Postling Along...

So I've been watching the likes of Postling, Yiid and Onlywire since I started using Ping.fm quite some time ago. The beauty of being able to easily manage multiple social media profiles via a single site or tool is always appealing - especially if you've multiple platforms or very segmented audiences that you're addressing.

Truth be told, I'd signed up for Postling some time ago and ended up letting it fall off my radar until a friend and colleague asked if I'd seen it. Since his opinion and thoughtstream is one that I respect and he felt it was worth mentioning, I felt it most definatly warranted me putting it through a test run. Hey, I like to think I know a smart person when I see one!

So throughout the remainder of April I'll be posting here and there through the Postling tool. At present I have it set up to push blog posts through Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, Tublr and Squarespace. I've also set it up to ping my Facebook and Twitter accounts with status updates. Handy? You bet. Effective? We'll see.

One of the other things I'm interested in toying with a bit is the tracking features that Postling offers. From the "Dashboard" I'll have a look at my most recently published comments and posts as well as the ability to filter just comments shot back at me. But the item that I'm really interested in is the Bit.ly tracking integration.

So far my only complaint about Postling is the lack of ease found in searching out topics within the community and that I haven't seen a mobile app come out just yet. But hey, I'm betting they're working on it.

I'll pump these posts through manually to my blog as a Drupal CMS platform seems to be the only integration so far. What will also follow will be a more detailed review when I'm done playing.

Additionally I'll likely hit Onlywire in the same fashion in May for anyone interested. For now though, I'm simply Postling along one update at a time.

Postling Along...

So I've been watching the likes of Postling, Yiid and Onlywire since I started using Ping.fm quite some time ago. The beauty of being able to easily manage multiple social media profiles via a single site or tool is always appealing - especially if you've multiple platforms or very segmented audiences that you're addressing.

Truth be told, I'd signed up for Postling some time ago and ended up letting it fall off my radar until a friend and colleague asked if I'd seen it. Since his opinion and thoughtstream is one that I respect and he felt it was worth mentioning, I felt it most definatly warranted me putting it through a test run. Hey, I like to think I know a smart person when I see one!

So throughout the remainder of April I'll be posting here and there through the Postling tool. At present I have it set up to push blog posts through Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, Tublr and Squarespace. I've also set it up to ping my Facebook and Twitter accounts with status updates. Handy? You bet. Effective? We'll see.

One of the other things I'm interested in toying with a bit is the tracking features that Postling offers. From the "Dashboard" I'll have a look at my most recently published comments and posts as well as the ability to filter just comments shot back at me. But the item that I'm really interested in is the Bit.ly tracking integration.

So far my only complaint about Postling is the lack of ease found in searching out topics within the community and that I haven't seen a mobile app come out just yet. But hey, I'm betting they're working on it.

I'll pump these posts through manually to my blog as a Drupal CMS platform seems to be the only integration so far. What will also follow will be a more detailed review when I'm done playing.

Additionally I'll likely hit Onlywire in the same fashion in May for anyone interested. For now though, I'm simply Postling along one update at a time.

Mobile Marketing | Social Recruiting Summit 2009 #socialrecruiting

Check out this SlideShare Presentation - my presentation and partnership with Michael Marlatt about mobile marketing and recruitment at the Google hosted Social Recruiting Summit 2009

Mobile Marketing | Social Recruiting Summit 2009 #socialrecruiting

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Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

The day has arrived where Google has announced what some of us have been -hoping- suspecting was on the horizon... It's move into the browser business. While I'm a fan of FireFox and am enjoying watching what AT&T will do with Pogo, I'm intrigued by this announcement and what it might mean for internet users everywhere. Welcome to the browser game it's newest player, Chrome.

Get the rest of this blog entry over at http://blog.recruiterguy.net.
Get the official Google Blog release here:
Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

On the phone with friend from Toronto - I miss Canada a bit, I think.

Where is RecruiterGuy?

Some of you have messaged me asking where updates are... Just so ya' know - RecruiterGuy posts are primarily made here: www.RecruiterGuy.net

Thanks!

Nothing is Permanent Except Change...

One of my favorite quotes about change comes from Heraclitus who said, "Nothing is permanent except change." (of course don't get me started on why he's one of my favorites.) The scenarios that this famous quote can be applied to are, of course, limitless. So I'll do my best to stay focused in regards to my point.

I'm a fan of change. To be completely honest I've had more than one occasion where I'll have a project (both personal and professional) only half completed but will already have in my back pocket a lengthy list of what needs to happen in it's 3rd revision. Is this productive? I'm not sure - but it's certainly not boring. How do I combat this in arenas where I have unwaivering timelines? I simply make it a point to surround myself with people that balance my racing mind and hunger for updates with strong detail driven minds and an almost OCD'ish drive to complete things.

About a month ago I got a wild itch to begin a new blogging project that, to be honest, wasn't even completely laid out in my head. What you now see over at www.recruiterguy.net is the 'in progress' result. I've changed direction (surprise!) a few times but feel that it's at least got enough meat to throw up and play with while live. Some folks that I've spoken to felt that I should have waited to publish the site until it was 100% complete. I thought about this for a few days and decided against it - what if one of you dear readers posts or submits and idea that comes to you while seeing something on here that is in development... It would have gone otherwise without mention and we certainly can't have that. Then again, there is always the notion that a living blog such as this will never be 100% complete. Officially, anyhow.

So simply speaking to my new blogging/networking toy - I'm working on it. And as with anything else I touch, feedback is always welcome. Here is a list of just a few things I've incorporated over the last few days - keep in mind, these items may not be here in a week...

• Audio feeds for all blog entries (working toward W3 on this)
• Ties with various social network identities
• Strong Google Tools Integration
• Dynamic blogrolling
• Wikipedia Integration
• Photoblogging component

I know these don't seem like much in bullets like that - but I've a specific direction I'm heading and these were vital to get set up first. Sure I'm obsessive with change - but I do have some ideas that have to be mapped out, ya' know.

How to have a great blog?

Over the last few weeks I've had some questions (both online and in person) about blogging. Questions that were simply related to how to get a blog off the ground or to get some readership generated.

Let's be clear before I go any further, though... I'm in round 3 of my blogging experience that has been going pretty strong since 2001. I've changed domains and topics and interests and even online names. In fact, of all the blogging I've done, this is the first round where I share my real name and location, etc. (an interesting challenge might be to see who can find me under my old nics...)

So if you know me in person, you know that I've been blogging long before I became the unofficial official RecruiterGuy. Either way - to answer a few questions that I've been asked recently about blogging I thought I'd just share some wisdom from Bob Walsh.

Be Thankful
When you find that someone has referred to one
of your posts and start seeing traffic from that link, drop them a thank you email.
Be Interested
Show an interest in the people who are writing about your blog.
Be Respectful
Give credit when someone else's post sparks your creativity.
Be Helpful
If you see a wanton typo or broken link on a post, drop the
blogger a short friendly email pointing it out...Don't trash those who made mistakes on your blog - we all live in glass houses.
Be Organized
It's easy to lsoe contact with people in the blogosphere.
Make the effor tto keep their contact informatino handy and to keep in touch with them.

Bob maintains some interesting blogging and authored a great book, "clear blogging" that has tons of great info for beginner bloggers and certainly isn't short on quick and easy lessons on how to get started blogging.

Of course, I'm always working on a few of these pointers myself as I collect my own content from around the blogosphere and reorganize it here but... you get the idea.
Thanks for the great addition to anyone's library, Bob!