PUBLIC MARKS from tacodog77

"If you’re a seller who’s adamant about getting what the agent thinks is a sky-high price or if your home needs updating that you’re unwilling to spend money on, you might find yourself getting a thanks-but-no-thanks handshake instead of a listing agreement."

With new online metrics and tracking tools social marketing can demonstrate accountability in ways that traditional marketing won’t ever be able to.

Job boards admit that they aren’t in the practice of carefully screening each and every “employer” or “job-seeker” out there, so there’s very little being done to weed out the scammers from the legitimate users. They don’t have much incentive to, either.

There can be only one. Story is not about Highlander, though, rather centralized computing.

Simple yet good advice on how to beat back the spammers.

Folks may tell you that problems with VoIP include power outages and a dependence upon the Internet. Guess what - to varying degrees traditional phones suffer from these same weaknesses, so don’t let those nay-sayers deter you. One actual problem has to do with those packets we mentioned above and how they’re compressed for shipping. Some software does it really well; some don’t.

"No, Mom, when I'm home for Christmas I won't update all your anti-virus software and all the Microsoft patches you've been ignoring all year. I'm a programmer, not a computer repairman. Please stop telling Nanny that's what I do."

"You might think of a few companies as performance experts, when they might be troubleshooting experts. But, troubleshooting is very reactive. If you want to knock the wind out of the competition today, you have to be strategically proactive. That’s what’s missing right now in IT."

Gaming programmers are performance-oriented to the extreme, because if you release a game and it’s slow, no one is going to use it no matter how cool it is or how many features it has. Other programmers often code first for functionality, and at the end of the cycle, start to worry about performance issues. Game programmers need optimized performance from the get-go. This means game programmers are willing to forgo certain things. For example, the enterprise side of the software world was very quick to move to Java when it first came out, but the game programmers didn’t.

"Gartner Research VP David Willis gave some insight into what the IT organization will be like 5 years from now. First, the CIO's goal will be to have IT enable business transformation. They will have four primary interests..."

NetQoS has opened a 5,000 square foot office in Durham, N.C., to advance the company’s network and application performance technologies.

"ZipTie software is a framework for network inventory management that provides a vendor-independent approach for maintaining a reliable and consistent inventory of network configurations....Why the name ZipTie? Because ZipTie’s allow you to organize your network cables and Z’s are cool."

"Whether you are applying the concept to servers, operating systems, applications, or storage devices, virtualization seems to come from some kind of IT heaven. However, it does add a significant layer of management complexity and if you're not careful, can quickly lead to IT hell."

The Dreamhost guys followed Cisco’s doc on upgrading their router power supplies and soon found themselves in a spiral of upgrades that lead to them purchasing a ton of equipment in order to overcompensate for network issues. Unfortunately, this is the common set of plays that we see every network hardware vendor run. You run into a problem, deploy the expert swat team ($$$). If that doesn’t work throw a ton of hardware at the problem and hope it goes away. Both these plays only benefit the hardware vendor.

If a recruiter cannot find a way to get a good match between his positions and quality candidates that are available and interested, then he’ll just post a generalized position and try to generate a pile, stack, or tsunami of resumes that he can stack on some poor hiring authority’s desk.

"The Internet and all the new technology that has come along with it to-date has turned a “relationship” process between recruiter and candidate into an administrative nightmare. Recruiters at computers making mass decisions about people…people - remember?"

So many postings today are so generic that you can’t tell if they’re for an administrative assistant, a high-level manager, a copywriter, or some sort of imaginary worker that’s willing to do everything in an office for relatively no money at all. When you think about the fact that most recruiting tools rely on keywords and search, its no wonder that the wrong people are applying.

No 1: Confidentiality: Individuals are entitled to the security and confidentiality of their personal and professional background and data. Any decision to make that data available to others must be at the specific request of the individual.

"We all know it would be better for hiring managers and recruiters if they could quickly hone in on the best talent with the skills they’re looking for, and we know the world would be a better place if job candidates could see where they ranked in relation to a specific job and to the other “players” out there. Well sports fans, the fantasy HR draft will soon be a reality."

"While some might see this movie as having no connection to human resources, I see it as the perfect metaphor for the typical HR department."

There are so many design flaws on job boards these days it’s a wonder that anyone finds work at all. Some boards instantly put your resume in the public domain, exposing you to retribution from your current employer, while other sites do absolutely nothing to protect you from identity thieves let alone your boss.

With frustrated parties on all sides. people aren’t finding the work they need, employers aren’t finding the employees they need, and recruiters are getting it from both ends. Yep, this trend of hate is beating everyone down, but recruiters might have the most to lose.

Recruiters find themselves with “third-stringers” at their door. Now, they can commit to the people in front of them and struggle through a long drawn-out battle that might not amount to anything, or they can focus on the starters.

I know this may sound like a contradictory statement but you can actually be estrogen dominant and still be estrogen deficient. This happens to a majority of women who are going through menopause. As their ovaries shut down, they begin producing less of all the hormones, both progesterone and the three estrogen hormones: estrone, estradiol and estriol.

"So, what do you do? Put together a “killer” resume and let it sit in a pile of other “killer” resumes collecting dust?...Man, there’s nothing like a “soul-destroying” activity to get you going in the morning, right?"