Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some Federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

This is a repost of my Dad's story about how he built that company up a New York based technical services company and ended up leaving it for Manpower in 1966: Take This Job and Shove It The company was doing about $2.5 million in sales when I joined [in the early 1960s]. Mr. Signorelli was handicapped as a result of having suffered Polio as a child.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available ? and valuable ? for the public. Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. By now, most folks in the web development and Gov 2.0 communities (and readers of this blog) have heard about the federal government's Data.gov initiative (and the winner of a certain Apps for America compe

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

We have described previously on this blog how Forum One approaches social media in general , as well as our experience with SlideShare and Scribd. In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter. Twitter is impossible to ignore. It has been embraced by celebrities ( Britney Spears , Oprah ), adopted by journalists ( Anderson Cooper , Nicholas Kristof ) and appropriated by politicians ( Nancy Pelosi , Sarah Palin ).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Many of our clients at Forum One produce large numbers of PDF documents (reports, studies, policy briefs) which then are placed in a "documents" section on their web sites. The challenge these organizations face is then making these documents as widely accessed as possible. One way to increase attention to documents is to use Scribd, a third-party document sharing site (or in shorthand, "YouTube for documents").

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

It's election day in the Commonwealth of Virginia -- the state in which most Forum One staff call home. Today we'll elect a governor, a lieutenant governor, attorney general, and 100 house delegates. Thousands of people woke up this morning seeking answers to these three questions: How do I found out if I'm registered to vote? Where do I vote? What's on the ballot?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

We recently described how we use social media at Forum One. Today we'll talk about the category leader for posting and sharing PowerPoint presentations, SlideShare. Since we're a consulting firm, we (and many of our clients) produce a lot of PowerPoints. Some of them are not too bad. We've used SlideShare actively for the last three years posting our better efforts, as well as presentations from many of the events we host.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Many of our clients at Forum One produce large numbers of PDF documents (reports, studies, policy briefs) which then are placed in a "documents" section on their web sites. The challenge these organizations face is then making these documents as widely accessed as possible. One way to increase attention to documents is to use Scribd, a third-party document sharing site (or in shorthand, "YouTube for documents").

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A number of federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to online public engagement, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach such online opportunities. Tags: Influence Government Internet Strategy.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available — and valuable — for the public. Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

We have described previously on this blog how Forum One approaches social media in general , as well as our experience with SlideShare and Scribd. In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

First came "Web 2.0" in which we (the people) got the power to publish, share, comment, friend, follow, tag, and organize online. Then came "Gov 2.0" and the trumpets sounded for transparency of government data and innovation. Now, Hope Street Group (a Forum One client) has opened up the policy making process with a new collaboration platform: Policy 2.0.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

It's election day in the Commonwealth of Virginia -- the state in which most Forum One staff call home. Today we'll elect a governor, a lieutenant governor, attorney general, and 100 house delegates. Thousands of people woke up this morning seeking answers to these three questions: Tags: Influence Tools & Software.

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Speaker: Speakers

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

We recently described how we use social media at Forum One. Today we'll talk about the category leader for posting and sharing PowerPoint presentations, SlideShare. Tags: Influence Online Community.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I’ve been using Careeer Builder on and off over the last few years to search for candidates. My usual process is to enter my skill criteria “Microsoft SQL Programmer and Accounting”, and out it spits a list of candidates. Beaucoup candidates. Too many, and that’s been the problem. By entering limiting criteria like location or education, I can shorten the list but the result is largely unordered and still way too long.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Brandon Johnson, Product Manager of TempWorks DocCenter, gives a quick walk through of a job candidate filling out requisite paperwork online. Check out our recent press release for more information. Special thanks to Drew Bommett of TempWorks for conducting the interview.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Ok maybe not LonelyGirl15 viral, but for a slapped-together, boss-walking-around-the-office-with-camera doing blatant self-promotion video, hitting the 1k view mark is pretty cool. At first I just stuck it on my blog. Then our newsletter editor picked it up as a sound-bite for the month. Sales people started sending it to prospects. Then we put it on our website , and the hits started coming.

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Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Say what you want about social media and organic search results, pay-per-click is still the crowned prince of lead generation. I’m reposting this clip I did on search engine guru Clint Danks of Thinksem , a consultancy that handles our pay-per-click advertising with Google and others. He continues to do an incredible job maximizing our ROI by writing ads, making suggestions and monitoring our bids.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Popular finance blogger Paul Kedrosky posted this graph of unemployment rates across 50 metro areas but he doesn’t give a source for the data and a lot of it seems suspect. Sure Detroit is hurting and government-intense Washington DC is doing better than average, but he’s got three Ohio cities average to above average. Ohio above average? Besides Michigan, Ohio is the most hurtin’ place in America from what I see.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I’m not a big fan of IBM’s advertising, especially the annoyingly repetitiveads they tend to run during those really big games. But their series on green initiatives and how they tied the environmental notion of green to the bottom-line green, that I did like. Trying to do the same here.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

This last week a staffing client won a large contract because they got to know their customer really well and also because they presented a solution that reflected underlying economic realities. In fact, throughout the recession of 2009, our client deployments of VMS brought an increased emphasis on extended cost control as companies are placing increased scrutiny around the process of vendor selection, and trending certainly suggests an increase in business process outsourcing.

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The TempWorks Twitter client stands out from others by its tight integration with an enterprise crm database, but we’re still far short of the leaders when it comes to features. Here’s my take on our competition. Seesmic Although it’s far from my favorite, Seesmic comes in three flavors – desktop, iphone and web – a trend we’ll see many application vendors moving to as users will increasingly demand the best interface for the device they happen to be using.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Staffing Talk readers know I don’t have much use for Monster. If it’s not their 4171 page online application, then it’s their back panel for employers that wins the worst of web 1.0 award. If you’re in the employment business, then brand your own employment process not Monster’s I say. So I was shocked to see recently Monster making a strong play in social media.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

[link] The Robot, a healthcare staffing and technology blogger, writes “TempWorks - TempWorks makes great software for staffing agencies. It's not specific to healthcare so I can't say that I've used it or even seen that much of it. However, following their updates and blog - Staffing Talk - makes it clear that these guys are big innovators in the staffing industry.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

A few years back a Kelly SVP gave a lecture to a group of us at a staffing industry conference. “This industry needs to seriously examine itself,” I remember him saying. “Without a radical improvement in customer satisfaction rates, some of you will find yourselves without a profitable business model.” It appears he was right. Kelly reported a massive loss again for the traditionally strong third quarter.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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