Digging Into Recruitingblogs.com v1.6

This week, we focus on yet another piece of the navigation puzzle. Along with blogs, videos, RSS feeds, member pages and various job listings, Recruitingblogs.com features the forum

The Forum is an amazing collection of ideas and conversation. In some ways, it's the beating heart of Recruitingblogs.com. This week, the swarm of voices who are our members took serious root in the forums.

From Technical tips to process questions, from professional advice to vendor critiques, the forum covered the vast arena that is our profession. As the membership multiplies, expect to see interesting voices emerge here. I noticed these conversations.

• BREAKING NEWS: Arbita and JobMachine Merge Paul DeBettignies notes this important shift in the industry's infrastructure.
• Vincent Wright laments Linkedin’s Ignorance Of Networking. If they were smart, they'd troll this place on a very routine basis (hourly), watching for branding opportunities like this one. Big if.
• Help ------- Advice regarding solicitation of my candidate by my vendor.This is Recruitingblogs.com at its best Tektree Gopi presents a reasonable standard problem and some powerful experts offer their input.
• Job board changes -- Getting the most from your postings Here's a forum piece from Susan Hand. Getting the best results from a job board means staying on top of some subtle changes. She's really talking about JBSO (Job Board Search Optimization).
• The Sourcing Forum seems to be owned and operated by Maureen Sharib. Rumor is that the way she adds so much value to the industry is because she is really quintuplets. It's probably not possible that you've missed her. Just in case, scan the forum.

While you are meandering through the forum, take a look at Paul DeBettignies. He calls himself the MN Headhunter because no one can spell or pronounce DeBettignies. Paul has had his finger squarely in the middle of the network explosion that is the Minneapolis network. If you want to know how to build a network, ask Paul.

As usual, if you see something worth highlighting, let me know.