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40 minutes after I finished posting about the speed at which information flies around the web saying:

In the Web 2.0 world, we have CEO’s blogging; employees blogging; reporters blogging; all with trackbacks and permalinks. The speed at which a story can spread for all to see in the blogosphere is dizzying. Social media and its uncoordinated actions of individuals – many voices, tones, and resulting comments – introduce a level of unpredictability into the equation that has to be managed.

… these official internal Jobster communications were forwarded to me by a reliable source requesting anonymity.  The information was not meant as Organizational Terrorism – the intent was to share the real internal communications and take the place of the blogo-speculation that has come about in the absence of hard facts.
The first e-mail was sent out last week. The second was sent out last night. What would your reaction be if your company sent this to you? What type of employee experience does this provide?

[tags]Jobster, Jobster Layoffs[/tags]

Today I built our Google Custom Search Engine – popula8ion. Popula8ion is a vertical search engine that you can use to search all recruiting matters.

We will launch the search engine at www.popula8ion.com shortly. For now, it lives on EXCELER8ion. Check it out.

I have added many of the majority of the active recruiting blogs and relevant recruiting and HR industry sites, but I have 96 invitations left for anyone that would like to be a contributor to help me with adding valuable recruiting sites and pages to popula8ion. Let me know if you’re interested and I will sign you up.

[tags]Google, Custom Search Engine, CSE, Google CSE, Recruiting, Recruitment, Employer brand, recruiting resources, recruiting research, recruitment articles, recruitment research[/tags]

It seems like Yahoo! has a thing for hiring my former bosses and Knight Ridder leaders. At first, I thought they were just trying to get away from me, but I left Knight Ridder before Hilary so I’m not so sure any longer. First, it was Dan Finnigan, who left Knight Ridder Digital to to run Yahoo! Hotjobs. Then my boss Tim Lambert followed Dan to HotJobs, later to run their local search sales effort.

Hilary Schneider, former Knight Ridder Exec and new Yahoo! Senior Vice President of Yahoo! Marketplaces

Now, Hilary Schneider, the rising star of Knight Ridder Digital, and then Knight Ridder, who many thought would succeed Tony Ridder as CEO, is off to run Yahoo! Marketplaces. I don’t know if there is one person who got more screwed, or was made more fortunate than Hilary, by the recent McClatchy purchase of Knight Ridder. I honestly think she would have taken over Knight Ridder (the screwed part) but I don’t think print, or the legacy burdened Knight Ridder was ever the best place for her (the more fortunate part).

Although Hilary has deep roots in the newspaper space, having worked at Tribune before Knight Ridder, she was always a progressive Internet expert and leader. At Yahoo!, especially working for a grounded and intelligent manager like Susan Decker, Yahoo! is a lot more likely to let her expertise and intuition run unbridled in a place where legacy is something no more than a decade old – not 100. Watch out Google.

Congratulations Hilary – we wish you all the best.

Update September 14, 2006

I hasten to add that I am wondering what all this news about Hilary means to Dan Finnigan – Executive VP and General Manager of HotJobs?  The information I’ve read so far indicates that Hilary has overall responsibility for all classifieds products, including HotJobs.  I have not been able to verify this yet with Yahoo!.  Is Dan still going to run HotJobs but report to Hilary?  What does Dan’s recent move from NYC based HotJobs headquarters, back to Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale mean – if anything?  It was Hilary who took over at Knight Ridder Digital after Dan left for HotJobs, and prior to these moves they worked together closely to put the whole CareerBuilder acquisition together when they represented Tribune and Knight Ridder at the time. As former peers, I would suspect things would get a little uncomfortable if Dan was reporting to Hilary now. But, that’s nothing more than speculation – I’m just intrigued by the moves and what hasn’t been said yet at Yahoo! and what this will mean to us who follow the online recruitment and local space.

[tags]Hilary Schneider, Yahoo! Marketplaces, Dan Finnigan, Knight Ridder Digital, Knight Ridder, HotJobs, Local, online Classifieds, Tribune, CareerBuilder[/tags]