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Telecommuting: Why Doesn't the U.S. Lead?

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:07:00 +0000

I am eager to meet with companies, employers and initiatives that could make such a significant difference locally and in our world by doing great business even better. Signficant change is needed, possible, and essential at this time, to advance Telecommuting Business Practices in our nation. I raised this question on the new Facebook Telework Group to gather more ideas.

What could we do to most influence Telework/Telecommuting within our nation?

What could come from a serious commitment to our citizens and our planet by a full on Telecommuting Employment Initiaitive?

Employers who have employed telecommuting were also able to reap large savings by having to maintain smaller offices and reduce energy use.
Telecommuting can reduce costs, increase productivity, reduce oil consumption and energy costs, and create jobs, done in sufficient scale.

The Telework Research Network provided business modeling for community or business to employ Telework. A recent Kate Lister Study showed potentially Billions of savings, Millions of barrels of oil, & employees benefit from $3-10K work costs, with 73,000 less people being killed or injured in traffic related commuting.

Businesses could save over $100 billion in real estate, electricity, employment & absenteeism.
Eliminating 218 million barrels of oil, could save $17 billion- reducing Persian Gulf imports 28%
Telecommuter Employee savings of $3,400-$10,500 in transportation & work-related costs
More than 73,000 people could avoid traffic-related injury or death.

It could reduce oil dependence, save money, create jobs in locations otherwise devastated by unemployment... A business office saves an average of $16,000 for every worker that telecommutes, why isnt everyone doing it?

The elephant in the office is this. Its just too hard to do! Its hard to trust teleworkers, and theres not enough chartered territory to be a pioneer so we keep traditional employment and being the largest consumer of Oil in the World.

BUT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DOING IT WELL? WHY NOT US? In a recent study, the Telework Research Network found found that nearly 40% of U.S. workers currently hold jobs that can be performed remotely. The United States has NOW the technology, the assets, the people, the business and the need, and yet we lag in Telecommuting because we have done insufficient work to encourage adoption. Despite that statistic, coupled, United States LAGS in an area they have every reason to lead in:

United Kingdom over 5% of the population telecommute..
Canada nearly 4% telecommute.
The United States lags with only 2% of the population teleworking.

Why doesn't the U.S. take a stronger leadership role in Telework/Telecommuting Programs?

U.S. Leads the world, with a staggering 22.6% of crude oil consumption
For the last 16 years the U.S. has consumed over 17,000 barrels of crude oil/per year
With a steady 2 year the U.S. Unemployment rate is 9.1-10%

Success case stories are tangible, but larger adoption and continuation is needed:

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT is one of the few major U.S. employers that promotes teleworking, with nearly 5% of employees working virtually and plans to increase the overall number by 50%. The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) saved $11 million in new real estate expenses through telework and office hoteling.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: CITY WORKERS: LESS ENERGY /REAL ESTATE COSTS, LOWER ABSENTEE RATE. Telecommuters were absent two fewer days per year.The city realized an $8,000 savings per telecommuter per year on costs ranging from energy consumption to workers' compensation claims. Demand for work space reduced 30%.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE LESS POWER, SIGNFICANT REAL ESTATE COSTS, EMPLOYEE SAVINGS: 56% of Suns Employees Telecommuted (nearly 19,000) Study participants averaged approximately 64 watts per hour at home, compared with 130 watts per hour at a an office-- thats saving over 5,400 kilowatt-hours a year! Employees benefit from reduced travel, saving more than $1,700 annually in gasoline and vehicle wear and tear. Sun saved about $24 million each year using the thin-client technology and $387 million in reduced office space and utility costs.
IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY: British telecom calculated an overall increase of 20% through telecommuting while Dow Chemical found an increase of over 30%.

Telecommuting ideas that could gain adoption when:

Government continues to lead by example with its practice, AND incents with business environmental or local tax credits for creating jobs and reducing U.S. Carbon Footprint. Eliminates counterproductive hidden costs of Telecommuting.
It is a national way of doing business, not just a metropolitan essential to combat rush hour fatigue and LOCAL pollution.
"Location" and "Compensation" are open for jobs that telecommute, with Employers thinking of the right fit for the job, regardless of location, for telecommutable jobs, and the employees they hire are compensated and career pathed equal to the traditional workforce.
Actual productivity and contributions matter more than "being seen" first at the coffee pot, or last one drinking coffee in the office at the end of the day.
Broadband that is largely available and affordable, even to rural areas, horribly affected by unemployment are benefitted by "Mobile Work Centers" where people can come to retrain, retool, and learn more about the types of jobs that are available to a telecommuting workforce and perhaps test drive if telecommuting might work for them.
Small Business Owners could consult or leverage Telework Centers to learn how they could leverage a teleworkforce for small projects, data conversion, all the way up to Business Development or hiring a "chief" level executive. Telework "coops" could actually allow business owners to band together to hire a percentage of the talent they need, say a Chief Technology Officer at $225,839, but they really dont need a 100% Chief Technology Officer, they really only need someone to dedicate 20% of their time-- they can co-op for the time and resource they need instead of buying more or less the talent they require, for a price they dont have to wait to hire.
Telework Initiatives provide best practices, consulting and leadership strategies or direction on successful implementation for business of all sizes: Human Resources (Hiring, Compensation and Retention), Accounting, Information Technology Standardization, etc.
Telecommuting is not viewed as a hidden or uncommunicated perk, but a way of doing business for people that qualify for the requirements of the job, and the telecommuting way of business.

Dawn C Khan - about.me | facebook | linkedin | twitter |

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Twitter 4 Top Tips & 2 Pet Peaves

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Mon, 02 May 2011 01:21:00 +0000

Twitter Top Tips and Pet Peaves: I LOVE this blog offered by Pam Moore @PamMktgNut: 50 Tips Granny Never Told You about Twitter; Social Media Etiquette #smhttp://bit.ly/9IxOuV

In Twitter, a Leader is a thinker, sharer, retweeter, and YES, a Follower. Lead with good content (articles, links, questions or discussion). Think about what adds value. Share and get involved in topics or events of interest. Retweet others who create great content you like. Follow your followers.

Use a URL shortener for making long URLs shorter.. Its good for you to offer context and allows others to forward or add comments more easily. (I use "tinyurl.com" or check out TOP RANK: Social Media Marketing Tools: 11 Best URL Shorteners). Facebook lets you connect and will automatically shorten your Notes, etc as tweets).

Gain followers: Remember you connect to PEOPLE not numbers. You missed the point and opportunity if you think your success in twitter is based on growing connections.. If you connect in a meaningful way, just like in Field Of Dreams.. If you Build It, They WILL come.

Participate in #Follow Friday #FF on Twitter Use of the # (hash tags) creates a trackable trend of all people with common interests. Follow Friday is about putting the hashtag #followfriday with a list of @"TwitterIDS" and then why to follow them. Mashable offers a great detailed instruction on how and why to do it.. Its a great way to cheer those you like and be interested in others as well. I like to #FF themes like (#recruiters, friends, #telework, etc)

Pet Peaves:

DM Automation made direct messages fairly impersonal and a huge waste of time to read, so I dont read them much. I stopped reading Twitter DM's when I became overwhelmed with a high volume of spam, hacking attempts, and ill thought out canned automessages, direct marketing get rich schemes on Twitter, etc. Dont "DM" me from Twitter with anything that needs response MOST people do not use it correctly and many people over use it for directing scripts.. I like LIFE and what your are doing NOW not what the script says to everyone when we follow you.

