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are you Lucky ? Recruit.net’s Newest Contest is Live !
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Top-10 Economic predictions for 2008 – Courtesy Global Insights – itsReal
Top-10 Economic Predictions for 2008….
From APLINK – Whilst China is mentioned sadly Global Insights is of the mindset that the economy is driven by the US, who agree’s with this, if you disagree
– Let me know why… add your comments below ?….is there room for a virtual economy ?
The U.S. economy is now in the danger zone. GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2007 (0.0%) and first half of 2008 (0.8% in the first quarter and 1.8% in the second quarter) is expected to be very weak. This will make the United States extremely vulnerable to another shock. Furthermore, it is unlikely that the rest of the world will be able to shrug off the expected sharp deceleration in spending by American households. Global Insight currently predicts that world growth will be 3.3% in 2008, compared with 3.7% this year. With the potential for housing crunches in some European economies and a post-Olympics slowdown (or even bust) in China, the risks for the global economy are now overwhelmingly on the downside.
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From APLINK – Whilst China is mentioned sadly Global Insights is of the mindset that the economy is driven by the US, who agree’s with this, if you disagree
– Let me know why… add your comments below ?….is there room for a virtual economy ?
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Messge from CEO of Recruit.net Maneck Mohan to Singapore Bloggers – itsReal
Messge from CEO of Recruit.net Maneck Mohan to Singapore Bloggers
At Midnight tonight our Recruit.net Creative Feedback Challenge closes….
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Recruit.net continues to expand, moves in on New Zealand – itsReal
Over 30,000 New Zealand Jobs from Hundreds of Websites in a Single Search: http://NewZealand.recruit.net
New Zealand joins the Asia Pacific Recruit.net network, which lists over 3million jobs
Auckland, New Zealand December 10, 2007 – Recruit.net announced today the launch of a new search engine for New Zealand jobs. In one simple search, the service gives job seekers free access to over 30,000 job opportunities from numerous websites in New Zealand.
Launched in 2006, Recruit.net is the leading search engine for jobs in Asia Pacific, with over 3 million job listings from across the region, including Singapore, Malaysia Japan, India, Australia, China and now New Zealand.
Applauding the announcement on the expansion into the New Zealand market, leading search consultant and HR blogger Mr Steven Kempton stated, “I believe Recruit.net adds a real difference to the NZ job board marketplace. The ability to truly search from one site provides several valuable tools for candidates. “It’s a real winner for candidates but it’s also very positive for employers who can now be confident that it doesn’t matter which board they advertise on it’s possible for candidates to find that job through Recruit.net. You’ll automatically have more coverage for your job without doing a thing or paying a cent.”
Recruit.net uses proprietary technology to provide the most comprehensive, relevant and fresh job search site in New Zealand that includes job listings from numerous websites, newspapers, recruitment agencies, associations, and companies directly.
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Down Tatarah.com.sg website beams smiles BUT someone must be MAD as HELL – itsReal
Sponsors & Management must be MAD as HELL. Amazingly site is still down and new users are confused…apart from the smiles beaming from the site (see pic) there is one simple link to the RESULTS page –
…Members are MAD – See member post here Tatarah – Huge Dissapointment
(if you visit the above link look for the in-house NuffNang AD – APLINK gave NuffNang some advice recently – NuffNang
So what is really going on… is this another marketing gimmick to get tatarah brand firmly in Singaporeans Minds…Since my last Tatarah post on Oct 31 there must be enough time to add bandwidth. Since then I still see that lavish MRT train ads and as a marketer weep about the lost members they are not able to sign up…yet in the back of my crazy mind I still wonder is this marketing wizardry we are falling prey to… I doubt however that the sponsors think like APLINK…
Come on Tatarah let Singaporeans know what is going on !
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coming soon… a recruiter in Social Networks – itsReal
At one time it was about big job boards, but recruiting now is about meeting the candidates where they are…in social networks..
