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Background Checks Part II – discrimination, privacy, accuracy and compliance

As a professional, many of us are troubled by the notion that we may be judged by our actions, our history, our lifestyle, or the people we associate with. In some cases we go through great lengths to create separation between our personal or public lives, even creating multiple silos within our personal and professional […]

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Background Checks, Pandoras Box, digital espionage, or public info?

What if you could take anyone you know and ask a question about them, without them knowing it? The digital world has created a virtual version of Pandora’s box, a secret treasure trove of information and insight that only a few people know how to use. If you had keys to this vault of information,

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What is Hyper Media?

As we move into different types of media, one of the most confusing is Hyper Media. A few years ago, Hyper Media was an entirely technical term used by computer programmers to identify the linking of information using code. This is a core of the word “hyper” – which is used in terms like hyperlink

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Corporate Reputation and Online Recruiting with the WSJ

Last week I had another great webinar and follow-up discussion with senior level HR and recruiting staff at a variety of blue-chip corporations. If you didn’t have a chance to attend the webinar, I captured a screencast of the presentation portion. If you would like to be included in the Q&A portion, make sure to

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Corporate reputation, why little words matter.

A little story with several points: I was browsing through recent changes to Facebook today, exploring some of the ways a user can track and consolidate information about a network. While researching this topic, I saw that Hanson Hosein (the Director of UW’s Masters in Digital Communications group @hrhmedia) had “liked” the new Edelman Trust

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Social Media Recruiting with the Wall Street Journal

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to share my expertise with a group of financial executives on a webinar that was hosted by the Wall Street Journal. If you have twenty minutes and would like to expand your thinking about how enterprise business can use social media (and be actionable, results oriented) then

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