Ask a question and engage or respond or participate. Tweetpeater is the name I give to the person who connects to the people but never really connects because they only say or forward or tweet one thing over and over again. Dont BE a Tweetpeater.. Tweetpeater has shown they can take, they've got some quality giving to do. Tweetpeater can be the person that asks "how are you?" seeming to engage you, but then you go into their tweet stream and realize all they really EVER do is ask "how are you" and never respond or share more than that.. Tweetpeater is the person that will ask you if you are connected on Facebook over and over again.. They might send you the URL to comment on their blog over and over again asking you to please give feedback.

Dawn C Khan: ~ about.me | twitter | linkedin | facebook |

Business Media Profile: Why MerchantCircle?

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:59:00 +0000

COMPANY: MerchantCircle
800 W. El Camino Real Suite 330 Mountain View CA , CA, 94040 USA

Executives: CEO Ben Smith.
Founded 2005
Top Competitors: Groupon, Ingenio, Weblistit, TriValleyBook, CitySquares , LocalPrice, Yelp
Revenue: ??
Employs: 30
User Base: 1,500,000 Local Businesses

MerchantCircle is the largest online network of local business owners, FOR small business owners, driving traffic by combining social networking features with customizable web listings that allow local merchants to attract new customers. We are a small, growing company dedicated to connecting neighbors and merchants online to help build real relationships between local business owners and their customers. To date, well over 1,000,000 local businesses have joined MerchantCircle to get their business more exposure on the Internet, simply and inexpensively.

Merchant Circle: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn |

WHY JOIN?

Promote your business on the web in minutes
Be more visible in search engine results
Track what's being said about your business online
Easily advertise on Google, Yahoo! and more
Get local customer referrals

BUSINESS SOCIAL MEDIA OFFERINGS: The site is free with many free tools, and some premium services, but they also offer premium accounts starting at $30/month, as well as business verification services, search engine marketing, and website creation- all great for helping support your business. MerchantCircle Community Forum offers resources for how to get started.

Appointment Making Online (Click it And Book It)
Dashboard -- (Simplifies all key features and how to manage business effectively).

Company Profile Page ( How To Edit Your Business Information - Contact, Cities, Description, Key Words, Web links, Profile Photos, Story, Map Location, Layouts, News Topics, and Other Favorites)
PUBLISHING: Create your Own Content for publication on your page, in your community, and shareable out on other websites and social networks!

Blogs (How To Blog Video) ,
Product Descriptions,
Newsletters,
Coupons, (Easy to Follow Wizard) - David Gwynn Shares how to do it.
Advertisements,
Pictures,
Widgets,
Videos,
Online Answers

Local Indexes and Networking (How and WHY to Network with Other Merchants- because people with 20 or more connections have 3 times more traffic to their page)
PROMOTE: For Paid Merchant Services.

INTEGRATION WITH OTHER KEY SOCIAL NETWORKING:

Widget Integration with Sites Outside of Merchant Circle (How To Add Widgets - Reviews, Blogs, Newsletters, Logos, Coupons to other Websites or Blogs outside of Merchant Circle) Badges and integration with other social networks, blogs and webspaces.
Social Integration with Twitter and Facebook. (How To Integrate MerchantCircle- with Twitter and Facebook Wisely)
Facebook Fan Page Forum: Follow and Be Followed.. Grow and share a Facebook FanPage Following.

GETTING STARTED:

Build Your Business Page.
Build Your Following and Connect to other businesses.
Participate in Forums some Forums.
Create some blogs, news, coupons, ads.
Make Reviews of Other Merchants, create Lists, and Participate with Merchants you like
Grow your presence. Celebrate Partners and reward customers.

BEST TO FOLLOW AND LEARN FROM:

Merchant Circle @MerchantCircle on Twitter Profile has TONS of Help for business!
Lindy Asimus @lindyasimus on Twitter Social Media Training
Dawn C Khan @dawnckhan on twitter LinkedIn HFCN for Business Blog.

FEEDBACK: Have you read anything hot you felt should be included to support Business Media Growth using MerchantCircle?? Share it here..

HFCN Global : Web | Facebook | Twitter | Merchant Circle

Business Media Profile: Why Facebook?

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:34:00 +0000

COMPANY: FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/
Address: 1601 S. California Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone: 650-543-4800

Executives: CEO: Mark Zuckerberg , COO: Sheryl Sandberg , CFO: David A. Ebersman
Founded February 2004
Top Competitors: Google, MySpace, Twitter
Revenue: US $800 million (2009 est.)
Employs: 1700+ (2010)
User Base: 500 Million

Facebook is currently even more popular and most frequently visited site in the U.S, and its bigger than GOOGLE. The site was launched in 2004 by Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg, as an online version of the Harvard Facebook--where users could post photos and information to connecting students, but later opened its service to the general public.

BUSINESS SOCIAL MEDIA OFFERINGS: What a face gotta do with business? Every face of course works or wants to work for somebody.. Every face spends money and talks about spending money and the companies the love or hate spending them at.

Advertising (Facebook Ads) and Solutions for Facebook Target/Relationships/Budget Management
Pages (Create a custom page for your business)
Brand Reference Centers talks about permissions and how to use graphics and Facebook screenshots
Business Badges let you share your information in other social networks, blogs and webspaces.
Social Plugins allow others to participate or like your content and share it easily.
Application Development Reference

GETTING STARTED:

Build Your Business Page.
Build Your Following and Connect to other businesses.
Join some networking groups.
Share some events, news, discounts, etc.
Grow your presence. Celebrate Partners and reward customers.

BEST TO FOLLOW AND LEARN FROM:

Mari Smith @marismith on twitter. Facebook 101 Business Guide
Robin G Broitman @rgbroitman on twitter of Interactive Insights Group Facebook for Business Superguide
Dawn C Khan @dawnckhan on twitter LinkedIn HFCN for Business Blog.
Guy Kawasaki @Alltop on twitter Ask the Wise Guy: Website or Facebook Fan Page.
Scott Allen @ScottAllen on twitter Social Media For Business Growth Web Course

FEEDBACK: Have you read anything hot you felt should be included to support Business Media Growth?? Share it here..

HFCN Global : Web | Facebook | Twitter | Merchant Circle

Joblessness is a COMMUNITY not INDIVIDUAL epidemic that SHOULD be relieved.

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:04:00 +0000

Joblessness is an epidemic that affects communities and it affects an entire communities well being when jobs loss without replacement is extended long enough that it gives way to increased health trauma and homelessness. Families hope NOT to be one of those left standing, because unlike the game of musical chairs, when the music stops, those left without a seat must manage much uncertainty. Some become homeless, some without healthcare, find it difficult to sustain their health, some in fact die from untreated illness. There is no present "vaccine" for joblessness, but human caring, community and government programs must find a new resourcefulness so there is much less extended suffering.

