Comments on: Non-Clash of the Titans http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/ Straight Talk for the Recruiting Profession Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Recruiting Animal http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-856 Recruiting Animal Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:39:27 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=510#comment-856 He started it. He started it.

]]> By: David Manaster http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-855 David Manaster Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:55:37 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=510#comment-855 Because I didn't want to get in the middle of a huge JD/RA pissing match. Why can't you two just get along??? Because I didn’t want to get in the middle of a huge JD/RA pissing match. Why can’t you two just get along???

]]> By: Recruiting Animal http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-850 Recruiting Animal Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:50:36 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=510#comment-850 Yeah, but how come I wasn't on the featured members list? Yeah, but how come I wasn’t on the featured members list?

]]> By: Dave Staats http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-849 Dave Staats Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:49:01 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=510#comment-849 It's a strange and interesting world.. Some will see this because they have feeds set up for my blog (ok,maybe 3) Some because they track Animal or David Manaster, some because they track TFL and some more because they track various trackers. It's gonna be strange to see who turns that into $ and how. Isolate content? Broadcast content? Aggregate content? Pay currently free content producers by the click? Like song downloads? It'll be fun to watch. And I think it'll make recruiting look simple... It’s a strange and interesting world.. Some will see this because they have feeds set up for my blog (ok,maybe 3) Some because they track Animal or David Manaster, some because they track TFL and some more because they track various trackers.

It’s gonna be strange to see who turns that into $ and how. Isolate content? Broadcast content? Aggregate content?
Pay currently free content producers by the click? Like song downloads? It’ll be fun to watch. And I think it’ll make recruiting look simple…

]]> By: David Manaster http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-848 David Manaster Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:33:13 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=510#comment-848 Animal - JD is a good guy, and he absolutely created the network on Ning. I am not on the featured member list either. Your numbers for signups vs. lurking vs. participating sound about right to me. I think that numbers can be used deceptively, but its more about figuring out which of those numbers are actually important and meaningful in any given context. For a social network, is it more important to know how many members there are? How many pageviews? How many messages? Time spent on the site? I have some thoughts, but no real answers. Social networking is still in its baby steps right now, and IMHO we will look back on this era in 5 years and compare it to when people were using homestead and tripod to host their personal sites back in the late 90s. There are opportunities that we have not yet thought about, and some of the things that we see as opportunities now will turn out to be mirages. Animal -

JD is a good guy, and he absolutely created the network on Ning. I am not on the featured member list either.

Your numbers for signups vs. lurking vs. participating sound about right to me. I think that numbers can be used deceptively, but its more about figuring out which of those numbers are actually important and meaningful in any given context. For a social network, is it more important to know how many members there are? How many pageviews? How many messages? Time spent on the site? I have some thoughts, but no real answers.

Social networking is still in its baby steps right now, and IMHO we will look back on this era in 5 years and compare it to when people were using homestead and tripod to host their personal sites back in the late 90s. There are opportunities that we have not yet thought about, and some of the things that we see as opportunities now will turn out to be mirages.

]]> By: Recruiting Animal http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-846 Recruiting Animal Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:48:09 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=510#comment-846 No clash? I notice today that JD was left off the Forsythe featured members list even though he says that he set up the site. No clash? I notice today that JD was left off the Forsythe featured members list even though he says that he set up the site.

]]> By: Recruiting Animal http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-844 Recruiting Animal Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:26:51 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=510#comment-844 I was planning to blog about this. Numbers are deceptive in this game. We had a huge number of hits on Recruiting.com when it was the primary blog but a huge percentage of them were from Google and many of them did not stay long. Likewise any network might have huge numbers but the rule of thumb I read about online from the marketing guys says that 10% of those read. 1% contribute and 89% rarely visit at all. So even though there are numbers on a network another one might come out of nowhere at any time and grab a large chunk of that soft membership if it attracts them more. Of course 90% of its members will be in name only as well. So even though I ask myself with every invitation why someone is creating a new network a bit of thought tells me that there are still opportunities out there. I was planning to blog about this. Numbers are deceptive in this game. We had a huge number of hits on Recruiting.com when it was the primary blog but a huge percentage of them were from Google and many of them did not stay long.

Likewise any network might have huge numbers but the rule of thumb I read about online from the marketing guys says that 10% of those read. 1% contribute and 89% rarely visit at all.

So even though there are numbers on a network another one might come out of nowhere at any time and grab a large chunk of that soft membership if it attracts them more. Of course 90% of its members will be in name only as well.

So even though I ask myself with every invitation why someone is creating a new network a bit of thought tells me that there are still opportunities out there.

]]> By: David Manaster http://www.fordyceletter.com/2008/07/10/non-clash-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-830 David Manaster Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:21:45 +0000 http://www.fordyceletter.com/?p=510#comment-830 Agreed. There is lots of room for two - and it is inevitable that there will be many, many more - social networks for recruiters. People will eventually gravitate towards what gives them value, and they will find different kinds of value in different communities. Sign me up for chn.ning.com! Agreed. There is lots of room for two – and it is inevitable that there will be many, many more – social networks for recruiters. People will eventually gravitate towards what gives them value, and they will find different kinds of value in different communities.

Sign me up for chn.ning.com!

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