• We got all excited about large-scale collaboration last week when we read the Business Week article on "The Power of Us" (see the post below from June 23 for the reference). Unfortunately, reality came crashing in awfully quickly. I trust...(More) [Future of Work]
   
• Build your own safety signs at the St. Claire web site. [HReSources]
   
• Article: How to use your blog as a networking tool [Heather]
   
• Barry Hurd -- whose techincal disaster blog I've become quite an avid reader of lately -- has a great recent post on "defining the box."  In Barry's own words:Defining the Box Many "creative" professionals say they think out of the...(More) [Jobsterblog]
   
• I am piloting a Jobster "Jobs in my network" feed in the left hand navigation bar. Do let me know how you find it. You'll have to scroll down to the absolute end of the left navigation bar to find it. It says "Recent jobs in my network" and ends with "powered by Jobster"...found it? (More) [Guatam Ghosh] [via MSpecht]
   
• Over the last 24 hours news has appeared that last week Microsoft began looking for freelance bloggers for their MSN sites. I have seen references by Jeremy Wright and Steve Rubel but not from the recruiting blogers Gretchen (probably because she is on leave) or Heather, nor did the job get posted in Blogger Jobs but they are appearing in Indeed. (More) [MSpecht]
   
• I have recently added another page on my site for an essay I have been putting together over the last couple of months on WorkLife Balance. A short summary is below:- (More) [MSpecht] [Andrew Marritt's response]
   
• Lights, camera, outsourcing!
  A documentary that's been making the film festival rounds aims to show the realities of offshore outsourcing to China, and the picture apparently isn't pretty. (More) [Workplace]
   
• The employment brand - the recruiter's role
  What is an employment brand? Put simply it encompasses everything that people think about what it would be (or is) like to work for the firm. The key issue here is that a brand is a personal understanding, not necessarily what the CEO, HR director or recruitment department want to present. It is inherently a personal view. Every company has an employment brand by default. (More) [Andrew Marritt]

John Sumser

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