News covers the stories like CNN last week where a man at wits end comes into a Florida school board meeting and begs for attention for his wifes job back then opened fire and shooting but missing each shot, unless his goal was to have his own life taken. WHY would we cover a story like that without looking deeper into the story? Was this a situation where jobs loss actually creates such despair in a family that the husband becomes a martyr for health insurance reasons?

In Minneapolis last night there was a vigil for 126 people who died of the affects of extended homelessness this year. Lets not have suicide, homicide or poverty affect that which makes us great.. Caring makes a difference in all times.. It is time for us to be open about the larger affects of joblessness, and work to create a solution that helps more people to live. Let us live and be well by helping solve the larger problems, its not just the inconvenience of lack of employment.

Whole families struggling for work face much trauma, but communities can and should make a difference.
It might not make news that people who are facing the tough news of layoff at the holiday season, with limited resources, are still able to come together, but sometimes they just need to have the resources to know that they can weather this storm, and be an example for others as well.. Let us start to embody that kind of caring for one another.

BRAINSTORMING THERE IS MUCH WE COULD DO FROM WHEREEVER WE ARE, WHOEVER WE ARE:

Merchant Discounts for Laid Off Workers
Donate to or volunteer for the Organizations that make a difference (Salvation Army, Churches, etc)
OFFER OPTIONS: Dont let people in your community choose between "Sick and Freezing" or Sick and Starving"
We CAN create new jobs and ways of working that fill hard to fill jobs and put good people to work, even in the most depressed communities!!
Where are the support centers locally and nationally that help with the broader picture of the impacts of stress around jobloss- health care after loss of insurance, stress and suicide hotlines, homeowner help line when programs fail to do anything but complicate and increase the trauma.

THIS IS A READER PARTICIPATION BLOG:

What programs have you found locally or nationally that help laid off workers who are facing extended joblessness with medical care, food, heating and shelter?
What do you see being done to make a radical difference in helping these people to connect?
What more COULD and SHOULD be done to see that the more critical traumatic elements of joblessness on citizens and the community they live in are preserved?

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Ozone The Band at First Night Akron New Years Eve

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:27:00 +0000

COME JOIN US
IN THE OZONE OF AKRON,
TO RING IN 2011's, FANTASTIC BEGINNING:

Ozone, a proud, Akron based Rock n Soul, Funk n Roll band, takes the stage at the John S. Knight Center from 7:30-8, 8:15 - 9:00 New Years Eve at First Night Akron.

First Night Akron, is a 15 year, New Year's tradition as a festive, family-friendly, alcohol-free New Year's Eve celebration ringing in the New Year with lively music, art, dance, and spectacular fireworks. Events will be held at various venues in downtown Akron, First Night Akron and promises to be a positive entertaining alternative to house parties and bar events.

DETAILS:

Entertainment Schedule: Musical artists in addition to Ozone, include Colin Dussault's Blues Project, Zydeco Kings, the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble and the Akron Derbytown Barbershop Chorus. For a complete entertainment schedule, visit the First Night Web site.
Venue Map: Ozone will be performing at the John S Knight Center Exhibit Hall 1. First Night Akron takes places at a variety of mostly indoor venues in downtown Akron including the Akron Art Museum, Akron Civic Theatre, Akron-Summit County Public Library, Greystone Hall, John S. Knight Center, Lock 3, METRO Transit Center, National Inventors Hall of Fame and the UA Polsky Building, and a few activities that take place outdoors, like the fireworks displays.
Admission Buttons: Admission buttons to First Night Akron 2010 are $10 and include access to all events. Children under 10 years of age are free when accompanied by an adult with an admission button. Buttons are sold throughout the Akron area.
Parking and Transportation: Free parking is available to First Night revelers at a variety of downtown Akron parking lots after 3pm on December 31. There is also a free shuttle for First Night button wearers that runs continuously between venues from 5pm to 11:30pm.

OZONE : Facebook | Reverbnation (Music Player) | Twitter |

Everyone who loves Music will agree, there are at least three fundamental elements that truly great music will always have in common.

First: Songs that begin in the hearts of the artists but end up in the hearts of the listeners.
Second: Lyrics that resonate everyday truths about widely known joys and rarely spoken of disillusionment and pain.
And Finally: If you can't do it Live don't do it at all.

OZONE represents new R&B energy while weaving a gritty reminiscent Rock Sensibility, not heard of since Sly and the Family Stone. They spin tales of love, unity and romance gone bad in ways that will make you feel like dancing and singing along. And the only thing funkier than the OZONE Sound, is the OZONE Sound Live. They Play Long. They Play Hard. And They Come Highly Recommended to your Heart.

Contact Information: Ozone the Band Odell Lyde/ Dawn Khan ( Mular )
3867 West Market 102 Akron, OH 44333
330.633.9978 / 330.703.1007
odelllyde@msn.com or ozonetheband@gmail.com

Google's Hiring Process : Googles Method for hiring Brilliant People..

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:14:00 +0000

Liane Hornsey, VP People Operations, Google

"My problem is I hire brilliant people. So 95-99 percent of my people are high talent. They really, really are. The people here are good. So we don’t use traditional methods."

Google is ranked 120th biggest companies in the world today (by Forbes) and has the biggest index of web pages in the world – it is utilized so much that its search engine receives over a billion searches a day and is used worldwide-even in Antarctica.

As an organisation Google prides itself on being a young, vibrant company with talented and creative staff. Google has an infamous philosophy towards its employees which is to really take care and look after them. They have many facilities at their establishments which are available to all their staff – free canteens, gyms, games rooms, laundry rooms, swimming pools, day care and multiple courts.

Added to that, employees are encouraged to spend 20 percent of their time working on their own projects, coming up with their own ideas. About 50 percent of Google’s products have come from that free time given to employees. In November of this year, Google gave all its employees a $1000 bonus and a 10 percent increase in pay which cost the company over $20 million. Could this be the best company to work for?

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MeetTheBoss.tv came face-to-face with the woman who is in charge of recruiting new people to the organisation. Liane Hornsey explains what it takes to be included as a Googler and what personal traits they look for in people when taking them on.

Join us on Facebook Jobs n Career Success to discuss hiring intelligence, tips and great ideas.

Net Affect of UnFriend Day: What about yo friends?

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:25:00 +0000

Studied the Net Affect of Jimmy Kimmel's UnFriend Day with interest..

What did you observe as a result of UnFriend Day? Did you participate? Did you watch? Any surprises or great stories to tell? Do share in comments if you have them.

My network grew by 10% and influence grew by 0.10%.
Before and After numbers in my Facebook Note:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&¬e_id=468130592001See More

Facebook Friends on November 17, National UnFriend Day.

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:59:00 +0000

Today is it. Jimmy Kimmel declared today November 17 National UnFriend Day on Facebook.

Jimmy Kimmel: Twitter | Facebook Event |

Jimmy Kimmel talked about it on his show, and there is an Event on Facebook today, while a few hundred people dedicated a "LIKE" to it, many are really thinking about what it means to be a friend on Facebook

Official Guidelines for the event say its cleaning out people who are not friends

on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.

