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I've been thinking about writing an article. I want to get back into the groove of daily publishing. Really, it's just about me. I like the discipline. I did it for 14 years. I've taken a year off. I miss it.

I was going to call the article "Monster Baiters".

I wanted to point out the fact that some widely read bloggers seem to make an enormous amount of hay at Monster's expense. It turns out that the harshest critics are deeply supported by Monster's competition. It's hard to f…

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I missed a couple of weeks in order to avoid offering version 1.13. I'm not superstitious, exactly.

In that time, we had a very successful Recruiting Roadshow in Minneapolis. Special Thanks to Jason Davis, Dave Mendoza, Maren Hogan, Steven Rothberg, Jason Buss, Paul DeBettignies, Kelly Wackerfuss, Don Ramer, Josh Kahn, Toby Dayton and George LaRocque. Paul DeBettigne's mom made a special guest appearance. One of the featured speakers was the former editor and CEO of the Minneapolis Sta…

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The Stats and The Hot Spots

• Last week, 102 New Blog Postings. This week, 111. Week over week growth = 8.8%
• Last Week 11 video clips. This week 14. Week over week growth 27%
• Last week, 10,000 members;This week 10,551. Week over week growth 5.5%
• This week,
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Another way of thinking about online community is the flow of activity across the front page of RBC. Each tidbit of conversation, each blogging broadside, each webinar, each chat are like the twinkling lights of a city as you fly over it. The faces, videos, forum postings and events indicate an ongoing set of interesting relationships. Each pulse point symbolizes the underlying network that is growing and developing here.

It's uncharted territory.

At the heart of thriving networ…

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Happy Interdependence Day

A community is forming in this little outpost called RecruitingBlogs.com. Somehow, the space is overcoming its very name. Imagine trying to sell houses in a town called "Ya Gotta Be A Writer To Live Here".

While the moniker implies one kind of involvement, the reality is quite different. RecruitingBlogs.com (RBC) is a place for experimentation. Its inhabitants are trying new things every day.

The first experiment is the one Dave Mendoza calls "Re…

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Did you see Jason's recent email highlighting the conversation Between Josh Letourneau and David Manaster? Josh's post is an attempt to build a conversation about the economic consequences of a downturn on our industry. David's rejoinders move the conversation off-topic and onto the differences between ERE and RBC.

Interesting t…

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This week, we're looking at axes and how they get ground

The interaction between social needs, politics and commerce is the very essence of community. Friction, the stuff that happens so that bigger ideas can be generated, comes from conflicting agendas. It should be no surprise that the blogging on RBC features lots of…

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If one is going to affect meaningful change in the face of LinkedIn's passive-aggressive resistance toward you and other vocal “activists” -- anticipating that the majority will continue to squeeze LinkedIn for as long as gives them a drop of something and eventually abandon you on to luxuriate on the moral high-ground – it seems to me that perhaps you should consider the value of sticking it out over packing it in.

So reads one of the comments in a long, inte…

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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 pr…

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So, this week was all about video. On Wednesday and Thursday, Jason broadcast a live video stream from the floor of the Kennedy conference. Over the twelve hours of broadcast, there were an average of 90 viewers...

The Recruitingblogs video area is filling with great content.

Although Bill Vick is the clear ringleader with his weekly videos on the front page, there ar…

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