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		<title>Moving to a new blog url</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting now&#8230;we&#8217;ve moved our blog to a new URL: http://smashfly.wordpress.com/ so that we can enable other SmashFly people to start blogging about this recruitment marketing space.
We&#8217;ve copied over all the old content&#8230;so starting today, please find us at the new blog url. We&#8217;ll also be updating the look/feel of our blog in the coming weeks.
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		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/moving-to-a-new-blog-url/</link>
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		<title>Business week: 3 million jobs going begging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting cover story over at Business Week entitled &#8220;Help Wanted, Why that&#8217;s a bad sign&#8221; . The article discusses the paradox that, in one of the worst recessions we&#8217;ve seen in many years, there are still 3 million jobs left unfilled.
The gist of the story is that we are going through a structural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=293&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/business-week-3-million-jobs-going-begging/</link>
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		<title>Ben Stein&#8217;s sales influence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this Ben Stein article entitled &#8220;The Sales Profession: Attention Must still be paid&#8221; , and found it interesting in the fact that I&#8217;ve never personally held a &#8220;sales&#8221; position. But the following paragraph struck home for me in my own dealings with exceptional sales people.
&#8220;In 1976, when I moved to Los Angeles, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=291&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/ben-steins-sales-influence/</link>
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		<title>The changing workforce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this blog entry entitled The Technology generation gap at work is oh so wide , which provided some basic stats on how different generations access online content. The  story isn&#8217;t particulary interesting to be honest&#8230;.yes younger people spend more time online than the boomer generation&#8230;what a surprise!
But for me, it&#8217;s just another data point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=286&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-changing-workforce/</link>
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		<title>Recruitment Marketing &#8211; know WHERE your job ads are performing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recruitment Marketing is all about data measurement and analysis. The only way you can improve your recruitment marketing effectiveness is to first understand how it&#8217;s working. Their are many different ways of measuring your job ads performance,  total views, apply clicks, applicants, and ultimately hires.  You can measure the ROI of your advertising by calculating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=279&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/recruitment-marketing-know-where-your-job-ads-are-performing/</link>
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		<title>SmashFly gets some press on leveraging new recruitment media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the April issue of Staffing Industry Analysts, Sara Moss has written a very good article entitled &#8220;Leveraging Recruitment Media: It&#8217;s not just about jost posting anymore: multimedia and optimized job ads&#8221;
I highly recommend that anyone in the recruitment marketing or talent acquisition space read this article&#8230;it&#8217;s not just relevant to staffing firms but to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=275&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/smashfly-gets-some-press-on-leveraging-new-recruitment-media/</link>
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		<title>Video on Career Portals&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend John Kamin forwarded me this link regarding a brief conversation regarding the effectiveness of video on career portals. On the forum, Craig endicott ends by saying  &#8220;I believe that video can be an effective part of the recruitment communications  mix. &#8220;.
Putting up a static video on a career site is just the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=272&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/video-on-career-portals/</link>
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		<title>New 5 minute SmashFly presentation available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re doing a number of things to improve how we deliver information regarding our WildFire Recruitment Marketing Platform. One of those efforts is a new 5 minute presentation that provides a good high level overview of our solution, as well as a walkthrough of how it integrates with existing web based ATS systems such as Taleo, Kenexa, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=269&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/new-5-minute-smashfly-presentation-available/</link>
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		<title>WildFire: Bringing social media marketing to recruiters fingertips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our WildFire Recruitment Marketing Platform continues to grow its lead in providing the most sophisticated recruitment marketing services available to recruiters. We have integrated a number of new social networking services seamlessly into WildFire, enabling recruiters to automate the process of growing their social networks and drive more traffic to their career sites. And they can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=265&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/wildfire-bringing-social-media-marketing-to-recruiters-fingertips/</link>
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		<title>Recruitment marketing should inspire action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this blog post by Chris Brogan entitled The Quest to Inspire Action , where he refers to a quote from Thomas Kempis : &#8220;The object of education isn&#8217;t knowledge, it&#8217;s action&#8221;
I found the post really interesting&#8230;it&#8217;s a simple statement, but it does provide a different viewpoint into how companies should be looking at how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elixirmike.wordpress.com&blog=6399&post=232&subd=elixirmike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://elixirmike.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/recruitment-marketing-should-inspire-action/</link>
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