It really requires us to think about what we value in our friends, getting rid of what you DON'T want to make room for what you do.. It is interesting to hear folks strategy for doing so..

some in the heat of rage at something said or done;
others deliberately planned and methodically executed.
others ache for those they will remove
some will be explained and quietly notified
others will be removed...

Heres the musical tribute from Jimmy Kimmel.. "To all, the Friends I've Un'ed Before"

Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker

FRIENDS: WHO DO YOU LOVE? I am as interested in some friend of the friend stories:

Put this in comments to this UnFriend Day or provide a LINK to your National (in fact GLOBAL) Unfriend Day Strategy. Answer any or all of these.

Who's your "longest REAL LIFE FRIEND" whos in your friends list?
Who did you reconnect with in your REAL LIFE FRIENDS?
Who's your most admired VIP (Entertainer, Musician, Author, BusinessLeader) in your friends list?
Most celebrated news from your FB Friends?
Who are your "friends online becoming best friends forever"?
Who gave you your happiest Facebook Friend story?

FACEBOOK UNFRIENDS LIST: We Can't Break Up, if We Never Even Said Hello. So we know who you love.. What do you value? Who would you unfriend from your friends list to make room for more people you do want... OR to just really FOCUS on the friends and experiences and moments you choose?

What type of person drives you CRAZY in your friends list?
What type of people do you just "delete" immediately no questions asked?
What was your craziest Facebook Fan story?
Has your "Friends" policy changed over time?

Dawn Christine Khan: I blogged my UnFriend Day Tale of the Tape today.

I am not looking for nor do I need an event- I treasure friends.. Occaisionally I make room for what I dont want --- abusive, mean or nasty folks, to make room for more nice people, but I dont delete a friend for no reason and certainly not for a media event. You can find me on Facebook. I have many "friends" on Facebook that I value, and as an open networker, with rules, I also like to make and meet new friends. I help alot of people, and have a large global network so really only a fraction of my business network is on Facebook.

I maintain a Fans page where I highlight and introduce friends who inspire and enrich the lives of others and really shine in business and in life.. A Jobs and Career Success Group which is an open place for jobseekers and career professionals to connect. HFCN is a business networking oriented page celebrating social networking companies and thought leaders.

Big Rules and How To Get Involved with Recruiting Professionals

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:04:00 +0000

Recruiting Professionals is a group on LinkedIn approaching 40,000 members globally! Our success is built on collaboration, creativity and courtesy.

Welcome Recruiting and Human Resources Professionals, this incredible growth represents YOUR interest in best practices and OUR INDUSTRIES value in sharing ideas and networking! With our continued growth, here are 3 simple rules for our collective success, and some tips on how to get involved with Recruiting Professionals.

3 SIMPLE RULES: On Topic, Professional Courtesy, Image!

1. Group structure and focus: Observing our groups structure keeps us relevant to recruiting and HR Professionals. Open Forum Business Group topics include RECRUITING & HR BUSINESS. Spam and Off Topic messages are deleted without notification, at Group Moderator's discretion, or in agreement with group members flags. Failure to observe focus will result in removal from this group.

2. Professional Courtesy, Support and Networking Environment: "Connect to me" messages dont add value or give a positive impression. Be memorable and create a reason for people to want to connect by getting involved. We encourage networking.. feel free to welcome members as they join, respond to discussion items, comments, include signature files in your participation, etc. We are glad to provide a positive and professional environment. Frequent or serious offenders of disrespectful behaviour, flaming, discrimination or any other behaviour not conducive to positive business networking will be removed at our discretion.

3. Image: Our Linked In Business Network celebrates diversity, creativity and our collective partnership. We are a large global and diverse Human Resources and Recruiting Network. Member profile pictures should reflect the same level of dignity you would bring into the professional workforce. Most offices would not expect to see in the office space without appropriate attire. They needn't be formal headshots, but professionally inclined NOT images of people bare chested or scantily clad lingerie. This network will therefore remove people who's profiles might be deemed offensive to projecting a professional image with clothing you would wear in an office on an average workday.

HOW TO GET MORE INVOLVED

We welcome your input and involvement , let us know if you would like to be more involved. We are interested in aggregating news, knowledge and leadership here on Recrutiing Professionals.
If you would like to get more involved in developing our network, we invite participation in topic discussions, subject matter expertise sharing and news, new member welcome wagon, and comoderators. We have room for several more of all of the following!

MODERATORS: Help make members feel welcome, support the big rules and moderate conversations. If a conversation gets off topic, brings it back to focus and supports the big 3 rules.
MANAGERS: SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS: If you blog, create Recruiting /HR Events, video or news feeds by RSS, let us know the RSS FEED, and we will add the best content to our RSS Feed News and Discussions. We also welcome and would like to invite participation by Subject Matter Experts who will be given a shared discussion group on industry relevant focus topics Partnering, Selling, Marketing, Tools, Best Practices.
MANAGERS: NEW MEDIA RECRUITING PROFESSIONALS TEAM: We want to introduce you to the real leaders of Recruiting Professionals. Would you know of anyone looking to do a biweekly interview or feature of a company or one of our recruiting professionals? Put us in touch.. We are looking for some creative and innovative sorts to create a new project for Recruiting Professionals where we will introduce compelling group members talking on a variety of topics our members care about. We are looking for folks who are experts in new media and not afraid to be a creative or collaborative role in creating a New Media Project thats forming up soon.. Video, Blog Articles, and Radio are involved... and its gonna celebrate the Recruiting Professionals who make a difference.
RECOMMENDATIONS/ SPECIAL EVENTS: Contact us to discuss advertising, special events partnering, think tank participation, best practice workshops, etc. We are happy to recommend members who add unique value to Recruiting Professionals and our industry at large.

Recruiting Professionals on Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=40757

Founder/Manager: Dawn Khan ( Mular ) http://linkedin.com/in/dmular

email: dkhan@hfcnglobal.com

http://twitter.com/DMular

http://companies.to/dawnmular/

Moderator: Arun Kumar http://in.linkedin.com/in/arunchiku email: arunchiku@rediffmail.com

Why Hire Telecommuting and Flex Workers?

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:43:00 +0000

TELECOMMUTING AND FLEX WORK CAN WORK IN COMPANIES OF ALL SIZES: Hiring can be expensive when you are constantly advertising and filling positions, so getting the right talent for your needs sometimes only requires a little more flexibility for great returns on productivity and more!

Companies on a fixed budget can attract more talent by offering flex hours and telecommuting to staff positions they might not need a full time resource for. Companies of all sizes can improve retention and increase value by retaining key employees with flex work and telecommuting options..
A Business and Legal Resources survey indicated that 50% of employer respondees are now offering telecommuting in some form, and that 2/3 of them have had telework/flex work programs for 3 or more years. Why not? It is part of the secret recipe for retention and for productive happy employees. In some cases perhaps you dont need to replace a person with the right flexibility and clear work requirements. A U.K. Cranfield School of Management found that flex hour workers tended towards more focus work then their counterparts with fixed office hours.

