Posted November 27th, 2007 by shally
Back in early 2007 I was invited to present on a panel about blogging at the Kennedy conference in Las Vegas. I wanted to make it a very memorable event for attendees and to do that I asked for support from the recruitment blogging community.

Rather than providing only our personal perspectives we thought as panelists we (Dave Mendoza, Steve Levy, Gretchen Ledgard, Dennis Smith and I) could bring added value by expressing the thoughts and opinions of a few of our fellow bloggers. This way we are able to speak more as a community. I know we all have different approaches and reasons for blogging, but I believe that providing a snapshot of those would elevate our collective causes. Each of the panelists recruited a number of bloggers, and 23 of them responded to a brief survey.

Steve Levy took their answers to the following questions and assembled a slideshow that ran throughout the panel. Here are the questions:
  1. Why do you blog?
  2. What do you prefer to blog about?
  3. Where do you receive your inspiration from?
  4. Who do you write your blog for?
  5. How much blogging has impacted your business/company's recruiting brand?
  6. When do you find the time to blog?
As a result of this excercise we discovered that one of the challenges bloggers often face is maintaining their core inspiration, keeping their blog updated, and elevating their content value. Its a competition between their regular activities and 'contributing' new insight to their audience and the broader staffing community at large. The community's answers were inspiring and different, the spectrum of them was surprising. I hope that this post serves as a reminder to all of us to keep up this work even when sometimes we feel like we're just "talking upwind in a sandstorm."

Without further "ado" here is the show, which I made into an 8 minute flash movie on Google Video:


 

 

And now... roll credits... here is a list of the bloggers who contributed: