Digital Recruiting

Matt's Top Ten most read blogs - the end of a series!

A little while ago I posted a list of the fifteen blogs I'd read the most in the previous month. I revisited my Google Reader stats this week and found out a couple of interesting things. First of all the list had changed quite dramatically:-

1) Cheezhead

2) Louise's UK Recruiter

3) JPIE

4) E-Recruitment in Retail

5) Valleywag

6) Guru

7) Life Hacker

8) Brazen Careerist

9) Adventures in Digital Marketing

10) Jim Stroud

Secondly I realised that the way I read blogs has also changed dramatically. The reason behind this change isn't just because certain blogs are updating more (although that does make a difference) it's because I don't use Google Reader as my only main tool to read blogs anymore.

I also use Twitter and Friendfeed

A couple of examples to show how this works. PDA and Techcrunch were two blogs I used to read a lot via Google Reader and featured quite highly in my list, I still read them as much but now access them in different ways. I link through to PDA via Jemima Kiss updates on Twitter and I read Techcrunch via Michael Arrington's RSS feed into Friendfeed.

Just shows you how quickly things can change!

I won't be publishing a list like this again as I suspect the way I consume blogs will change yet again.......particularly if my new iPhone actually arrives!

Matt

Where the hell is Matt?

You might well ask! Lots of travelling and the usual heavy summer (it is summer isn't it?) workload have curtailed my blogging time in the last couple of weeks. I'll be back with some thoughts soon though.

In the meantime the below is how another Matt answered the "Where the hell is Matt?" question. You can read more about him at his blog

Onrec tomorrow - Any Questions?

In keeping with Digital Recruiting's move towards Social Media (see Alex's CIPD post below). I thought I'd give people the opportunity to send me any questions they wanted to ask the panel during the discussion at the Onrec conference tomorrow. I'm chairing an illustrious panel featuring John Salt of Totaljobs, Adele Poole of HotLizard, Laura Stoker of Airs, Emma Mirrington of BskyB and Tony Roy of Careerbuilder. The topic is "How to minimise costs in recruitment during a downturn". If anyone who can't make it (or even those who can) want to suggest a question then either leave a comment or email me directly on matt.alder@barkers.co.uk. I'll blog the responses from the panel later in the week

Matt

Facebook App Overload

Following on from Alex's post, just to see if the blog can take even more streaming media this week! Tim this one is for you!

No Sex in the office then!

Careerbuilder have chickened out and pulled their video so the link in the previous post doesn't now work. Don't worry though the ERE site has a copy and the full story here

Call me cynical but this whole pulling the video thing smells like a wider publicity stunt, either that or their agency / marketing deparment is having a very bad day today!

Sex in the work place?

Well that got your attention!

Latest viral from Careerbuilder.com as tracked down by Cheezhead

LinkedIn - Follow up post 2

Interesting article here as posted by Peter Gold earlier.  Yes of course you would expect this to happen for a social media marketing manager role  (now there's a job that didn't exist 18 months ago!) but I still maintain it's the beginning of a major trend. My original thoughts are here and the first follow up post is here.

How many UK publishers are living on borrowed time?

Interesting article here from The New York Times. Gives an example of yet another US newspaper closing it's print edition and then goes on to profile how publisher IDG has transformed it's revenue base to become a majority digital business.

How many UK publishers can say they have done the same and how many have proper plans in place to do so? There is much hype around but personally I've seen only a tiny handful that truly get it, know where they need to be and most importantly know how to get there

Still the combination of falling readership, falling ad revenues, growing digital literacy, growing digital ad revenues and an economic slowdown will no doubt expedite the process. So cast your votes; which UK titles are going digital only first and which ones are just going

Matt

FR2.0

As we seem to be having Social Media week here on Digital Recruiting I thought I point out, to those who hadn't noticed, that Friends Reunited has had a web 2.0 face lift. Too little too later or perfectly poised to capitalise on having an alleged older demographic than Facebook? Who knows these days but I suspect the former. Despite the new platform (which does have some nice features) I couldn't see any clever job content integration, just a co-branded feed for Jobsite. So is it one last roll of the dice for ITV or just some tweaking to help them offload it?

Social Media

This one is dedicated to Alex and Tim!