That’s the point of a lifestream - you use RSS feeds to get everything into ONE portal page. ONE ring to rule them all. We’re using a hosted service called tumblr to publish our lifestreams and we’re both very happy with tumblr’s servic now that Shannon hacked tumblr to include comments.
Come along for the ride and start a lifestream of your own. It was our friend Ami Givertz who inspired me to get off my duff and create a lifestream. I was lamenting on a phone call with Ami that I often grew discouraged by the difficulty of keeping up with so many blogs and yet still wanted to have them be separate and distinct based on content focus and reader interest. So after I finished bitching Ami said that he felt the same way and had done something about it. You can always count on Ami to be an action oriented cheeky monkey!
You’ll find our last 8 posts from each of our lifestreams right here on the right rail of exceler8ion or you can go to Shannon’s directly by pinging shannonseery.com or aka thegeekmarketer or mine here on Julians.name. If you start your own tumblr then make sure to add Shannon and I as friends so we can keep track of each other.
I recommend tumblr because it’s super simple to use, not the slightest bit technical, you can use your own url (or not) and you can post ALL types of content, including text, video, pictures, and many more. It does all this with a very inviting interface that encourages you to post. Yes, and there’s the aforementioned ability to aggregate all your RSS feeds at the same time. If you’ve thought of blogging but haven’t because you don’t have the time then a tumblelog on tumblr could be just what the doctor ordered.
Oh yeah, and this video coves user generated content, social media, personal publishing, blogs, online community, video, web publishing technologies like HTML, XML, and RSS and has same great music from deus to go along with it (oops, this is the deus I meant from the music in the video - two new music finds in one!).
The good news is that I finally managed to get into Yahoo! Pipes. How have you fared? The bad news is that no one in our little community has done anything with it yet (search:recruiting). Quick, first one to do something cool with it gets…
well, good question. I’m just sitting here thinking about it.
On the other hand, our active job seekers seem to have the right idea.
My Dad just sent me a Fortune article called “I got my job through Second Life” all about real people and real companies finding jobs directly through Second Life. It reminded me that most every job I landed over my career was through my small network of friends and associates and how the same has been true for my business exceler8. Here’s an excerpt from the Fortune story.
“And just as the way we surf the web changed, the way that corporate America does business has changed in this middle space. Case in point: the most radical dotcom 2.0 recruitment wave is happening in virtual reality thanks to Second Life. Instead of posting a resume on Monster.com that will hopefully net a flesh-and-blood job interview, your avatar can be interviewed and hired all within Second Life, often for jobs possible only in virtual reality.”
“People who have been in SL since its inception might not be professional content developers, but they have become experts,” says Brandon Berger, senior strategist at OgilvyInteractive’s Digital Innovation unit. Hence, Ogilvy has hired a lot of people directly from Second Life to execute projects for the big name clients who have worked to be in Second Life.”
Imagine arriving for your Second Life interview in this little number…
I first heard about Second Life from Jim Stroud and went to check it out after our phone call. Back then (which wasn’t that long ago) SL hadn’t yet exploded on to the front page of every business magazine, blog page and tech site known to man. Despite my complete lack of interest in online role playing communities (which is strange given my dweebiness and love of online community) I recognize that I have to be involved in SL because it is a highly relevant community for my personal and business interests. I am a social media geek after all. While I find SL’s interface complex, limiting and ultimately boring, I’ll keep trying it for the promise that it holds in meeting real people. There ARE interesting people in this community. And just like other interesting communities, our exposure to the new people we meet in them expand our horizons on all fronts.
Hey Shannon, does this qualify for the category you coined “Job Search 2.0“?
CollegeRecruiter.com find themselves in a hot spot. If you’ve read my previous post this evening about mtvU buying RankMyProfessors.com you’ll know that a lot of heavyweights, like mtv parent Viacom, see big dollars in the college market. That’s why niche sites that really know the college world like Facebook and CollegeRecruiter are positioned so well in the coming months and years. Need I remind you that with the coming baby-boomer exodus from the workplace that demand on our next generation of workers may top that of any we’ve seen to date? Hey wait a minute, I’m in the wrong business.
After clicking on the “Add to Google home Page” button on CollegeRecruiter’s home page you’ll see a confirmation page acknowledging that you’re about to swear off all rights to your second born, (it’s all Google-e-gook to me) and presto, as soon as you hit the almighty confirmation button you’re taken to your personalized Google start page. Here’s how it looks on my Google home page where I searched for ‘Dream Job’ in Florida in my favorite industry.
This kind of user personalization and web site functionality has been a strong point for Google in the past year. Not long ago Google rolled out the ability to create your own custom search engine, like the one we used to create Popula8ion.com, which indexes our world of recruiting, jobs, and recruitment marketing over hundreds of sites across the globe. Personalized search is fast, more relevant, and more valuable because you get what you want the first time. The power of CollegeRecruiter’s Add Google button is in its simplicity: it is so easy and fast for users and publishers to put into action. It took me about as long to add CollegeRecruiter.com’s job search engine to my Google page as it did once for John Belushi to yell ‘Toga!’ in Animal House.
I asked CollegeRecruiter.com President Steven Rothberg about his Google addition via e-mail and he had this to say about it:
“Julian, I’ve been reading about “mash-ups” for a while now, where one web service is combined with another and thought that there must be some good potential there for CollegeRecruiter.com. I’m a big believer in first picking the lowest of the low hanging fruit. As the vast majority of web users conduct at least some of their searches through Google and Google has made it so easy to create these gadgets, it seemed logical to me that the lowest fruit to be picked would be to add our most basic feature to Google by enabling our users to add our job search engine to the Google home page with two clicks of their mouse.
I do not expect that this gadget is going to cause our traffic to skyrocket, but I do expect it to cause our repeat traffic to increase noticeably and, more importantly, make our site even more friendly to the job seekers who we serve. It is this devotion to the candidate experience that helped us win the 2007 Weddle’s User’s Choice Award for best job boards.”
That makes as much sense to me as going to college to get ahead of the game.
EXCELER8ion is where Julian and Shannon Seery Gude write on Social Media, Interactive Marketing, Technology and Internet Business Topics. 