A nice new blog; three excellent Web 2.0 apps
October 22, 2006A little hodgepodge here. Four items that are related to each other only because they all recently joined my list of sites and tools for working the Internet to prepare this blog. First, a new blog: Diversity Advantage.
Team-written, it promises:
Diversity Advantage is an informative blog written by a team of top experts in diversity and staffing. Readers are provided with commentary, case studies, practical advice and insight, news and interviews. The blog provides our readers with the information, tools and other resources they need to succeed with diversity recruitment and retention.Topics covered include: business case for diversity recruiting, getting management buy-in for your diversity staffing initiatives, global diversity, board diversity, diversity recruiting metrics, diversity recruitment marketing, EEO/ Affirmative Action, immigration, college recruiting, recruiting bilingual candidates, bias in the interview and selection process, diversity and corporate career sites, diversity referrals, working with executive search diversity specialists, diversity sourcing and using career events for diversity staffing.
This blog is a companion to the Diversity Recruitment Advertising Toolkit, which we reviewed here: "Book Review: Diversity Recruitment Advertising Toolkit."
My readers may also want to check out the Free Giveaways page.
UPDATE: On a related note, after posting the above, I discovered the “OFCCP Blog Spot, maintained by DCI Consulting Group, which describes itself modestly as “a human resources risk management firm comprised of the most recognized and dedicated experts in the field of EEO/affirmative action compliance.”
It promises: “the latest news and regulatory information in the EEO/Affirmative Action field. “
Next item is a web 2.0 application someone recommended to me with the warning: "this is addictive."
Indeed it is.
Stumble upon.com is to websurfing as a TV remote control is to channel surfing.
It gives you a toolbar with a stumble-button. Using a set of general areas of interest and demographic info. you provide, the application serves up new web pages when you hit the button. You use a thumbs-up or thumbs-down button to indicate what you think of them.
Collective ratings of users — and payments from website owners — determine what you see within a category of interest when you "stumble."
By selecting other users as "friends," based on pages to which they gave thumbs-up, you can further influence what you see (with their recommendations given more weight).
But it’s still basically a semi-random selection, which can be creativity-stimulating — and lead your websurfing in entirely new directions. Its creators say:
Members love the service as they feel a real sense of discovery - much like they felt the first time they ever used the Internet. Content delivered to people is targeted to their personal interests and demographic profile.For more info., see the FAQs.
The third item, trailfire.com, is also very web 2.0, and can work well with stumbleupon as well as more conventional methods of researching web content.
Trailfire allows annotation of a webpage with a "sticky note" that reappears when you revisit the page. You can tag the note with a title, add comments, and all notes with the same title create a "trail" that you — or someone you direct to it — can follow by clicking forward and back arrows on the sticky note. So even after you close the browser, you preserve the ability to retrace your steps.
I hope to be using this tool on this blog sometimes, to direct readers to a research trail for further reading on a particular subject. And for a demo., take a look at this extensive trail I created on electronic discovery in litigation.
Finally, I just discovered sphere.com.
This handy tool is a button that searches the blogosphere to find blog pages similar in content to whatever you’re viewing when you hit the button.
Hmm . . . come to think of it, maybe I heard about it from using stumbleupon . . .
You can use Sphere when viewing this Blawg even without installing the tool. Just click on the sphere - related posts link at the bottom of each post.
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