Forum One
AUGUST 24, 2009
Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. In celebration of the release of Data.gov, the Sunlight Foundation sponsored this coding showdown that asked entrants to make a useful web or iPhone application using at least one data feed from the new Data.gov site.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 28, 2009
Some including my dear brother Doug in Sacramento are wondering why I haven’t released the source code yet to the advertised open-source career website I’ve been developing. Doug further wonders why it isn’t in SourceForge, a popular source code site for LAMP developers. Truth is I haven’t had anything worth releasing before now and secondly I have never used SourceForge and find it easier just to provide my stuff via a zip download.
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Forum One
AUGUST 17, 2009
Forum One recently supported a groundbreaking, education summit in New Mexico: "Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning", convened by the Stupski Foundation , West Wind Education Policy , and the Knowledge Alliance. My colleague Colleen and I spent weeks working closely with the three convening organizations, helping them identify key ways to share their messages and summit activities in a virtual space.
Forum One
AUGUST 11, 2009
We have seen in recent years a growing prevalence of online contests. Here are three recent contest efforts that have impressed us. First, the Netflix Prize is an outstanding, $1 million effort to improve Netflix' algorithm at recommending movies. Top tier researchers participated, eventually combining into a number of global teams. The final winner will soon be announced in a nail-biter end to the contest.
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 25, 2009
Cory hits offers a write-up on customer Ruthi Postow , a sneak peak at time card imaging in Enterprise, info on recent anniversaries , and a road trip roundup. Kevin Prow asks why you should outsource your payroll and offers trends in medical staffing. Casey Kraus leads the TW cheer here. Paul Czywczynski explores why debugging text messaging software requires three sessions of Visual Studio which sounds more fun than…what… eating glass?
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 21, 2009
It took my wife being gone for 10 days this summer for me to realize that my youngest kids aren’t babies anymore. Nope they found the Ramen and frozen pizza all by themselves, and other than fights over MY Kindle , golf outings, bike rides to Buffalo Wings and the occasional need to wipe a counter or two, I had fleeting symptoms of empty nest syndrome.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 18, 2009
It’s tough keeping up with the high-octane developers at Tempworks. For years we’ve had a direct hire fee schedule that automatically made sure that the back office processed placement fees, but I had no idea that Jathan Moline made it accommodate the increasingly complex schedule of those fees. You can blame it on the economy or simply the desire to please the client, but placement fees aren’t 100% up-front, no-guarantee deals these days.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 18, 2009
One cool thing of having a great platform partner like Microsoft is that we see our products enhanced because they are busy making their products better. The Bing mapping service, Virtual Earth, is one such animal. We integrated into Tempworks sometime back but it just gets better and better.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 8, 2009
Since launching Tempworks Freemium in May, I’ve been forcing my way through Chris Anderson’s philosophic Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available free on the Kindle ) which Malcolm Gladwell ripped apart in this also-free New Yorker article a few weeks back. I find both authors a bit ethereal for my interest at least as to how ‘free’ applies to enterprise software.
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 5, 2009
Our Canadian competitor, StaffingEdge , gets blogging right. Transparent and informative, they put up this recent post about managing worker comp costs in the tight economy. Temporary workers fear losing their assignments more than ever. No way is a worker going to quickly object: “Uh, I was sent here to work an assembly line not to unpack 100 pound crates.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 2, 2009
Will Smith talks about the little man inside your head when you run that says you can’t do it, and that you have to train yourself not to listen to the man. This summer I’ve been trying to break a seven minute mile, but the little man got to me every time.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 2, 2009
I missed this gem from the diary of Steve Jobs last month. What the fuck is going on inside Google? How much more out of control and undisciplined can this place get? How many new goddamn operating systems are they going to create? They've already got Android, and nobody wants it. Now they're going to make yet another operating system, this time out of a browser that nobody wants.
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 1, 2009
The new breed of PR firms don’t do press releases. They do video clips like this one from Indigo that garner you hundreds of thousands of free hits. Maybe you missed the original wedding dance clip that this is a spoof of.
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Staffing Talk
AUGUST 7, 2009
[link] TempWorks put out its first press release on Freemium which those of you who follow me here at StaffingTalk already know all about. More than 200 companies in seven countries have embraced Freemium, the free staffing, recruitment and CRM platform by Minnesota-based software house, TempWorks. Freemium allows organizations to start free and take advantage of the same award-winning platform used by Manpower, Contemporary Nursing and Chase Staffing to automate sales and organize HR, job order
Staffing Talk
AUGUST 25, 2009
World map of hits to Tempworks website In the early 1990s I travelled to Air India and Indian Airlines hawking my mainframe packages. Instead of me selling to them, everyone was trying to sell to me including a really bright programmer who offered his services for a grand total of $1/hr. Fast-forward 16 years and a quick look at my marketing data shows that not only has India entered the online world but its activity dwarfs that of West Europe and Australia combined.
Forum One
AUGUST 26, 2009
I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! The other two finalists are very interesting sites, but here are my thoughts on why Datamasher is very cool and deserving of your vote! by September 7th. So, in brief, what is Datamasher ? Datamasher is a web site where anyone can "mash-up" two sets of Federal data about US States to create a custom indicator, which can then be viewed by all on a State-by-State
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