So Ziff Davis Media, one of the leading integrated technology media companies in the country, just announced that PCMag, its flagship brand, will go all-digital. The final print version will be the January 2009 issue. For the past seven years, PCMag has leveraged its long-standing position with technology readers and advertisers to build one ...

Remember when you were a kid and stayed home from school because you were sick?  Remember how weird it was to watch all those daytime TV talk shows and think, “so this is how the other half lives.”  Remember how it was even stranger when you accompanied your mother on a brief errand or visited the doctor’s office and saw people out and ...

In the coming months, I’m going to be focusing some of Water Cooler Wisdom’s content around employee recruitment and retention techniques.  Let’s start with the obvious: the e-advertisements that you, as a manager or HR rep, might be perennially posting on major online job boards.  You know that these boards receive tons of traffic, but ...

Thanks to Steven Rothberg at CollegeRecruiter.com for sharing news of the innovative, first-ever Deloitte & Touche Film Festival. The festival invited employees in the accounting and consulting firm’s US operations to make short videos that answered the question ''What's your Deloitte?''. Teams comprised of one to seven people submitted films ...

It’s official: recruiting has entered the twenty-first century.  A few weeks ago, I introduced the concept of Web 3.0, and what do you know?  We’re here already.  TMP Worldwide is working with exclusive companies including eBay, Microsoft, HP and Verizon, to create NiW (Network In World), the world’s first virtual, 3D interactive ...

Employer videos, or video job advertisements, are popping up all over the Web from YouTube and Facebook to the company Web sites themselves.  And depending on the type of firm and its willingness to be cutting-edge, these videos are often really entertaining and attract candidates by standing out from a crowd of potential employers with ...

A lot of career experts have been buzzing lately about the necessity of having a blog.  Their rationale is that everyone who’s anyone is out there participating in the online conversation, and that if you don’t have something valuable to contribute, employers won’t be as impressed with you.   Personally, I don’t think it’s realistic – ...

[ImageAttachment] Here are some more insights on where our careers are headed as the twenty-first century progresses: Where we’ll be working:  We’ve already seen the industrial model of everyone at the same place, at the same time, begin to disappear.  As connectivity becomes ubiquitous, our work activities will be distributed across ...

[ImageAttachment] For those of us who are members of Generations X and Y, born roughly between the years of 1965-1985, the future is coming up fast.  Our careers are relatively young, and for those still in college, they haven’t even begun yet.  But already, technology is changing so quickly that we can easily imagine future work lives ...