Everybody's doing it...

Here is a list of companies that are blogging. Wish I could take credit for the compilation, but I found it here.

Fortune 500 Companies that blog

GM Sun Microsystems Microsoft Google Yahoo! Boeing CitiGroup IBM HP Time Warner Dell, Inc. Lockheed Wells Fargo Intel Delphi Merril Lynch Disney (hugely, internally) Motorola FedEx Mitsubishi

Cisco Raytheon Haliburton Kimberly-Clark UAL Delta Winn-Dixie MBNA Toys R Us Nike Pepsi Texas Instruments Oracle Avon Apple Computer Shell McGraw-Hill Radio Shack Starbucks New York Times

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I want my Dig' TV!!!!

Just a quick note to any and all interested! I am adding a nifty little bonus to all who join my mailing list. Starting today, all who subscribe to my e-list get a copy of what I call Dig' TV, which is a video of my demonstrating how to use Yahoo to source resumes. Curious? Of course you are! (Well, I at least hope you are - wink.)

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The Forgotten Children of Search

When you think of an internet address, you think blah, blah, blah… dot com. Am I right? Maybe you would think dot net (i.e. whatever.net) or even dot org if it is a non-profit organization? However, how many of you would consider (what I call) the forgotten children of search? To be more specific, I am speaking about the less-popular internet domains. For example, websites that end in .CC, .BIZ, .INFO and so on. I rarely hear of a website being advertised that ended in something other than .com, .net or .org, but there are many websites that do. And guess what? Said websites have information (namely resumes) you can use in your sourcing efforts.

Click the links below to see examples of what I mean.

• site:ws resume "computer science"
• site:cc resume java sql
• site:name resume engineer

Pretty interesting huh? The resumes found on these URL extensions are just as valid as resumes you find on the dot com extensions, maybe even better. Why? If for no other reason, they are being ignored by the majority of researchers out there. (Well, at least prior to my writing this blog post – wink.)

Here are a list of additional domain extensions you may want to consider targeting when sourcing candidates.

.cc .biz .info .name .us .ws

Happy hunting!

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How To Make Every Search Ladies Night

A certain Harvard professor unleashed a tidal wave of flack when he suggested (in so many words) that innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Wow! I think in retrospect, he may have thought about his statement, slapped himself on the head and gave a Homer Simpson’ “D’oh!” sound. (Click here to see for yourself)

As much as I disagreed with so asinine a suggestion, it made me wonder how many women actually are in the IT profession. So, I decided to do my own non-scientific survey.

~women computer.science inanchor:resume

I got back 10,400 results. (For those unfamiliar with the "~" command, check out one of my earlier posts - "Kooky Google Trick #1") Hmm… Interesting, but not an overwhelming number, especially when I remove ~women from the equation. (176,000 results comeback... ummm... more or less, but that's a different story)

Not that this is scientific or anything, but I think it does reflect that IT is a male-dominated area. Okay, now I am even more curious and a question comes to mind. If I wanted to hunt female geeks specifically, how would I go about it? Hmmm… I know! I will find high-profile women in technology and find out what associations they belong to. So I do it and discover several, among them: SWE, WITI and AWC. (Curious? Look them up.) While I am doing this, I notice that a certain name keeps popping up: Grace Hopper. Grace Hopper was a pioneer computer scientist and a revered role model for women in technology. There are programs held in her honor all over the country and scholarships in her name. Hmmm… I wonder.

~cv grace=hopper software=engineer

This brought back 172 results. Were they all resumes? No, but quite a few were and guess what? All the resumes cited scholarships, programs or conferences that were in honor of Grace Hopper. So what does this teach us? Finding women in computer science is tricky in a male-dominated field. Also, we have learned that I am prone to tangents that are not always significant, but hopefully helpful in improving your digability.

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And just for subscribing (now) to my Digability Announcement Mailing List and I will send you:. *A list of Yahoo's Secret Search Commands to help you get the most out of your Yahoo searches.

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A big list of blog searchengines

Name: 2RSS URL: http://www.2rss.com Name: Bligz URL: http://www.blizg.com Name: Blogarama URL: http://www.blogarama.com Name: Blogdex URL: http://www.blogdex.net Name: Blogdigger URL: http://www.blogdigger.com Name: Bloghop URL: http://www.bloghop.com/ Name: Bloglines URL: http://www.bloglines.com **HIGHLY Recommended Name: Blogmatrix URL: http://www.blogmatrix.com Name: Blogrunner URL: http://www.blogrunner.com Name: Blogsearchengine URL: http://www.blogsearchengine.com Name: Blogstreet URL: http://www.blogstreet.com Name: Blogtastic URL: http://www.blogstreet.com Name: Blogvision URL: http://www.blogvision.com Name: Blogwise URL: http://www.blogwise.com Name: Bloogz URL: http://www.bloogz.com Name: Boogieplay URL: http://www.boogieplay.com Name: Daypop URL: http://www.daypop.com **Recommended

Name: Eatonweb URL: http://portal.eatonweb.com Name: Fastbuzz URL: http://www.fastbuzz.com Name: Feedster URL: http://www.feedster.com **HIGHLY Recommended Name: Get Linked URL: http://fried-spaghetti.com Name: Globeofblogs URL: http://www.globeofblogs.com Name: Icerocket URL: http://www.licerocket.com **HIGHLY Recommended NEW! Name: Memigo URL: http://www.memigo.com Name: Pepys URL: http://pepys.akacooties.com Name: Popdex URL: http://www.popdex.com Name: Read A Blog URL: http://www.readablog.com Name: Search4Blogs URL: http://www.search4blogs.com Name: Search4RSS URL: http://www.search4rss.com Name: Sindic8 URL: http://www.syndic8.com Name: Technorati URL: http://www.technorati.com **HIGHLY Recommended Name: Waypath URL: http://www.waypath.com NEW! Name: Zopto URL: http://www.zopto.com

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