesforce indeed emerged as a best-of-breed sales automation platform a few years back but that nowadays they are pushing harder cloud computing and their platform for allowing external applications like state-of-the-art email marketing services or ERP to integrate with them.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 6, 2009
For search engine optimization experts in the staffing industry (aka ‘Staffing SEOs’), eliminating traditional advertising costs like Monster is job #1. So we watch with great interest the latest search engine trends as discussed by the big names in optimization like Search Engine Land , Matt Cutts , ThinkSEM and Aaron Wall and the brouhaha over an impending change to Google search results alternatively known as the ‘Brand’ or ‘Vince’ update.
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Staffing Talk
MARCH 4, 2009
Ironically, the cartoon below is from the New Yorker , a print magazine whose existence is threatened (disclosure: I’ll personally stay a loyal print subscriber until the very end and may just buy a Kindle to keep reading it if the print version goes away). I could have titled this post “What the National Staffing Company Said to the Agile Start-up”.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 3, 2009
Demonstration of email merge showing use of sales letter templates and how embedded url's can be traced when recipients click on them.
Staffing Talk
MARCH 3, 2009
If you’ve ever thought your staffing company doesn’t get its share of search listings on Google, then you should really pity a place call “Eu” in France which is situated between Le Havre and Calais along the English channel – smack dab in the middle of calamity territory like the allied invasion, la bataille d’Azincourt and if not mistaken a major WWI death zone, Amiens.
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