Case Study: Sun Microsystems 1997 "Open Work" Work From Home Program:

Saved the company nearly $68 million in real estate costs.
$24 million saved annually from thin client architecture (systems admin & energy costs).
Office equipment energy consumption rate at a Sun office was two times that of home office equipment energy consumption, from approximately 64 watts per day at home to 130 watts per day at a Sun office.
By eliminating commuting just 2.1 days per week, an employee reduces energy used for work by 5,400 Kilowatt hours/year. The average home uses 1000 KWh per month in energy.
Employees saved more than $1,700 per year in gasoline and wear and tear on their vehicles by working at home 2.1 days a week.
Sun's Open Work program prevented 29,000 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
By eliminating commuting just 2.1 days per week, an employee reduces energy used for work by 5,400 Kilowatt hours/year. The average home uses 1000 KWh per month in energy. *

How to get started? It saves money.. Identify the key performance attributes the candidate must possess, and what they must produce.. A well written job description with flexibility for the right candidate can present the type of talent you might not get otherwise, however not all people are suited for telecommuting work, so your hiring plan must be flexible enough to allow this talent to emerge.

Working with a recruiting partner can help you identify the right talent for your needs from a wider talent pool, without having to screen a number of lesser qualified people who are only looking for telecommuting opportunities and might not be a fit to your needs. It requires a recruiter with expertise in helping you identify the right work from home opportunity.. If your worker can telecommute, 1 day, 3 days, or work from home full time for the right fit, it expands your ability to get the right match to your needs, as some workers, who might not want to leave their loved ones to move cross country, might be JUST the right person for your needs.

HFCN GLOBAL ( Helping Friends LLC) has a huge base of top achieving experienced telecommuting professionals in Administration, Sales, Marketing, IT, Call Center Support, Accounting, and Finance. We would be happy to help you to hire quality people for your regular or flexible work needs. We can also engage surveys to help you establishe screening criteria for your work for home staff in your existing workforce, or to create a new mobile/work from home workforce. We are your partner in regular and "green" business Telecommuting employment.

* Thanks Janet Ferguson

Social Media For Business: Getting Started 101

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:50:00 +0000

A. CREATE A COMPLETE PROFILE:

REQUIRED: *LinkedIn *Twitter * FaceBook
OPTIONAL: *Plaxo *Google *Yahoo *Blogger *MerchantCircle *BusinessCard2 * FlickR * YouTube * Digg *FriendFeed

B. CONNECT YOUR ACCOUNT PROFILE ELEMENTS, TO INCREASE YOUR EXPOSURE WITH YOUR READERS.

Reference your key profiles cross accounts where appropriate.
In your email or blog posts, include your LinkedIn URL to your Profile.
Connect your various Social Media to one another as desired:

C. INCREASE YOUR INFLUENCE: EXTEND YOUR EXPOSURE AND PROFILE

Invite your friends in business who are on the various social media networks to connect with you.
Ask them which groups or individuals they recommend to get the best practices in your industry or area.
We teach best what we most need to learn.. So always be a student, observing the industry, but a teacher sharing what you learn, read, or offer business referrals/endorsements/recommendations.

PARTICIPATE:

Read and Participate in interest Groups, Question and Answers Topics, and Community Pages that talk about topics of interest. (LinkedIn Groups and Answers, Facebook, Yahoo and Google)

FIND FRIENDS:

REQUEST SPEAKER:

Denise Michael's Excellent Adventure

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:14:00 +0000

Denise Michaels Excellent Adventure

Denise Michaels Introduces a hot new fan and inspiration page is for the 40, 50 and 60-somethings who are still kickin' it and who refuse to abandon their dreams.

To see and celebrate lifes Excellent Adventure, go to: http://tinyurl.com/2ejrxlh

ABOUT DENISE MICHEALS: Her mission is all about supporting people in going for their dreams. She has amazing skills in marketing strategy, copywriting, sales, PR and more. For Denise, it's a passion about supporting people in acheiving their entrepreneurial dreams.
Denise Michaels’s Summary - I'm an author, a speaker, trainer and mentor. Over the last decade I've mentored over 1,400 women and men to succeed in their businesses. Women approach marketing much differently than men. Women love their businesses but they often hate "getting out there" and marketing and selling. I've developed systems that work to help them bridge the gap and become the women they've always dreamed of. My book, "Testosterone Free Marketing" is a business bestseller.
Over the last two decades I've worked in advertising, sales, marketing research, strategic planning and public relations. Always marketing always selling and always helping small business owners on a shoestring budget. The last eight years I've worked exclusively in the seminar and speaking business as a trainer and coach. I have a BAA degree with two majors in Business-Marketing and Journalism-Advertising.

Cell Phone Radiation: A Cost of Connectedness. Need for NEW Action

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:53:00 +0000

We are connected more than ever.. at any given time we send or receive call, text or internet content from our phones... But are we thinking about the affects of putting that much radiation so near our brains? Cell phone manufacturers are starting to, if you read the fine print!

New York Times ran an article November 13, 2010, "Cell phones and Cancer- A Far from Settled Issue" that highlight the evidence that cell phone manufacturers are adopting more proactive measures of package labeling to warn against the affects of Cell Phone Radiation on your brain or too near your body.

“Most cancers have multiple causes,” she says, but she points to laboratory research that suggests mechanisms by which low-energy radiation could damage cells in ways that could possibly lead to cancer.
Children are more vulnerable to radiation than adults, Ms. Davis and other scientists point out. Radiation that penetrates only two inches into the brain of an adult will reach much deeper into the brains of children because their skulls are thinner and their brains contain more absorptive fluid. No field studies have been completed to date on cellphone radiation and children, she says.

~ Dr Devra Davis has recently published a book about cellphone radiation, “Disconnect.” selected by TIME magazine as a top pick, provides shocking detail about cell phone radiation and your health, is receiving kudos from experts and policy makers around the world, and is the subject of broad multi-media coverage. Follow her work on http://www.twitter.com/saferphones on Facebook "Campaign for Safer Cell Phones" and on YouTube "Environmental Health Trust Channel"

I never paid attention to Cell Phone emissions until someone I knew was critically ill. A 2009 Wired Magazine article titled "Study Reveals How Much Cellphone Radiation You’re Getting" was run while my loved one was treated for the critical affects of what is believed to be Cell Phone Use based.. The diagnosis and treatments are not mainstream standard -some refer to symptoms as microwave illness or electromagnetic sensitivity.

A WebMD Article suggested there is cause for concern for longer term cell phone users. "''Recent studies are showing a 50% to 90% increased risk for two types of brain tumors -- gliomas and acoustic neuromas -- among people who have used cell phones for at least 10 years,""

Some of our newer phones with fanstastic features appealing to anywhere any time access encourages greater convenience and use, they push the limits with technology, but also with increased emissions, and thus a greater risk of exposure while other phones in 2010 are engineered with a focus on lowest emission devices. View the tech expert emissions ranking when considering a cell phone purchase.

