Tony Beshara

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

most people don’t know what to expect from a recruiter…they will act like they do because the don’t want to appear ignorant…. there are at least 9 or 10 different types of recruiters and they often function very differently…retained search folks, contingency recruiters, “placers,” internal corporate recruiters…all work quite differently. often when potential candidates contact or are contacted by a recruiter their expectations are not met because the recruiter failed to set them and the candida

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Earlier this week I (Michaela Hackner) was in Austin, TX attending the Convio 2008 Summit , a national conference focused on the use of the Convio's constituent relations management tool. Attendees primarily consisted of nonprofit organizations seeking to grow their donor base while also continuing to engage their existing audience. In normal economic times, this is not an easy task.

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JANUARY 18, 2008

My wif'e's down in Peru doing cleft palate surgeries with a bunch of other docs which leaves me cooking for the first time in about 12 years. Normally, as in before I was married normally, or rather before I had seven kids normally, I would have just high-tailed it down to La Belle Vie, the Twin Cities finest chef-owned French restaurant. But no, I've only got an hour to cook and eat before carting the 12-year-old off to a basketball game.

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Tony Beshara

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

…hello! …wake up! what employer is going to want to hire a candidate that says that the reason he started looking for a job is that his severance is about to run out… on top of that, the candidate put off looking for a job for four months, and in the next two months his severance will end, and so he has decided to look for a job… THINK THIS: “How does what I say appear to a perspective employer?

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Tony Beshara

JULY 10, 2008

one of our candidates “rewrote” her resume…left off a three month short gig at a company 2 years ago…she has had too many jobs and figured it would be better to do that. well, she forgot to “update” her resume on linkedin…so, one of our clients got it…went to linkedin to see what he could find out about her…found the “old” resume and decided not to pursue her. lesson: keep your resumes consistent…don’t shoot yourself i

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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.

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Forum One

JANUARY 11, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. (This gets us at Forum One pretty jazzed - we've been evangelizing a long while about using online services to expand public access to information, enable new forms of collaboration, and build online communities.).

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2008

I was recently struck again by a decade-old lesson in Forum One's web strategy work: Organizations eagerly developing new web tools often skip the critical step of figuring out what their target audiences are actually interested in. This step is usually essential and often overlooked. This time I was reminded in a general discussion amongst over 50 NGO managers and policy makers at a learning forum convened by the Global Water Challenge.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

The “ Green Enterprise Unconference ” we’re hosting on December 3rd is looking extremely timely and interesting. It’s timely because integrating environmental factors into decision-making is likely to become a key issue in 2009 for businesses and governments. Timely – according to The Wall Street Journal’s “CEO Council”, recommending today that the new Administration pursue a variety of alterative energy technologies, and “mandate” improvements in energy efficiency – strong calls by corporate CE

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

I got a vivid image of new possibilities for mashing up data a few weeks ago at Forum One's Online Community Summit in Sonoma. For me the highlight of the event (though there were many highlights) was a talk given by Owen Barder of AidInfo. He spoke of his vision for a "cloud of aid information". Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Forum One is at the in Austin this week, an annual meeting of organizations and partners that use Convio's suite of tools for content management, advocacy, email messaging, and more. Michaela Hackner and I (Andrew Cohen) will will be manning a booth in the exhibit hall on Tuesday, Nov. 18 and Wednesday, Nov. 19. If you're attending, come stop by and say hi.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Elizabeth Corley and members of the Aid Effectiveness team of Development Gateway presented at the November meeting of the SID Development Information Workgroup. They are working on some very cool projects to improve access to aid information and help reduce poverty by bolstering country ownership, increasing coordination among donors, and linking aid to results.

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Speaker: Speakers

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I've been a fan of an online community called Innocentive and a new announcement about how their program has successfully matched researchers with funders is a testament to the power of their online collaboration program. In short, the Rocekfeller Foundation funded a recent challenge on behalf of the TB Alliance to researchers in the Innocentive community to find simpler and safer ways to produce the TB drug candidate PA-824.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 9, 2008

There is a lot of excitement these days about "The Cloud" and how we can mash up web content in new and innovative ways. At the same time, many groups that we work with are overwhelmed by too many emails, workspaces, group sites, social networks, and other sources of messages, discussions, and knowledge. Wouldn't it be great if all the knowledge and human interactions that we each need to access and respond to each day were organized in ways we need it rather than by what tools or sites we use?

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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

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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 14, 2008

Our next Web Executive Seminar is coming up fast. It's titled "Online Video for Policy Impact." We've assembled an impressive panel of presenters. Su Patel of WITNESS, will tell you more about the WITNESS Hub a new advocacy platform for sharing and watching videos about human rights. Jeremy Ames who works in the Environmental Protection Agency's Indoor Environments Division, will speak about their Radon Video Contest -- the first video contest run by the federal government.

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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).

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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.

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

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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.

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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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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We've posted a proposed pilot project approach to "Jump-Start the Global Development Commons Content Ecosystem" to our global development Commons wiki. Our pilot project proposal describes how to get a model of the GDC up and running by selecting an interesting an valuable content/data type(s), developing a data standard for it, working to get a number of groups to begin publishing using the standard, and then providing an aggregation service to show how the feed can be collected and used by oth

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Our friends at the Institute of Medicine have a great job opening. IOM is looking to do some new and interesting things with its web site so this position will have some opportunities! The Web Content Assistant will be responsible for updating and maintaining web content, including drafting, reviewing and editing copy and managing web features. He or she will generate ideas and write columns and articles for online media, both internal and external.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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