Web 2.0
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Tactical Talent Management Becomes Strategic
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Just a couple years ago, we always seemed to talk about outsourcing activities, processes and tasks that were administrative in nature. Part of the boom in Software as a Service (SaaS) was a re-visioning of outsourcing in a way that provided the scalability and cost efficiencies of traditional outsourcing to other services. (yes, broad generalizations…
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The Internet in 2020
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The Pew Internet and American Life Project’s survey of technology professionals to evaluate what the internet might look like in the year 2020 yielded some interesting (selected) results with my commentary: The deployment of a global network: A majority of respondents agreed with a scenario which posited that a global, low-cost network will be thriving…
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How Social Networking Will End
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Colin Kingsbury wrote an interesting piece about the end of social networking (I’ve borrowed the title to his post as I’m getting much too lazy these days). He writes: Just to recap, Harry joined Facebook, and attempted to invite his entire list of contacts (all 4600 of them) to join him there. You’d think Facebook…
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Social Media Best Practice #1
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I don’t know whether the other Systematic (systematicviewpoints.com) intended for his first post on social media best practices to infer that this best practice (#1) is also the most important. However, I’m taking it that way and I haven’t even read the others yet (because they are unpublished – his is one of the sites…
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The Long Awaited Taleo Performance
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Last week Taleo announced their long awaited performance management module. I’ve been waiting for their talent management release for about a year since systemaciHR first heard about it. I’ve always thought they would be late to the game, and even though they have one of the best brands in talent acquisition, the fact that they…