Forum One
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
In the absence of social media compliance and regulatory standards, social networking technologies face increased scrutiny in both the government and commercial sectors. While many government leaders and corporate executives recognize the ability for social media to enable organizations to ?tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ? in communities across the country?
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
As a suburban Dad in his fifties, I get that young-again feeling whenever I have a chance to go downtown and stroll along Nicolet Avenue or check out the latest bohemian shops in Dinkytown near the University of Minnesota campus. One such time a few years back I went to an event at the university put on by the Genocide and Holocaust Studies department, a poetry-reading by a noted Armenian, Peter Balakian, author of Black Dog of Fate.
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Forum One
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
The Obama administration is close to unveiling a new Open Government Directive to push agencies to become more transparent, accountable, and collaborative. The directive builds upon the memorandum on transparency and open government released by the administration in January, and was announced by US CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0 Summit. Since the announcement, there has been a lot of discussion focused on the expected component of the directive that pushes federal agencies to make data ava
Forum One
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
Data.gov In brainstorming ideas to create Datamasher , the team spent a lot of time perusing data.gov and thinking about making government data more accessible by the average informed citizen. We actually spent quite a while trying to find data we thought we could understand well enough to present it to others in a compelling way, but it was difficult.
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Forum One
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
Last weekend, Forum One participated in CongressCamp at George Washington University. CongressCamp was an unconference focused on the Congress side of Gov 2.0. Participants explored the use of web-based social and collaboration technologies and their use in transforming congressional engagement with the public. The event attracted a breadth of experience, including congressional staffers, public policy specialists, advocacy practitioners, software vendors, and professional service providers.
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Forum One
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Our friends at the Department of Energy's Energy Information Agency have relaunched their Energy Kids site. A quick glance at the two linked sites above will highlight a stark difference in site strategy. The main EIA site is rich with energy information and data: petroleum prices, fuel consumption forecasts, electric generating capacity, and more. It is clearly focused at the experienced energy professional.
Forum One
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
By now, most of you have probably heard that our DataMasher application won Apps for America 2 via our press release or our celebratory tweets. The competing applications were impressive and the voting was close. Apparently, we won by only 12 votes! So to all of our fans who voted -- thank you very much for your support! And are hats are off to second and third place finishers govpulse.us and thisweknow.org.
Forum One
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
We're attending the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in Washington, DC today. The day will be capped by a demonstration of the top three finalists in the Apps for America 2 contest. This will be accompanied by a quick final call for votes prior to an announcement of the winner by Sunlight Labs. The first place winner takes home a $10,000 prize. Speaking of which, there is still time to vote for Forum One's DataMasher.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
I’m a big fan of lead generation guru Michael Damphousse at Smashmouth Marketing. His firm specializes in outbound lead generation, and I have no doubt based on the quality of his blog and twitter feed that he knows his stuff. Mike’s recent post on inside sales reveals a perspective that gets little play on the sales 2.0 circuit, and I’d like to share how that role has changed at Tempworks over the years.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Alleging fraudulent Career Builder advertisements and bait-and-switch tactics, the Minnesota Attorney General is suing a Twin Cities based employment agency, the Arthur Group. You can get the big media scoop on this from the Star Tribune or the New York Times. In reading through the hundreds of online complaints posted by job seekers, it’s hard not to sympathize, not to wish Attorney General Lori Swanson success in quickly getting some manner of justice for the victims.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
By representing the non-stop benefits of good web marketing with this image of money pouring out of a Tempworks Enterprise application, Harut Khachatryan, our resident Photoshop guru, captures the essence of enterprise lead generation for staffing agencies. Lead generation takes many forms from simple sales automation to lead nurturing and web analytics, but for the enterprise it involves integrating all those efforts into a system that everyone – marketing, sales, recruitment, support – can tak
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
It’s Saturday morning, and before I head out to the golf course I’m in testing a beta release of TempWorks, an internal version that is getting called 14r1. A lot of changes went into 14r1, especially infrastructure changes like a new interface layer between our business object and data access tiers. Such releases make it really important to have crackerjack software testers which I try to be.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
If you check out the Tempworks website , you’ll see that we have moved big-time into using twitter as a company-wide press platform with five or so of us posting news items, fun-facts and, ahem, assorted boasts. As CEO I’m working hard to keep those boasts to a minimum. I want a transparent Tempworks, not a barking, self-aggrandizing Tempworks.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Sarmad Abbas joined the TempWorks Team in March of 2008 and instantly fit in, with his friendly personality and easy-going manner. As a Support Center Specialist, Sarmad assists clients who are having trouble with the TempWorks system. He also makes minor enhancements to the client systems as needed. After graduating from the University of Minnesota Mankato with a degree in Computer Engineering, Sarmad went on to become a business analyst at Firstmark Services.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) held its healthcare staffing summit this last week. Jack Terrana of Tempworks and Jason Lander of StaffingRobot commented that the attendance was down but not dreadfully so and that the presentations were top notch as is usual for SIA shows. A look at the income statement from Cross Country sums up the struggle of health care staffing companies in light of the weakening economy: $200 million in loss on $730 million in revenue.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
