Is Sir Tim showing us the way again…
Posted 6 months ago by Ed Charvet
31/12/2007
I have been thinking about this for a few weeks, but what with the run up to Christmas and the first Trovus "year end push", I have been putting off writing my thoughts on it. It's the semantic web debate. I first heard the phrase used about 18 months ago and gave no time to it, based purely on my lack of understanding. Then the New Scientist blog ran a post on Social Graphs as a potential model around which a true semantic web could form. And its no beginner making this connection, its Sir Tim (Berners Lee) himself. The...
Recruitment companies using social networks
Posted 6 months ago by Caspar
21/12/2007
Interesting piece of research today that Phil Summerfield has shared with me - it was research by Top IT Consultants which showed what recruitment agents think are the most important channels for sourcing candidates.Top of the list was traditional head hunting/ cold calling with 80% of the vote.The second one is the interesting one - 64% of people voted for Social networking sites. The surevey comments:"good candidates will be hard to come by. When candidates are in short supply in the marketplace it is increasingly necessary to use these tactics to tempt them out of their current jobs and into new ones.The high placing of...
Backfiring blogs
Posted 6 months ago by Jon Mell
18/12/2007
Last week there was a story about Glen o'Glaza's post on the Adam Boulton Sky News blog. In the post he complains about the conditions for journalists during their trip with Gordon Brown to Iraq. There seems to have been quite a backlash to his complaints, many comparing his conditions with those endured by the soldiers on the ground. There are two points to make here: Sky have done the right thing by keeping the posting up after the negative publicity. To take the post down after it had been reported in the press would have been a mistake, as people searching...
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