I’ve been writing, speaking and thinking a lot about modern talent-attraction strategies.
Not long after speaking at a DisruptHR event to define passive jobseekers, I recently joined an Employee Cycle podcast episode to dive deeper into the conversation. Listen to it here.
Continue reading Employer Branding is central to your passive jobseeker strategy
As a kid, I kept a marble bound notebook with aphorisms, phrases, rhymes and orders of words I liked. Some ended up in stories and essays I’d write. Otherwise, looking back, I now understand that I was also just practicing my writing.
As an adult, I learned this had a term: a spark file, or a collection of terms and story starts to incorporate you otherwise. There is a difference between phrases I want to capture and the practice of writing ideas succinctly. Both have their role, and I now do something similar for both: collect ideas, story starts and specific phrasing. Increasingly though, I don’t hoard but rather let loose.
Annie Dillard says you gotta write and let it go
I moderated a panel on the topic of cities branding their entrepreneurship ecosystems.
In case you haven’t heard my ranting before: I think it’s silly for cities to talk about being the Silicon Valley of anything. Find my rants here and here and here. Funny enough, I was leading that panel at SXSW, another important vibrant national tradition I don’t want cities to try to copy.
Below are some questions I asked and a wrap video from the Amplify Philly house, where I did the panel.
Continue reading Don’t try to be Silicon Valley: a SXSW panel
My thoughtful coworkers brought in to the office a young Ben Franklin impersonator to discuss entrepreneurship and civic good in publishing last month. It was perhaps the most fun celebration of the ninth anniversary of starting what became Technically Media I could ask for.
(For some reason, someone shouted out that we should only have serious faces in the above photo. Believe me, we were having lots of fun.)
Afterward, I did a little Twitter rant I thought I’d save here for posterity.
Continue reading 9 examples of substance from nine years of Technically Media
