Digital Recruiting

Close but no cigar

Just heard from Louise that Digital Recruiting has come joint third in the UK Recruitment Blog of 2007 competition. A big thank you to everyone who voted for us and of course to Louise for organising the competition. Congratulations to Peter Gold who won and who has proved that being controversial is good for business

Here's to Digital Recruiting going two steps further in the next competition!!

Happy New Year, anyone struggling?

Happy New Year everyone! I hope Santa brought you everything you wanted and that if he didn't you made a decent amount selling whatever you got on Ebay.

I know there are some controversial posts coming the way of this blog soon but in the meantime I spotted this on Dave Mendoza's site. I thought it might give those of you still befuddled by Xmas excess a quick reminder of what this blogging lark is all about!

Peace and goodwill to all, oh and please vote for us!

Well I was going to finish the year with a rant but decided that I'd postpone that until January and instead get with the general mood of mutual love, respect and sharing....even though it's doing nothing for our traffic figures (lets get back to arguing ASAP in 2008!).

I'm off for a couple of weeks now so just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and thank absolutely all of you who have written for, commented on, talked about or read Digital Recruiting in 2007.

Just before I go though the ever lovely Louise has asked me to mention the Best Recruitment Blog of 2007 award she has organised. You can read more about it here. To make it as easy as possible for you when you vote for us here is a link to the X factor style voting page ;-)

See you all in 2008!

Matt

Death of the mouse

I’m currently trying to finish writing a controversial post to end the year on but December is proving to be madly busy work wise! In the meantime though I just wanted to mention the Chinwag Event I attended last week. Very well run and some interesting thoughts on where the digital industry might be in 5 years time.

One of the thoughts that came up was the changing nature of the human interface with technology and the “death of the mouse”. It was mooted by someone that perhaps the key development in this area had already happened in the form of the Wii. Either way I reckon I could probably do with getting one of these for Xmas!

Forever Blowing Bubbles

Thanks to Alastair for name checking us in his interview on Louise's Blog the other day. Never being one to disappoint I therefore thought it was time for another vaguely business related amusing You Tube video. This one really made me laugh!

Football Crazy?

No time now to write a long post but I simply had to blog about this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gravesend_and_northfleet/7089473.stm

Basically via the site My Football Club 20,000 fans now own and have a large say in running Ebbsfleet United. A large say that will even extend as far as team selection.

Genius or lunacy? Well only time will tell but I'd err on the side of genius at this stage.

If you want to read more about how mass collaboration via the Internet is changing the world this is a fantastic book / site - http://www.wikinomics.com/

Facebook News

Spotted this one on Jason Goldberg's new blog. Yet another mildly amusing Facebook inspired vignette

Sound Familiar?

Interesting post here on the Adventures in Digital Marketing blog

Not written about recruitment communications specifically but perhaps something a lot of people in the digital recruitment industry can empathise with!

That's the way to do it!

Following on from the highly entertaining examples of how not to do a corporate video I thought we should post one that is great example of how to get it right. This has been blogged about countless times elsewhere but we've never posted it here. I think you would struggle to find a more spontaneous and genuine way to illustrate your company's culture. Unsurprisingly it seems they have no problems recruiting

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

New Faces

I can't find any more official stats on Facebook's growth since these. However a quick look at the London network page reveals that the site is now approaching 1.5 million members just associated with London. With its growth still in the explosive stage, unsurprisingly Facebook has had more than a few video tributes posted to it on Youtube. As we haven't had a musical interlude on Digital Recruiting for a while here is one of the better songs dedicated to it...