Studies done prior were looking at the short term affects of cell phone use, more recent studies, while inconclusive suggest that the risks exist more in the longer term use. Enough of a risk for parents to consider if that cell phone "every kid" in class has, is really cause and convenience enough to be worth the risk long term. Cell phones are one of many sources of electromagnetic emissions, but it is the nearest source because of the earpiece location to the brain, it is more direct and focused exposure. Why is proximity of cell phone to head an issue?

A 2008, the National Research Council report indicated significant research is needed to reduce affects of cell phone radiation on human health, and considering in particular children's use as a special sensitivity. We do KNOW cell phone emissions become a factor because the U.S. Federal Communications Commission set the acceptable U.S. radiation standards for cellphones some time back, based upon on the rate at which energy is absorbed by a mass of tissue this Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) is represented in watts per kilogram (W/kg).

This study looks at the whole body SAR, and the Environmental Working Group suggests that the FCC standards allow 20 times more radiation to reach the head than the rest of the body, providing cause for concern about the inadequate margin of safety for cell phone radiation exposure.

A product was originally designed for the United State Department of Defense that actually absorbs the dangerous radition emissions from wireless technology earphones, without compromising cell phone function or antenna function. The Stealth Radar Shield™ is now offered to the mainstream, it is an incredbily simple but unique device developed using advanced radar-absorbing and stealth technology that reduces radiation emissions from the earpiece by up to 98%.

Beverly Mahone: Honey, shes got something to say!..

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:53:00 +0000

Beverly Mahone
Founder BAMMedia.
Author of Whatever! A Baby Boomer’s Journey Into Middle Age

Beverly Mahone from NC will host her own television show.. Please vote for her on the Oprah Winfrey Network Host your Own Show Contest at http://alturl.com/rjn7

As Founder of BAMMedia, Beverly Mahone parlays 25 years as a media journalist, to consulting and to inspire women to represent their best selves and to transform their professional expertise to shine a path that turns a spotlight to their own success. Beverly's expertise as a baby boomer expert has created buzz on numerous radio and talk programs in the United States, as well as being featured in the New York Times.

TWITTER FACEBOOK LINKEDIN BOOMER WORLD BLOG

Jobs Creation.. 1, 2, 3, NOT IT! 1, 2, 3 NOT IT!!

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:28:00 +0000

JOBS CREATION

If not you, who?

If not now, when?

RecruiterEarth Blogger, Mike Timkem published a thought provoking blog: ENOUGH DYSFUNCTION AND PROCRASTINATION, LETS START CREATING JOBS!

And it really got me questioning, in the matter of job creation, who cares? No seriously WHO CARES?

Wellness exists where the vast majority are gainfully employed, able to make ends meet, and participating in the local and global economy.. but really aren't we too busy to really focus on the solution? It's really much more convenient to stop at the headlines news believing the only role is Congress to make jobs, Recruiters to make placements, Jobseekers to find the hidden jobs market, or Business Owners to hire more people.. if its outside US, we dont have to own the problem OR the opportunity.

Would we be more interested if instead of thinking of JOBS CREATION we considered the positive affects ADDING jobs could have to REDUCE CRIME , IMPROVE COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE, IMPROVE ECONOMIC WELLNESS?

If you are in the 57% who feel the stimulus is NOT working, is the answer, everyone moving to Minnesota where the Federal stimulus is steadily working in creating some 12K jobs in the last quarter? Now Minnesotas results are COOL, but soo is the climate!! SO is there more that can and should be done? I think @frannyo has the right idea to start to move people.. and you can see some serious community support lining up behind the idea that social networking HAS created new and untapped possibilities for business, for jobs creation and collaboration.. now what are we going to do with it.

IF you are a JOB SEEKER: you are so busy trying to claim yours and manage the bad news, that you cant care about more jobs, just YOUR job.

IF you are a SMALL BUSINESS OWNER: you are so busy trying to make revenues, deliver services and manage the day to day operations that you cant care more about jobs creation except in the context it directly applies to an inhibits YOUR business.

IF you are a MUNICIPALITY or GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE: where not all governance exists in responding to really solving the problem of joblessness, safety - an issue that affects economy, healthcare, trade, business, and every area of community well
being.. you realy care about jobs creation in the context in which it
stops the "bleeding" but does not heal the wound.

EVERYONE knows a jobseeker who is unemployed, a business owner struggling to make revenues and balancing hiring needs.. You might not know President Barack Obama... SOME might know local or federal government representatives trying to solve the problem. If you are working, is this NOT your problem yet? IF you are congress, jobseeker, gainfully employed, a business owner, or government representative and are really busy, shouldnt this issue of jobs creation still matter.. and solutions be explored, shared, and delivered? Fingerpointing might stop when we agree to look at the problem from the venue of its easier resolution.

WHO'S JOB IS IT TO FIX THE JOB OF JOBS CREATION?

WHAT WILL DO THE MOST TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM?

WHAT CAN INDIVIDUALS DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

WHAT CAN SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

WHAT SHOULD INDUSTRIES AND CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

WHAT SHOULD GOVERNMENT DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

To quote lyrics from a great Beatles song, in the notion of JOBS CREATION.. "COME TOGETHER, right now, over me!" There is much we could do.. The value statement would be there if we approach it differently.. but is it worth while?
We will discuss this on the "Helping Friends Career Network" HFCN FACEBOOK DISCUSSION AND SUMMARIZE FEEDBACK FROM OTHER SOURCES THERE TOO!

HFCN

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Helping Friends,LLC preparing help for volumes of Laid Off Job Seekers

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:16:00 +0000

Helping Friends LLC is a full service employment agency serving general employment in all industries with specialities in Accounting, Engineering, IT, HelpDesk, Customer Service, Healthcare, Legal, and Pharmaceutical. With the announcement of layoffs at several healthcare companies, and todays news that Sun Microsystems has been acquired by Oracle, Helping Friends Career Network is gearing up to support their existing and growing base jobseekers nationwide.

If you hear of companies needing to hire, or recruiters needing help, we appreciate your referrals. If you have friends or family members that need help, we are HERE to help. Lets work together, we can make a huge difference in partnership.

HOW CAN I LIST JOBS OR RECRUITER SPLITS? Contact us! We are open to direct job listings, discount services, retained services, or recruiting partner splits.. Its easy.. just contact us to discuss your hiring needs, or fill out our online form and we will begin this work.

HOW CAN I HELP FRIENDS? HFCN Jobseeker resources are a free competitive advantage. Give them these resources-- HFCN for resume and Facebook and LinkedIn for social networking advantages.

Register resume-- at Helping Friends Career Network
Facebook-- HFCN fanpage for jobs, business news and partner discounts. Jobs n Career Success Group for inspiration and professional development. Refer people to Dawn Mular's Facebook Fanpage.
LinkedIn-- Join Extra Care 4 Careers Group. Refer people to Dawn Mular's LinkedIn Profile for extra networking resources, visibility and searchability by my business and partner recruiters.

Dawn Christine Mular Owner/CEO of Helping Friends LLC 3867 West Market #102
Akron, OH 44321
001.330.703.1007 or toll free U.S. 1866.256.1227

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Founder of Helping Friends Career Network (theHFCN), a nationwide Employment Service.

