Reveille and Hyperbole: StepStone, the leading European provider of e-recruitment software and services, announces a binding agreement to acquire ExecuTRACK, a market-leading vendor of strategic talent management solutions. The combined market strength of StepStone and ExecuTRACK – particularly in Europe where both companies are market leaders – will provide our customers with access to an unrivalled range of products and services from one single company
Kenexa (NASDAQ: KNXA), a leading provider of talent acquisition and retention solutions, announced the opening of an office in Malaysia to provide further support and development for Kenexa's products and services.
Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), a global leader in providing customer care, human resources, and billing services will continue to deliver customer service for Ann Taylor, a premier American women's specialty retailer, under the terms of a contract renewal.
Web2Corps' newest internet service, JobMatchPro.com, is going to launch on January 19, 2007. JobMatchPro.com uses the latest in web 2.0 technology and internet video capabilities to bring the power of social media to job searching and interviewing. Social media is Time Magazines "Person of the Year"; it is powerful, responsive, and its use is limited to the imaginations of its users. By bringing this element to job searching and online interviews, JobMatchPro.com will make it easier to match the right job up with the right employee.
Deck Chairs: Peopleclick, Inc., the leading global talent acquisition provider, announced the resignation of its president and CEO, Stephen A. Sasser. Chairman of the Board, Ron Kupferman, the company's first chief executive, will resume his role as CEO at the first of the year.
You Should Know:
India: DesiMartini New Social Networking Space Launched DesiMartini.com, an SMS based online social networking site for Indians around the world, launched by Pahwa KBS at the end of November is the latest entrant into this space but plans to beat out the competition and reach a registered user base of 1 million members in 6 months.
DesiMartini.com integrates the best features from popular social networking sites such as Orkut, Friendster and MySpace but goes further and enhances the user experience through a rich user interface and useful SMS based features. (Press XTV World)
Deep Release:
Enterprise RSS a focal point for employee information
Time Magazine says social media is the one thing that most influenced the news in 2006. Watch what happens in 2007.
Enterprise RSS is poised to become the focal point that employees turn to for information, eclipsing individual aggregators plus systems such as portals, intranets, and enterprise applications, says CRM Daily. A recent Pew Internet Foundation survey found nearly one in three individuals consumes RSS feeds. But for enterprises, the most telling response was that 63 percent of these RSS users subscribe to work-related feeds.
So much for the idea that RSS is still in its infancy.
The Unicom Conference that takes place in London in February 2007 touts the adoption of social media:
Social software / Web 2.0 ideas by large organisations has begun, and it is proving a game changing development. Understanding Blogs, Wikis, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Virtual Worlds etc., is essential in today's rapidly evolving business landscape, says their press release.
Datafeeds are becoming popular tools for delivering content to online audiences from Web sites. But such RSS feeds are far from popular with publishers intent on boosting page view statistics and fearing leakage through content that's delivered to users who will never come in to their sites, writes Robin Good. The real issue is not feeds, but the need for publishers to accept that an important portion of their revenues will rely on understanding how to make money from content delivered to their audience's personal devices and Web sites.
Indeed. Content syndication is one of the best parts of Web 2.0. Feeds facilitate the sharing of content and make it so much easier to consume the data. Perhaps you'll see the RSS icon on the cover of Time next year.
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