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Blogsy - the new cool blogging tool

Here is a new tool for all you bloggers. Blogsy is an iPad app the really makes it easy to add in varies forms of media into your blogs. Not only does it help spice up your blog posts, but it can help your formatting and spacing. I have been really impressed with the tutorial videos and it seems very user friendly. This is my first post using Blogsy so I hope you like. I am going to include a video of a demo of someone using the tool if possible. OK. I was just able to do it.....this is really cool. You type your blog on one side of the virtual page and then "flip" it over and sort of drag and drop items in like a Powerpoint slide. Real intuitive! Thumbs up and I think I will be blogging more now......

I will upload another picture....OK I found one of me on the web and Blogsy dropped it right in....no cut and paste, just drag and drop. OK...I am sold.

Jim

FullyFollow.me - try this.

Have you heard of this new site? Fullyfollow.me allows someone to click on one link/visit one spot and connect to you on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. It is a social media networkers dream! Try it out by full following me.....

http://www.fullyfollow.me/jimschnyder

Empire Avenue

I am totally hooked on Empire Avenue. The idea is that you have the ability to buy and sell stock in people in social media. Empire Avenue looks at how heavy of a user a person is of social media and then their share price fluctuates up and down based on their overall influence in "SoMe" (Social Media). It is addictive to try to get your stock price up and to identify people to invite to join in the fun.

If you want to get in, let me know and I will send you an invite and give you some quick pointers.

Have fun and enjoy!

Top notch best practice sharing event - Careerxroads

The CareerXroads Colloquium was hosted at DaVita in Denver, Colorado from 5/2 - 5/4/2011. This was a great event where sourcing leaders from top companies across the United States got together sharing best practices with each other. This was a great environment for learning!

I was able to share and demo of the PepsiCo Possibilities employment application for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. I was able to project it directly from my iPad onto the large screen for a real-time walk through. Other people were able to share stories about sourcing, discuss new cool tools and best ways to locate talent. Overall, the best thing about the CareerXroads Colloquium is the networking and the ability to interact/speak with people that are doing the same thing you are.

Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin lead CareerXroads and do a great job of facilitation. They encourage everyone to share and be open with the confidence that what is shared in the room can stay in the room (if needed). It is so nice to share best practices or bounce a question/situation to the group and get quick recommendations. Overall, this was a great event.

Twitter Experiment - Initial Tactics

I plan to do the following things that I learned from Craig Fisher (@fishdogs) and Geoff Webb (@Radicalrecruit) while on a CoolTools panel at TalentNet Live Conference.

Tactics:
1. Modify and complete my Twitter profile
2. Implement a Twitterfeed populated by RSS feeds
3. Leverage www.blastfollow.com

Twitter Experiment - 30 days after TalentNet

I had a long blog post describing what I was doing, but I inadvertantly deleted. Here I go with a second blog post.

Here is my plan - 30 days to grow my Twitter brand and presence after TalentNetLive (#TNL). I plan to implement some tips and tricks learned at TalentNet this past week.

Stats for Sept. 2nd:
I am presently Following - 153
I have 245 Followers.
I have Tweeted 301 times.
Listed - 11 (I do not really know what his is...)

Tactics and strategies to follow shortly..