[link] Bobbie Ruch was one of my oldest staffing clients. Going back to the early days of Tempworks, Bobbie advised me on issues of style – her business sense and expertise in marketing and design were top notch. She was also like me a francophile, and we shared stories about travelling les chemins moins connus. I will miss her.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
SEO heavyweights, Eric Ward and Debra Mastaler , got into it with each other over on Search Engine Land. Like chick-fights in high school this one was fun to watch. So much fun I stepped into it as well. Their fight was over something called “Directory Links”. You can buy directory links from all kinds of sources. Tempworks buys them directly or indirectly from the American Staffing Association, Staffing Industry Analysts, Yahoo, Google, and others.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
For those of you who like me can’t remember where you put stuff down, here’s a delicious read from this week’s Shouts and Murmur’s column in the New Yorker. I read it in bed late last night…laughed so hard i ticked off the wife who was trying to sleep.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
This is an excerpt from a whitepaper that Matt Charney and I are writing on the five biggest changes in staffing vendor management for the year 2009: VMS 2.0: The Continued Importance of Social Media Bad news. Twitter, Facebook, and the myriad other social networks that have sprung up over the past few years aren’t going away. The good news? VMS stands uniquely positioned to capitalize on this trend, and the best firms are already beginning to integrate Web 2.0 capabilities as part of their stan
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
This might not rival the story of the lady who sold her Picasso in a garage sale, but I’m too proud to not include it in my blog. My daughter Elizabeth, age 16, won first place in a Minnesota State Fair Art Contest. Cool enough. Not sure where she got the genes from – maybe it’s something recessive (check out - no BUY - some of my brother Doug’s prints here ).
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Guest blog post by Jack Terrana of Tempworks Picture: Jack Terrana with client Jason Ingram of Neueventure at a recent staffing show Here we are smack dab in the dog days of summer. Maybe your business is in its normal summer slowdown, for many it’s worse than usual thanks to the awful recession. A few signs indicate that the the staffing industry is due for a rebound and typically it is the harbinger of things to come.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Having just had a very bad experience at home with Comcast customer support, I’ve reflected on Tempworks customer support and taken time to appreciate Melanie Kramer, Director of Customer Support, whose name should be emblazoned on the top of our website management page. Melanie does amazing things. For example, in just a few minutes she put together a pictorial response to a VMS client with questions about searching and reporting on certifications which I am sharing below: VMS client question:
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
In designing Tempworks Analytics I had to make the plunge on which IP location service to use. In the end I bought the one that was easiest to buy, IP2Location. If you do a search on IP location , you’ll get quite a screen full of results – everything from non-commercial web lookups to databases to consulting services: I allotted myself a budget of $10k for the IP location aspect of my package, not a fortune but enough you’d think to get a little attention.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
One of the most important trade shows that Tempworks will be attending this Fall is Staffing World in Orlando, FL. For Tempworks it’s a great place to meet up with our customers and providers for whom we’ll be holding an appreciation dinner. Advance registration ends on October 2, so be sure to get your plans set and your reservations in!
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
I’ve written before about my good friend, Turkish historian Taner Akcam. Like Hrant Dink before them, Taner and many Turkish intellectuals live in fear for their lives and constant persecution by the Turkish government under their infamous Article 301. Taner is a hero by any measure. If you’ve followed the recent announcement of talks between Armenia and Turkey, then this interview with Taner might shed additional insight.
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Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
This week in our Ask Gregg column we take a question from a staffing company prioritizing marketing dollars. Dear Gregg Although I’m not a Tempworks customer, I follow your blog and have been implementing your lead generation ideas along with other resources I’ve found on my own. We have a lot of new business despite the down market, so thanks. Here’s my situation/question: I’m worried that our reputation will suffer if we don’t exhibit at the big annual job fair held each year.
Staffing Talk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Note: I post this press release on my blog to both brag about a customer doing great and to show off the work of our phenomenal public relations director, Laura Baratto: Despite recession, staffing industry leader The Reserves Network experiences dramatic increase in revenue while keeping workers working; strategic partnership with Tempworks credited with positioning company to increase revenues 200% over the next five years.
Forum One
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Tonight, President Obama will deliver a major address to Congress on U.S. health reform. So it's a good time to take a look at how people are using online tools and tactics to influence the reform discussion. Here, I survey a few of the more interesting online approaches I've encountered. I'm not pretending that this is a comprehensive list, and I definitely have more examples from those advocating for reform since that is the focus of my daily work.
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