Forum One
OCTOBER 24, 2008
I love maps - love reading them, analyzing them, staring at them - anything. I can spend tons of time doing this. When Google Earth came out I played with it for hours - [ahem] not on company time, of course - and when Google Maps interfaces started coming out, I wanted one. Alas, I had not the technical skill to create a mash-up with the Google Maps API.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 30, 2008
Call-Em-All President, Brad Herrman, caught up with me at the show to talk about his service that calls workers, soccer Moms, voters and church members. It's got an easy 1-2-3 setup and an attractive transactional price.
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Forum One
OCTOBER 31, 2008
Shirley Sagawa and Deb Jospin spoke Thursday about their new book, "The Charismatic Organization: Eight Ways to Grow a Nonprofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors, and Energizes Employees" ( web site ). We co-hosted the morning meeting along with The Aspen Institute at their wonderful office, with an audience of about 40 people. Quick interview with Shirley and Deb: The official description of the book: The authors offer a framework that allows organizations to go beyond quick fixes and fundrais
Forum One
OCTOBER 28, 2008
I'm really looking forward to moderating our Web Executive Seminar tomorrow morning October 29 at the National Press Club in Washington. It's called Online Video for Policy Impact. A smart group from diverse organizations is coming. We'll see folks from World Resources Institute, Heritage Foundation, ENOUGH Project, The World Bank, Kaiser Family Foundation, eweek.org, the U.N.
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Forum One
OCTOBER 24, 2008
Scott Berkun at The Berkun Blog recently posted the results of an informal study he did on why designers fail. While he doesn't say it anywhere that I could find, he seems to mean "designers" in the narrow sense of "graphic designers." I think the conclusions probably map reasonably well to any sort of designer, i.e., technical architects, information architects, etc.
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Forum One
OCTOBER 13, 2008
Our Web Executive Seminar last month featured a terrific case study by District of Columbia CTO Vivek Kundra on the DC Data Catalog -- an archive of over 200 data feeds. Under Kundra's leadership, the District is using simple technologies to become, arguably, one of the most transparent metropolitan governments in the nation. We've blogged about Kundra's presentation previously, but now his slides are available for the first time (with audio).
Forum One
OCTOBER 7, 2008
Our friends at KaBOOM! have launched a new version of their " Playspace Finder " service -- a very cool map-based database to catalogue playspaces for kids. The KaBOOM! Playspace Finder, currently in beta, allows you to enter, search, and rate playspaces in your community. It is a free, searchable directory that helps parents, community members and kids locate playgrounds, skate parks, sports fields, and even ice rinks across America.
Forum One
OCTOBER 7, 2008
These days everyone is blogging, from high school kids and mommies, to large corporations and industry leaders. Nonprofit organizations are no exception, and delivering news and stories through a blogging platform is an interactive and efficient way of connecting with your audience. In corporation with NTEN, Forum One's Michaela Hackner will be hosting a webinar on October 9, from that will help organizations get started with their blogging pursuits.
Forum One
OCTOBER 5, 2008
In this case, paying for votes is not against the law -- simply click on your favorite charity from a long list of organizations, and the campaign sponsor donates $2 to your choice. This type of campaign has been experimented with for many years, and it is interesting to see the model still alive and in this case being promoted by Seth Godin, the popular blogger, author and thought leader in the realm of opt-in or " permission marketing.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 31, 2008
[link] “Link has a very comprehensive training program and I knew that I would be able to learn about how the staffing industry works. I was looking for an industry to get into and in the end it came down to where I thought I could make the most money," says Ron Ulla, a startup franchisee of our client Link Staffing. Unlike many industrial staffing companies, Link is experiencing unprecedented growth.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 29, 2008
After its public relations disaster with Vista , Microsoft is running not jogging to a new name, Windows 7, which is Vista with some patches and a new coat of paint. Windows Azure, Microsoft's new push for computing "in the cloud" allows you to use the next generation of desktop tools from anywhere on the internet. For example, a sales person could edit a proposal while a client is reading it and while the COO is approving it from her mobile phone.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 29, 2008
If you've spent half your life as I have vainly trying to perfect your French accent, it just doesn't seem fair that the good Lord lets a child figure it out in no time. How I would love to just utter one syllable with the crispness of the woman and child in this clip: Too much candy from Capucha on Vimeo.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 29, 2008
A home-care agency came to the booth and asked me about whether our scheduler handled multiple care visits in a single day, and all I said was "No" which was true - we don't do home-care - but really dumb just the same. I should have said "No, but I know someone who does" and taken her over to Clearview's booth. Isn't that what service is about, helping someone whether it helps you make money or not?