Looking for a new career 
..Historically, recruiting has not been a particularly transparent process. Organizations looking to hire put a job description out on a Web board such as Monster, CareerBuilder or Dice, and candidates apply on that limited information alone. The vast majority are rejected without ever knowing why. “In effect, corporations are basically screening people out. Candidates don’t feel like they’re being recruited into organizations, or being made to feel wanted,” Zach Thomas, an analyst with Forrester Research, told eWEEK.Though Web 1.0 recruiting technologies such as big job boards and vendor-powered ATS (application tracking systems) on corporate career sites have been effective in increasing efficiency and driving down recruiting costs, in the Web 2.0 world, candidates want more texture in the recruiting process—transparency, unedited content, answers to user-submitted questions and communication that is not only top-down. “It makes the whole process a lot more transparent. It puts the community in control of the information out there, versus the traditional ‘here is the position and we will tell you what it is all about,’ where the candidate can’t ask questions or see for themselves,” Thomas said.Organizations that limit their recruiting efforts to outdated processes will lose out in the long run, Thomas said, as a younger generation of job seekers wants more transparency in the recruiting process. Continue reading
RoundUp – Second Life – Cops, Shops, Jobs, Bad Manners, NANO & Fujitsu Island – itsReal
Just another buzzy day in Second Life
Google News Alert for: “Second Life”
Cops Learning How to Extend Beats Online
The Associated Press –
(AP) — Raise your hand if you’ve heard of “Second Life,”
police Lt. Charles Cohen asks a room of about 75 law enforcement officers
Anti-social bot invades Second Lifers’ personal space
New Scientist (subscription) – UK
A software bot that masquerades as an ill-mannered human user
within the popular virtual world Second Life is being used by UK researchers
Canada Post launches in Second Life
DM News – New York,NY,USA
By Chantal Todé On Saturday, Canada Post will launch a virtual city
in Second Life, where online shoppers will be able to visit the 3D virtual stores of …
Canada Post founds virtual city on Second Life
Media In Canada – Toronto,ON,Canada
by Terry Poulton Yesterday, Canada Post announced that it has
boldly gone to perhaps the last place anyone would have
expected it to go: Second Life. …
‘Fujitsu Islands’ open in Second Life
Prdomain Business Register (press release) – Navi Mumbai,India
1 Nov 2007, Tokyo: Fujitsu Limited announced today
that it has created “Fujitsu Islands” within the Second Life
three-dimensional virtual world operated by …
Enter the NanoLands nanotechnology challenge in Second Life
Nanowerk LLC – Honolulu,HI,USA
(Nanowerk News) You probably remember our little “
Nanotechnology in Second Life” story from a few weeks ago.
Today, NanoLands, the nanoscience and …
Second Life jobs fair pays off for KPMG
ComputerWeekly.com – UK
Professional services firm KPMG has succeeded in attracting
potential recruits through a jobs fair on the
Google Blogs Alert for: “Second Life”
Will Second Life Anonymity Be A Deal Breaker For Business?
By Erica Driver
Second Life is an anonymous virtual world —
most people cannot identify themselves with avatars that
use their real names. I say most people because I suppose
there is a chance your name in real life could be
Forrester Information and Knowledge… – http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/
RBS Launches World’s First Virtual Careers Recruitment Event in …
By Fiona Torrance(Fiona Torrance)
“Craig Hepburn, Global Webmaster for STA Travel,
told the audience how he had invested only tens of thousands
of pounds in Second Life (a fraction of what some brands have spent),
but by taking a sales-led strategic approach the …
Biz Blog Review – http://bizblogreview.blogspot.com/
Second Life 1.18.4 Viewer RC2 Release Candidate Update
By Joshua Linden
We’ve made Second Life 1.18.4 Viewer Release Candidate (RC2) available
Official Linden Blog – http://blog.secondlife.com
One year with Second Life Insider
By Tateru Nino
This is my 365th day with Second Life Insider.
Second Life Insider – http://www.secondlifeinsider.com
Do You Have A Home On Second Life?
By casasugar
Second Life is a virtual online user-defined society
CasaSugar — Home sweet home. – http://casasugar.com/
INTEL’s perspective on the emerging 3D Web – itsReal
This video is LONG and also very much a crystal ball look at what things will be like when computing power… from INTEL will allow for these types of environments… if you have the time and 3D Web is your area of interest check it out… look for QUAQ, ParaVerses and Virtual Surgery…
Video here at Intel Developers Forum
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Let’s have a Conversation – Conversational Marketing – itsReal
Spending on social media and “conversational marketing” – albeit still in their nascent stage – will surpass traditional marketing spend by the end of 2012, according to a study conducted by TWI Surveys, Inc., the New Communications Review writes.
The survey of 260 senior PR and marcomms professionals was conducted on behalf of the Society of New Communications Research (SNCR) and Joseph Jaffe for his book Join the Conversation.
Although social-media adoption has just begun – 70% of respondents are spending 2.5% or less of their communications budgets on conversational marketing – those surveyed foresee significant adoption and spending within five years: Some 81% of survey respondents said they will spend at least as much on conversational marketing as traditional marketing by 2012.
Among other findings of the study:
- Two-thirds of respondents plan to increase their spending on coversational marketing in the next 12 months.
- 57% say they think that in five years they will be spending more on conversational marketing than traditional marketing
- Nearly 24% say they think conversational marketing spend will equal traditional marketing spend in five years
More at Marketing Charts
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Big-Bit Voice for Virtual Properties like Second Life & Social Networks Launched – itsReal
Service to enable virtual world, social and business networks users to make voice IDD calls to the real world, click-to-call service also offers advertisers new channel to reach consumers and businesses on these new and evolving platforms.
SINGAPORE. October 2, 2007 — Big-Bit Australia Pty Ltd, a leading virtual properties full service solutions provider today launched an Internet-to-Phone Service with Wusic, a fast-growing internet-to-phone service. This service will enable users in virtual properties to make phone calls from within virtual worlds like Second Life and social and business networks to numbers in the real world. In addition, leading brands can use the click-to-call platform for promotional and advertising campaigns to reach to these new and evolving consumer and business platforms.
This newly launched service is based on Wusic.com, an Internet-to-Phone (not VoIP) service that enables users to initiate calls from the Internet (Click-to-Call). Wusic currently interconnects with all countries and provides an easy to use system for initiating calls and tracking of billing records. Users have been able to save over 90% off their IDD calls by switching over to Wusic‘s Voice Service.
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