Turning my office into a video studio

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by eric shannon on February 23, 2012

in marketing,tools

As I watched online video taking over the Internet, my video lust grew stronger every year. Finally the lust overcame my fears and now I’m in the game! I’ve produced a couple videos for ORN (sample hosted on Wistia below). I’m hardly a natural, but why should that stop me? Since I enjoy seeing other’s [...]

Inspirational family meeting videos

October 19, 2011
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We try to hold a family meeting on the weekend as often as we can. I’ve covered topics such as listening skills, attitudes of winners and losers, peacemaking skills, and conversational skills for my 8 and 10-year-old daughters. Their favorite part to-date has been role-playing bad listening skills with us – they’re experts! Their second [...]

Our first blade server

August 5, 2011
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Yes, I know we should be on the cloud floating around in heaven with everyone else! But we have a brainy team that enjoys the challenge of getting top performance for every dollar.  And that’s why we will be installing this sexy server soon. during assembly: assembled: installed:

Rob Symington on Escape the City

July 6, 2011
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If you’ve ever taken the road less traveled or dreamed about it, you’ll appreciate what partners Dom Jackman and Rob Symington launched in March of last year at EscapeTheCity.org.  First, here’s Rob’s bio: Rob is the co-founder of Escape the City. The community for corporate professionals who want to ‘do something different’. He is interested [...]

Need a vacation!

March 25, 2011

I read almost every book that Verne Harnish recommends so when I saw this in his recent newsletter, I ordered do more faster a couple minutes later. Verne wrote: “Brad Feld Saved His Marriage — last month I read Brad’s outstanding book Do More Faster. Aimed at tech start-ups, there are plenty of lessons for [...]

Top 100 job search websites and categories

January 24, 2011
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This is the 2011 guide to the top 100 US job search categories. For each top employment category it lists the top 3 or 4 niche job search websites. Before you start, a quick reminder that if your job search skills are weak, it won’t matter how many jobs you apply to. Start here with The [...]

Barefoot in Boulder

January 22, 2011
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A solution for everything (or almost). After struggling with foot pain for 7 years, I read Born to Run (also Barefoot Running) and got fired up about trying out barefoot. It took 3 or 4 months to work up tough enough pads to do real hikes but I enjoyed most of it tremendously. Every once [...]

How to Become King

January 15, 2011
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I love to teach.  As obsessed as I’ve been with learning business for the past 14 years, it’s only natural that I like teaching my kids what I’ve learned. My girls are 8 and 10 years old so I love to find materials that really engage them.  Much of the time,  the things we talk [...]

Job boards will lead the next productivity boom

October 14, 2010
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I’m as disappointed as anyone about the weak economic recovery we have experienced in 2010.  And I could not be more disappointed about but the piss-poor state of education and culture of indulgence in America.  We do face a long-term structural problem in the economy as a result of our mixed up priorities. However, as [...]

Lesson from Boulder’s Four Mile Fire

September 13, 2010
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Get the real facts. On the second day of the Four Mile Canyon fire, we knew that a good number of homes in my parents neighborhood had already burned. On the third day, I found a satellite image showing their home had not been burned. I was overcome with relief after days of tension. But [...]

#boulderfire – Colorado’s worst wildfire in real-time

September 7, 2010
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Yesterday, a wildfire started outside Boulder a couple miles due west from my home. In the morning we saw wisps of smoke coming over the ridge behind our house and expected to see flames. There was no information on the TV or radio so we went to twitter search and discovered the fire was not [...]

OnlineRecruitingNews.com redesigned

September 2, 2010

We started publishing daily about three weeks ago at OnlineRecruitingNews.com and redesigned the site last week. Some small tweaks still to come… The September OnlineRecruitingNews.com roundup is now online. This is just the top news for those of you that are too busy for our daily news.  And no, we won’t replace Cheezhead — but [...]

OnlineRecruitingNews.com now publishing daily

August 15, 2010

We relaunched OnlineRecruitingNews.com August 1st on WordPress and have made good progress working out the bugs — so, if you haven’t seen it already, check out our August news roundup. While you’re there, please subscribe to the ORN rss feed.

Thinking past dot jobs

August 9, 2010

With the .jobs expansion moving forward, it’s time to think beyond the niche.jobs domain that you might or might not (probably not) obtain. At some point, there are going to be hundreds of new extensions including things like .resume, .engineer, .software, .microsoft and so on. The costs of defensive registrations and trademark infringement related lawsuits [...]

Fear

July 16, 2010

Many job board operators are fearful of the .jobs expansion. The value we provide to job seekers and employers flows through our domains whether we like it or not. Many of us chose those domains long before we knew what we were doing or where our businesses were going. But we know domains are important. [...]

.jobs – Gerry says it all

July 14, 2010

Does anyone know more about .jobs than Gerry Crispin? He called me yesterday with a bone to pick about my blog post. It is not really accurate to say that SHRM has been championing diversity.jobs. He was right, that’s too strong a statement. Nevertheless, Gerry is opposed to the .jobs expansion. There are a number [...]

Will ICANN step on a land mine with .jobs?

July 12, 2010

Ever since SHRM started pushing the benefits of allowing Employ Media to launch http://diversity.jobs, I feel differently about the .jobs expansion initiative. Why would SHRM pick on my small company? Over the years, my company has advertised in SHRM’s magazines, on its website and exhibited at its conferences. So, why would SHRM want to throw [...]

.jobs domain expansion – all over but the clapping

June 11, 2010

Now that the ball is in ICANN’s court, you can consider this a done deal (great reporting by John Zappe). ICANN has been trying to launch new TLDs like .books, .games, etc for ages. Their goal is to maximize the number of domains worldwide – that’s how they pay their salaries and that’s why .jobs [...]

Boulder Internet companies and tech startup resources

May 19, 2010

Boulder has been getting some good press recently which encouraged me to create this list of Boulder Internet companies and entrepreneurial resources. Feel free to e-mail suggestions to eric at justjobs dot com. Boulder startup resources BoulderJobs.org and MileHighTechJobs.com NewTech – meetup & networking group StartupGuru – incubator TechStars – mentorship and seed stage fund [...]

Jeff Hoffman at StartUpGuru in Boulder

May 13, 2010

Last night I went out to hear Jeff Hoffman (a Priceline.com founder) speak at a StartUpGuru event. Some of the attendees were there hunting for VC money, looking for consulting work, or looking to hire programmers. I went in the hope of hearing a good entrepreneurship yarn. I enjoy a good concert occasionally, especially violin, [...]

New .jobs video

May 12, 2010

Some new videos supporting .jobs are available at the universe.jobs website.  I have expressed my concerns about the long-run scenario for these domains as I believe that eventually the interests of SHRM, Employ Media, Direct Employers and employers will diverge. Nevertheless, I take my hat off to the Direct Employer’s team. This looks like an [...]

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