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 30, 2008
Tempworks highlights its participation at the staffing shows by throwing a party for clients, prospects, the press and actually damn near anybody including competitors. In this picture, I share some laughs with our client Dan Ponce of the Industrial Labor Management Group. Next up: the Executive Forum in Miami Beach, March 5-7, 2009. If asked, I will do my amazing beer-chug-while-standing-on-head trick.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Ray Ozzie: Reflections on Azure Microsoft has been a great partner for Tempworks and is always helping us take our staffing software and service to the next level. This week we are at the PDC (Microsoft Professional Developer Conference). Here's a quick update on what's new: To view the latest demos and sessions from the PDC you can go here (I think the sessions are uploaded the next day): [link] New Product Releases: 1.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 27, 2008
I met up with Jeff Reeder of SI at the ASA staffing show and got the low-down on metro area staffing markets, a hot topic for everyone because the spread from hot to not is as wide as ever. SI (subscription required) has posted a research document showing Detroit and Minneapolis as the bottom markets.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 27, 2008
Franz gave a keynote at ASA in San Diego and talked up one of my favorite topics, the Medicis and the origins of the Renaissance. His thesis was that to create a great company, you have to bring a cross-section of people together much like the Medicis did by bringing artists and thinkers of all kinds to Florence. The theory being that great ideas come from the intersection of two or more existing great ideas.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 27, 2008
This is really scary stuff. Stay tuned for frightening changes in employment law after Obama gets elected. With majorities in both houses of Congress, little stands in the way an anti-employer onslaught. Obama will not only socialize medicine, he'll socialize the work place too with job training, wage insurance, and expanded FMLA. For most businesses, this will spell disaster.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 23, 2008
No sign of recession at the Tempworks booth despite a sparsely attended trade show in San Diego as customers and prospects gathered around for personalized demos. The company announced two contract wins ahead of its press conference.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 21, 2008
[link] Tempworks will hold a press conference at the ASA show in San Diego to announce a CRM (customer-relationship-management) win over Salesforce.com. See the clip for a sneak preview of what swung the deal to Tempworks which was based on three criteria: Price Salesforce offered a low-ball initial price but by the the time mobile access was added their price swelled.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 15, 2008
It's no secret that the engine of economic success in France comes not from their socialist labor policies but from how easy it is to circumvent those policies. Pictured here are illegal temporary workers protesting their abysmal working conditions and complete lack of rights.
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Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 14, 2008
Last week I met up with Selectemp owners Steve Gaughan and Roger Cox , veteran business executives from the logging industry that brought their expertise in managing entire plants to the staffing industry. They credit their success to getting the details right with an emphasis on the interview process and creating great matches. I can't help but point out the hunting trophies I made sure to capture in this snapshot.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 13, 2008
Few staffing companies deliver the over-the-top service as Northwest Staffing Resources out of Portland, OR. I met up with Northwest's Gail Sears and Mary Sauers who have put together a online services program for customer and employees that makes them the easy company to do business with. They had some nice things to say about our support: "You have an incredible employee in Derek Nicholls. [.] extremely customer service oriented.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 10, 2008
You have to be a bit of an economics buff to enjoy Tom Esvlin's Fractals of Change , but he is one of my favorites. Here's a quote from his recent post on the credit meltdown: "So what's cash? Turns out for many people it's an IOU from the US – all anti-Americanism aside for the moment.
Staffing Talk
OCTOBER 10, 2008
My Dad always told me to watch the stock market as a leading indicator for the economy but better yet to watch the staffing business as a leading indicator for the stock market. So what do I see? Answer: not the nuclear Winter that many are predicting. Yes, public staffing companies have seen a collapse in their market caps. Yes, many staffing firms will see their lines-of-credit pulled by their banks.
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