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"We're currently working with a dozen different clients, all web application (re)designs. All of these clients have data rich applications and need equally rich data visualizations to help their end customers analyze data quickly and effectively.
What makes my job really interesting is that these clients are in different industries and are using different technologies. So we have pulled together a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight."
In short, there’s a LOT happening on Twitter in terms of job searching and recruiting. This probably accelerate because these are tough economic times. There are surely more jobs being sought, than offered. But there clearly are some jobs out there and you can find them pretty easily on Twitter.
This is no surprise to Sodexo, the North American leader in managing food services and facilities. If you ever experienced the cuisine in a hospital, senior citizen center, college, medical or military facility, then you have probably eaten one of the 10 million meals they serve each day at 6000 locations in the Canada, the US and Mexico.
Sodexo, employs 120,000 people, but the big news is the company is in hire mode. In addition to plans to hire 1800 recent college grads, the company intends to add on over 5000 managers, professionals, and executives this year. These include General Managers, Chefs, Facilities Engineers, Environmental Services Managers, Dietitians, District Managers, vice presidents, and roles in Finance, HR, IS&T, Communications, Supply Management and more.
And despite these troubled times, their business is growing and they are hiring. What brings it to this blog is that Sodexo, a company that has been named as one of the best places to work, is using Twitter as an executive recruiting tool.
"In one of the craziest proclamations I've ever read, the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has banned judges from 'friending' lawyers on social-networking sites. The reason? It 'reasonably conveys to others the impression that these lawyer 'friends' are in a special position to influence the judge.'
Ashby Jones, of the The Wall Street Journal's Legal Blog, raises the obvious point: When he first signed up for Facebook, back in the fall of 2007, 'friending' someone was akin to confirming a pre-existing friendship--an act that would justify the Committee's opinion. But since then, he writes, 'it's taken on a different meaning. I've friended friends, friends of friends, acquaintances, work colleagues, people who claim to know me, people from my past I barely remember, and people who probably requested my 'friendship' completely by mistake or through some sort of elaborate spam ruse that I'm not smart enough to figure out.' In other words, modern-day 'friending' rarely connotes actual friendship, especially on more professional social networks, such as LinkedIn and Twitter. (Several Committee members shared this belief, but were overruled.)"
"While there is no organized Orthodox Jewish anarchist movement, various anarchistic ideas are common in the works of many Kabbalists and Hasidic teachers. Since the antiquity, some Jewish mystical groups were based on anti-authoritarian or radically communal principles, somewhat similar to the Christian Quakers, Dukhobors and other similar movements. Some secular Jewish anarchists, such as Abba Gordin and Erich Fromm, had noticed remarkable similarity between anarchism and many Kabbalistic ideas, especially in their Hasidic interpretation. Martin Buber, a deeply religious philosopher, although not an Orthodox Jew, had frequently referred to the Hasidic tradition.
Some Jewish anarchists of the 20th century had explicitly combined contemporary radical thought with traditional Judaism, insisting, that Judaism calls for abolishment of the state, private property and class exploitation. These Orthodox Jewish anarchists observed the Halacha and had almost nothing in common with lifestyle anarchism, but they advocated the social system of communist anarchism or anarcho-syndicalism."
