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Is There Life After Twitter?

by Todd Raphael August 18th, 2010

Back on July 1, Amybeth Hale posted about a recruiter named Jerry Albright who’d decided he’d had enough of Twitter. I caught up with Albright on the phone to ask him whether his decision to give up on tweeting was a good one. We also discuss: The sky-high expectations of new Twitter users, and social media users [...]

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Why Do We Need These Clones?

by Dave Staats July 26th, 2010

A good old-fashioned quick rant. I like Yahoo Groups. It was the first version I saw for what I needed at the time. Now there’s Ning and Google and LinkedIn and many others doing what they do best but also trying to copy Yahoo Groups. And Yahoo is messing with me too now. I got an [...]

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Quitting Twitter

by Amybeth Hale July 1st, 2010

Our friend (and yours!) Jerry Albright made a brazen announcement yesterday that he is quitting Twitter, and that as of June 30th his account would be gone. On his blog, he states: “It was pretty easy to feel “OK” about being on Twitter during most of 2009. Everyone was there – and more were joining every [...]

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Game Changer? LinkedIn Messages As Evidence in Non-Compete Case

by Jeff Skrentny, CERS July 1st, 2010

Recent litigation by an recruiting firm owner concerning the non-compete of one of their former employees is bringing into question who owns your LinkedIn connections. Everyone should be watching this case.

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