Business Networking: Never Hurts, Often Helps To Ask

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Recruiting Professionals Network on LinkedIn Approaches 31K Members!!

http://alturl.com/2pwa

As if taken from the case studies in Law of Attraction, "ask and it is given " in business feels like such great synergy. People are interested in connecting and discovering what we could do better, together. The grass roots success of Recruiting Professionals was never expected, but clearly those that won the most, were those most involved!

The story of win win partnership forged from connecting through social networking.
Never be afraid to ask someone how they did it and if they had ideas on how YOU could duplicate their success. In fact this week, it was the asking of this question that solved a problem for a person WANTING to expand their skills, a person WANTING to provide more opportunities within the community, and the unfolding of this learning venture, created rich solutions for the community they networked in.

A: Wants to learn social networking.. But who has time, and who would really teach me.
B: Has much experience, but networks growing like wildfire.. Heart to help but soo busy.

OPENNESS TO SYNERGY CREATES OPPORTUNITY

"A" was very approachable and interested in getting to know "B", assuming they were busy, read blogs, and training materials and formed a few questions about how they might apply these solutions for their industry or business problems.

"B" was very impressed that someone had read to learn before asking for how they might work together.. "A" had clearly done some work and had something to achieve. "B" was not too busy to miss that important discussion of how there might be synergies, not just demands.

BOTH had to agree to be transparent enought to discover the opportunities and when they did they discovered

The result.. A + B = SYNERGY.

SOCIAL MEDIA MENTORING OPPORTUNITY: For me this idea gave way to expanding the Recruiting Professionals Network on LinkedIn. I will share one one one social networking tips with those who help me add subject matter expertise, make our members feel welcome, or coordinate discussions and events.

We will introduce the leaders and they will get profile visibility within the community while learning industry knowledge, experience, and news that can influence and improve their business.

THIS IS NOT a job.. Its a few hours a week, with one to one coaching. PERFECT for a professional looking for proactive career management skills in recruiting. PERFECT for a jobseeker looking to keep attached to projects that both maintain their profile and grows their knowledge. PERFECT for students looking to gain experience in advance of their first job.
To be considered, you must have a complete profile on LinkedIn and EITHER Twitter or Facebook.

Thanksgiving 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:56:00 +0000

It would be the year of greatest change and as I close on Thanksgiving 2009, there is so much to be grateful for in business and in life.

Wishing you abundant grace, business, and peace for this season and the future.. All is well. Let us not be so busy that we miss it!

BUSINESS SYNERGIES: Frustrated by the difficulty of not enough time or process to be able to serve others... gave way to a breakaway business strategy that would help the clients and jobseekers I served, while keeping the focus on the right business activities.. Outsourcing to Bangladesh NON-critical records management was great win win win. NEXT GOAL: BUSINESS and JOBS PORTAL with the expertise and help of my dear friend Lisa Rodrigues!
BUSINESS REFERRALS THAT REALLY ROCKET BUSINESS: Recruiters Lounge publication of the Top 50 Recruiters on Twitter gave me a positive business and personal boost at the time when I MOST needed it.. THANKS for people like Jim Stroud, Vincent Wright, Bill Vick, who do more than network, they create collaborative business opportunity.
IMPROVED HEALTH: I am completely off of all antidepressants and Prescription Medications and feeling well thanks to Ayurvedic support of Adwait Tripathi. NEXT GOAL: Lose weight and sleep all night.

WATCHING THE SUNSETS: Grateful for my 15 year career in Information Technology at Sun Microsystems International.. Perfect employer, excellent experiences, friends for lifetime, and a sweet layoff package concluded perfectly my career in that arena, allowing me time, money, and resources, to develop HFCN. Thank you Sun, for my global work experience, for Rob Ghielen and Sheryl Driscoll's leadership as the key beginnings and end of my work in Information Technology... its all good.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE: LOVE makes much more difference in inspiring hope than any other thing. Through layoff, moves, divorce and family change, the unconditional love of friends and family to remind me of life balance and love me unconditionally has made all the difference in the world.

LEARNED AND APPLIED OPTIMISM: Learning together and applying strategy for growth sometimes shining through, sometimes trickling through.. We are source energy and when we remind one another of our capacity for greatness and our responsibility for becoming fully happy and engaged, we become best at reinventing and redefining our life to become our best selves.

LAW OF ATTRACTION FOR BUSINESS: Solutions from the universe to that which we do not know how to solve for ourselves.. OR how we got out of the way and found answers.. For me this year that came in the form of solutions for outsourcing, web development, search engine optimization, new revenue streams, and new media talent I never could have discovered on my own..

RecruiterEarth gave way to Dawn Mular's first Connected Radio Show: The Free Recruiter Social Network that is bringing new light, new media and great networks is Recruiter Earth.. So fun to be hosting Connected, a radio show highlighting the important role recruiters and social media play to create opportunity. Great getting to know and work with the always optimistic Chris Lavoie.

SocialSplits: A private and exclusive business network for recruiting professionals.. NOT your ordinary collaboration model, but a web 2.0 brand new and fantastic forum for leading edge Recruiters who believe collaboration creates breakaway business strategy, the first and most compelling of its kind!! We are creating revenue potential, knowledge and most powerful HR Splits Networking. Gave way to "Twitter Me Relevant" seminars for business and jobseekers. Great experience with leader, Jonathan A. Weiner.
Jobs n Career Success Professionals Openly Network: Facebook Jobs and Career Success program is on the grow, creating and sharing ideas for jobseekers worldwide, using a Law of Attraction approach that helps people in ANY region with more than job leads. Appreciating in particular the regular motivation from inspiration blog CarpeManna.com.

Tarek Ibrahim - New Media Inspiration

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:59:00 +0000

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Tarek Ibrahim

Tarek Ibrahim is a recent graduate, new media talent with on air radio and television personality and program production skills in Egypt. He is relocating to the East Coast (NJ area) of the United States and is looking for entry level career opportunities where he can bring some of his creative talents and grow his skillset. Tarek has recently helped prepared social media solutions for the Helping Friends Career Network and theHFCN.com.

If your company is looking for business administration, marketing, advertising, or is looking for new media program managers, with social networking skills, check him out.

Facebook | LinkedIn | Resume

Ning Communities: Compelling Content, Viral Pontential

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:01:00 +0000

Many Web 2.0 Apps are under appreciated for their value. Ning is free and easy to participate in. With a little help you can create powerful compelling communities with real and interesting business potential!

Here we will share how powerful communities can be built with just a little time and effort, that give you uncommon business value moving forward.. The basic networking community is powerful, but with developed add ons, it becomes a commerce integrator, relationship manager, and an enterprise of global business portals... Watch it grow, its an exciting adventure!

Here are some simple steps for starting your NING Community: feel free to share links to other articles or best practices

1. Set up your Networking Community on the Ning Platform.. Setting up really only takes a few minutes, but deciding the myriad of options and customizations might take a while.

2. Customize your Network Appearance to represent you, add graphics when its appropriate, but remember the real power in Ning is not in the pretty but the practical value.. sooo step 4 becomes important.

