I started doing this round up of interesting links last week. I hope you find it interesting/useful. Do let me know if you discover a gem
Sourcing and Recruitment
Day 3 of Bill Boorman’s #HRCarnival
Bill Boorman, the founder of The Recruiting Unconference, is running his HR Video Blog Carnival to mark the end of 2009 and the beginning of the new decade. He’s posting 10 videos a day from stars in the industry. My video can be found in Day 3.
I won SourceCon Challenge #2
Each year the Sourcing Conference (SourceCon) sets three challenges for sourcers. The winners of the three challenges get to go to the conference for free and compete to become the Grand Master Sourcer. This year’s second challenge began on 1st January and has taken up most of my week…
The Social Web
Can You Make It?
A great new event planning tool from my friend Daniel (@dtsn). Currently in Alpha. He’s also looking for feedback on this possible new design.
Social Networking in Plain English [Video]
These videos from Common Craft are fantastic. Go check out more of them.
Measurement Camp
Next event is on 26th January. They’re looking for a venue - can you help?
Chris Brogan’s Social Media Case Study Bookmarks on delicious
An incredible resource, tweeted by @scottgould on 2nd January and added to my Twitter Favourites.
How to say stupid thigs about Social Media
By Cory Doctorow on Guardian.co.uk
8 Things To Avoid When Building a Community
By Leah Betancourt on Mashable
Ning add Twitter integration to their social networks
I need to check this one out as I have recently started a network on Ning myself.
Local Links (Berkshire, UK)
Tragedy as The Hexagon Theatre fails to impress on Twitter
By Nigel Morgan (@Nigel_Morgan) of Morgan PR
I sent out one little tweet expressing my distaste at not being followed back by this local theatre and look what happened! Suffice to say, they now follow me and what looks like all their other real followers back and are seeming a little more chatty on Twitter. All’s well that ends well I hope.
Music
I keep an ever expanding playlist on Spotify of ‘Just Cool‘ songs, I add only the coolest of songs as they occurr to me. I share some of this week’s highlights here.
Classic: Jonny Cash - One
[Spotify link]
Classic: Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
[Spotify link]
Other
Photos: #Project365
A tag worth following on Twitter. I’m hopeless with a camera but love looking at what others can produce with them. To take part in the #project365 folks are taking a photo for each day of the year.
Food: The quest for the ultimate cheese toasty
Anyone that has followed me on Twitter for long will know that I love cheese - people even tweet me great little links like this one from @homagedufromage
Fun: My Phycological Profile from TweetPsych
Apparently I’m anxious and want to be in control… no surprises there!
Time Lapse Video: Beer!
By Amy Kimber (@amykate)
#uksnow: My Snow Pictures


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