Read These Instead

Travel, work, and some personal stuff all conspired against having fresh content on the blog today - so I offer these fine pieces of news and information which represent certainly better and more interesting ideas and topics than anything I could have come up with today as an alternative.

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Read These Instead

Note - the slideshow is built using a really neat and free tool called Slidestaxx, I'd encourage you to check it out for a fun and engaging way to collect and share links, images, and other content.

Have a Great Weekend!

Links for the Week - November 21, 2008

Some assorted links for a cold, snowy Friday in the Northeast USA.

1. Boston College to stop handing out e-mail addresses to new students - from Read Write Web
2. The company as Wiki - an interview with Brad Anderson of Best Buy
3. From Mashable, how to keep track of 500 blogs in 10 minutes
4. Some amusing examples of corporate misadventures in new tech from Fast Company
5. From Citizen Marketer - how Yammer helps new employees
6. Working the 'stache into your employment brand - from Fistful of Talent
7. From Bersin - could a wiki be your next Talent Management system
8. Create short URL aliases and track the impact using Cligs
9. More businesses turn to microblogging for internal collaboration and communication - from the New York Times

More to follow as I stumble upon interesting stuff......

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Links for a Friday

For a sort of quiet Friday some assorted links to news, companies, or stories that caught my attention this week:

Halogen Software - The great people at Halogen Software have agreed to support my class this Winter. I encourage you to check them out for Peformance Management, Succession Planning, Compensation and Learning solutions.

Simplicant - A really bare bones solution for managing resumes and applicants for small organizations

An upcoming Webinar from CollegeRecruiter.com on using Facebook in recruiting that I plan on attending

From Mashable - How to monitor a multitude if Blogs in 10 minutes a day

If you are on Twitter, and like to follow a Tweet stream of news items from your favorite teem, check out SportyTweets

Looking to embed polls, rating, comments easily into your website or blog - Give JS-Kit a try.

An older post, but still the best, concise explanation of how Wikis are superior to e-mail for collaboration, courtesy of the Grow Your Wiki blog

The new Watchmen trailer was released

More to come as the day moves along....