3. Add Content to your website. Add Blog Posts, Music, Photos of interest, Videos.. Create some Forum Discussion topics before you launch and invite some early members to help you chair topics, forums or groups.. Let this take a life of its own, but with people who will support your mission for the community.. Content rules, spam content drains... keep it interesting and relevant for your members, and they will keep in lively because of your shared interest.

The RSS Feed capabilities of Ning are rich for members and groups-- consider bringing some of this in to welcome topics of discussion.

Social Networking minicommunities will help members of other social networks connect-- consider a social networking exchange group for members on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn for example.

4. Invite Members To JOIN the network. Ning makes it easy to invite, and they can easily share or share their network badge from day one! NICE.

5. Syndicate and share organized Group content.. Note that some group content is more easily shared than others (like Best Practices, Brainstorming, Videos, News, Radio Broadcasts, Interviews, Podcasts, Community News. While other groups that may contain more discussion oriented problem solving, or data exchange, less adaptable to open sharing outside your community)

6. Grow SMART. Create your mindshare and grow your network Invite subject matter experts INTO your community who share your values.. Positive attraction in social networking.. its good for everyone.

WE HAVE MORE RESOURCES FOR EACH PHASE COMING SOON BASED UPON INTEREST. However the thing we are most often asked is how to make it all work together, with greater reach, but without so much personal effort. That is practical, wise, and the way Web 2.0 should be in the mainstream. We are creating a community web project to deliberately DOCUMENT each steps in Compelling Community Building to share.. We are also inviting people who want to learn to apply this valuable technique to THEIR business to join in this construction... with some of our experts, to create a really amazing project that is going to bring GLOBAL community GOOD to participants and experience to the COMMUNITY BOARD AND SOCIAL ENGINEERS.

Noteworthy Twitter Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:45:00 +0000

Blogger Related Twitter Tools -- Add ons for your Blog.
Bulk Follow/Unfollow utilities -- simplifies decision making on who to follow/unfollow.
Follower Management Tools -- Tools to help you manage your Tweet Peeps.
LinkBunch - puts a list of links into a linkbunch link for easy tweetin or sharing on mobile phones. Also nice on Facebook pages, with one short efficient link that can work very hard for you.
Polldaddy -- Create polls and post direct to twitter for great research or twitterverse feedback.
Twables - Twitter utilities for Business, Fun, Personal and specialty interest.
TweepML - Shared List of Twitter Users.
TweetaFile-- Attaches files to twitter as attachments.
Twittonary -- language and lingo of Twitter Users..
TwitterJobSearch -- Search job postings on twitter
Twonvert - Converts original text into shroter SMS Shorthand language.
TwitterFeed -- send your Blog RSS Feeds to twitter and track clickthroughs
Twittercounter -- stats and subscription coolness
WeFollow - A tagged directory of Twitter Users.. Very neat.. Easy!

Web 2.0 For Business Greats

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:06:00 +0000

Business Web 2.0 Defined: Implementation Strategies are practical for reputation building for small to enterprise level business for driving Brand Awareness, Customer Relations, Education,Web Presence and Traffic, and most importantly, Sales.

What is Web 2.0 for conceptual mapping of the software model confluence that makes up Web 2.0 for business.
Business Freelancers Toolset lists 100 Web 2.0 Applications for benefit of business owners.
Enterprise"FLATNESSES" refers to some of the core capabilities and systems that are being used for defining attributes of how a larger size business Enterprise might be looking to leverage 2.0 Business Applications: Freeform (Collaboration), Links (Flexibility), Authorship, Tagging (extension and advancements), Network-oriented, Extensions, Search, Social, Emergence, Signals .

WEB GUIDES FOR BUSINESS:

Friendship Day

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:24:00 +0000

What is International Friendship Day? August, on the first Sunday is the U.S. Congress Declared day of dedication to the celebration of friendship. It was my friend Arup who first told me about the 75 days of celebration Friendship Day Tradition and how it got its inception when, in 1935, American govt. had killed a person in the 1st sat of Aug. The next day his friend died commiting Suicide. In his memory American govt. has declared 1st Sunday of every August as Friendship Day.

So on today, August 2, Happy Friendship Day. Is this any different than "Friends Day" by other countries? On July 17th, 2009 Facebook users and several groups launched a marketing campaign declaring “Friends Day” as July, 20th, other groups celebrate August . The "Twitter-verse" was busy today with well wishes for International Friendship Day. Whether a manufactured marketing event in July or August or any other time... the time to celebrate friendship is when we remember friends.. is it so bad to have multiple days to focus on gratitude of people, our dearest, greatest resource?

How Do YOU Celebrate International Friendship Day? Some organize parties, plan camping trips, others make the day a time to call friends, Skype, write letters of appreciation etc.. One of my friends suggested making a mix music list that represented the music of your friendships... FUN-- and no longer needed on a cd with iTunes play lists, etc!!

With the advent of social networking it is easier and more efficient but is MORE reach better? It IS easier to get in touch and keep in touch, is it as meaningful?

Information on global friendships is easier to access, ideas and support of friendship too.. So nice to see what was sometimes regarded as a merely commercial effort, to take the form of friendship banding together more globally and environmentally as a friendly force for positive change and connectivity.

Friendship in a Web 2.0 World from Green Marketing 2.0 offered a most profound commentary on todays social networking and friendship, "Social networks have redefined friendship and the way we connect to each other, allowing us to maintain more relationships over time with a lot less effort than before."

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COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE GOODNESS!

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Christine Khan) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:37:00 +0000

Clearing Clutter for Clarity and Prosperity! Many of us are embracing the notion of getting rid of what we don't want, to make room for what we do want, what we release, let others benefit from, for a great price!

Multifamily Garage Sale this Saturday, July 25 in Kingsbury Crossing in Copley OH on OAKMONT DRIVE!

Garage Sale will feature some items too big to move to the garage... in addition to many household items including:

Art, Entertainment and Books- Arts and Crafts Items, Business, Self Help, childrens books, vhs tapes, toys, etc.
Household- bedding, kitchen, bath items, electronics, etc.
Clothing- plus size womens, regular size mens and boy childrens under size 10 and girl childrens under size 4T.
Large Family Room Forrest Green Sleeper Sofa Sectional (indoors-- you haul)
Carved wood dining room table

Jobseekers bring a copy of their resume to leave for the day of the sale at 4317 Oakmont! OR register online and introduce yourself at the sale. Recruiters, New Companies, Hiring Managers can also bring your JOB LISTINGS or Help Wanted Hiring Ads or email them to dawn.mular@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com and we would be happy to help you staff them.. We have an incredible and growing base of talent locally and nationally.

Helping Friends Career Network founder, and Social Media Recruiting Expert, Dawn Mular, is participating in the sale. Dawn and HFCN will NOT be doing interviews during the sale, but come on out, get some deals, and leave a resume so we can be on the lookout for job opportunities for you as well! We are excited to offer optimism and opportunity, and for Dawn this is now MORE than a passion!

CONTACT: Dawn Mular - Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn

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