XING Releases Research on Communication & Networking

The research unsurprisingly is endorsing XING… there were 7,418 randon XING participants..it’s european based with China input… Nothing from outr part of the world or Australia…hmmm so i guess they need more time to extend their global reach…

XING Research….

We have just published our third international survey “Communication and Networking on the Internet”, and  this year’s survey has a lot of interesting results. For example:
Did you know that standard communication technologies such as landline phones and Microsoft Outlook are becoming less important for XING members, while Internet-based networking is more and more popular around the globe? Or that 62% of XING members work in middle and upper management?

See more here and download the pdf… openBLOG

Seed Money: USD 2mil Funding Virtual-World Innovations – itsReal

By Charles Storch
Chicago Tribune
08/18/07 4:00 AM PT

The MacArthur foundation is accepting applications until Oct. 15 in two categories: one for “entrepreneurs and builders of new digital environments for informal learning,” with prizes of $250,000 and $100,000; the other for “communicators in connecting, mobilizing, circulating or translating new ideas around digital media and learning,” with prizes from $30,000 to $75,000. Winners are to be announced in January. 

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation continues to pour money into explorations of digital media and virtual worlds — and we’re not talking Linden dollars here.

The giant Chicago philanthropy is creating prizes totaling US$2 million to recognize innovation in digital media and learning. It also is funding a series of programs at the Second Life Community convention, to be held Aug. 24-26 in Chicago. (For the uninitiated, Linden dollars are the currency of that online virtual world known as Second Life.)

MacArthur said the new awards are part of the five-year, $50 million program it announced last fall to explore the influence of digital technologies on young people’s learning, play and civic participation.

Read More: TechNewsWorld 

end of work as we know it – itsReal

Increasing connectivity will change how and where we labor—even the very notion of an employer.

You have no idea how you’d get any work done on business trips if you didn’t have a laptop. You can’t remember quite how you lived without your BlackBerry. Your cell phone might as well be surgically attached to your ear, it’s so crucial to your job. Then there’s the Internet. It’s hard to conceive of getting through the day without Google (GOOG )—or, if you’re under 40, text messaging or even joining Facebook to stay in touch with your extended network of colleagues. In just a decade or less, technology sure has done a number on the way you work, hasn’t it?

Well, brace yourself. Over the next decade, the relentless march of computer power and Net connection speeds will bring more profound changes to work than anything we’ve seen so far. Consider just a few of the breakthroughs technology visionaries think we’re likely to see in coming years. Picture Apple’s (AAPL ) slick iPhone shrunk down to the size of a credit card. Then imagine it can connect not only to your contacts on the latest social network but also to billions of pea-sized wireless sensors attached to buildings, streets, retail products, and your co-workers’ and business partners’ clothes—all sending data over the Net to you.

THE RESULT:

Read more at BusinesWeek

CIA to Recruit Facebook Users

The CIA sees the internet as an excellent means to recruit candidates that have a “broad skills set.” Facebook is a good place to recruit as it is one of the best peer-to-peer marketing tools on the internet right now.

read more | digg story

Virtual Recruit – You Maybe HUNTED

weekend Today ran quite an extensive story, The HIP side of talent Search which interesting suggested that we are now the HUNTED not the HUNTERS in recruitment… recruitment firms and HR departments are finding the value of the likes of facebook, LinkedIn and even Second Life to HUNT out people that might fit their organization. The idea makes perfect sense as long as people within these online communities are honest..but be cautioned don’t be too open in your virtual lives, something undesirable could be lurking in your past which may appear harmless to you but could send you to the virtual reject pile – itsReal

For those that still prefer to be Hunter not the HUNTED, I found a new specialist jobs and careers recruitment site for Singapore called BestJobs.sg it currently has almost 50,000 jobs in its search engine which is powered by recruit.net – Happy Hunting