Don Breckenridge - President Sendouts.com

Published on May 16, 2008 in Industry Executive, Interviews, Software, Technology, Tools and Video. 0 Comments

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Don Breckenridge - President Sendouts.com
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Donald E. Breckenridge Jr. is the co-founder and president of Sendouts, which develops and markets Sendouts Pro, the leading on-demand applicant tracking system for the recruitment industry. Under Breckenridge’s leadership and vision, Sendouts has grown into a profitable software company serving more than 850 recruitment firms internationally and more than 5,000 users.

Prior to Sendouts.com, Breckenridge founded Integratia, a firm specializing in database and Internet development and contract placement. With the rapid growth of Integratia, Breckenridge realized the need to a robust software system to facilitate the talent acquisition process to fulfill customer needs.

In recognizing this window of opportunity, Breckenridge raised over $4 million from private investors and venture capital firm Gryphon Investments LLLP to launch Sendouts.com. In this process, Breckenridge transitioned the resources and programmers from Integratia to Sendouts, which enabled rapid development of the Sendouts Pro application. Breckenridge has since dissolved Integratia in order to focus entirely on Sendouts.

Breckenridge holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration concentrating in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2003, Breckenridge was included in St. Louis Business Journal’s “30 under 30″ representing overachieving professionals under the age of 30.

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Geoff Peterson - Editor StaffBytes

Published on May 15, 2008 in Interviews, Recruiting, Technology, Tools and Video. 0 Comments
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Geoff Peterson is the managing principal and Sr. Recruiter at General Lead a virtual staffing and consulting services company as well as the editor or Staffbytes. He is very passionate about recruiting. After working on many unique and challenging assignments in the staffing field, he discovered there are literally countless ways to search, network with and hire top talent around the world. Upon discovering the power of blogs, he decided to develop StaffBytes to share information with recruiters, Internet sourcers, researchers and all others in the human resources and staffing industry as well as on RecruitingBlogs.com.

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Mark Bielecki - Principal J L Blake Executive Search

Published on May 13, 2008 in Interviews, Recruiting and Video. 0 Comments
Mark Bielecki - Principal J L Blake Executive Search
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Mark is the founder & President of JL Blake, Inc. located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. With more than 35 years experience as a controller, sales manager, and business owner, he has experienced the recruiting business from both sides of the table. Mark is a contributor to ERE Media and also blogs about recruiting at http://futureofrecruiting.blogspot.com.

He is passionate about professional recruiting and says “I believe the time has come for a revolution in the recruiting business. It’s time for us to become faster, more relevant & less expensive. We need to compete with Monster, CareerBuilder, and the Wall Street Journal - and we’ve developed a program that does just that at JL Blake.”

In 1996, he started JL Blake, Inc. with the goal of being the best recruiter in the industrial field. Over the last eleven years he feels he has learned how to do it right and how to do it wrong. He concentrates on doing it right and concentrates on his niche market in the Chicago / Rockford / Milwaukee area (the ChiRocKee Triangle).

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Aaron Strout - VP New Media Mzinga.com

Published on May 9, 2008 in Industry Executive, Interviews, Software, Technology and Video. 0 Comments
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In his role as Vice President of New Media at Mzinga, Aaron focuses on blogging, podcasting, webinars, blogger relations, and evangelizing the benefits of community. In addition to his knowledge of the interactive and new media landscape, Aaron has more than 15 years of online marketing and advertising experience, with a strong background in integrated and online marketing.

In his previous role, Aaron was Vice President of New Media at Shared Insights, one of Mzinga’s predecessor companies. Prior to this, Aaron worked at Fidelity Investments in its retail division, with a focus on online and acquisition marketing. Aaron’s work at Fidelity focused on Web strategy & implementation, as well as the development of marketing (online and offline) campaigns, including direct mail, e-mail, banner & print ads, and event marketing.

Aaron is an active contributor to the world of new media outside of his professional life. Alongside his personal blog, focused on the exploits of his beloved Boston sports teams (http://bigpapelbon.blogspot.com/), Aaron maintains a marketing-related blog at http://wearesmarter.org/aaron and is a founding member and former president of the Boston Interactive Media Association (BIMA). He is also a member and former board member of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX).

While at MITX, Aaron was responsible for a quarterly “Technology in Finance” breakfast that matched speakers from financial services, top analyst firms such as Forrester, and select technology providers. Aaron often moderated these panels and was responsible for working with a team to provide speakers, sponsors, and promotion of the events.

Aaron graduated with a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is an alumnus of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

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Mark Willaman - President, founder HRmarketer.com

Published on May 8, 2008 in Industry Executive, Interviews and Tools. 0 Comments
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Mark Willaman is founder and president of Fisher Vista, LLC, the owners of HRmarketer.com, HRmarketer Services Group, SeniorCareMarketer.com, SeniorCareMarketer Services Group and ShirleyBOARD.com. Mark has over fifteen years of proven success in the human resource and healthcare industries. In addition to being a pioneer in the use of web-based technologies for the delivery of employee benefits, Mark has a track record of conceptualizing and implementing innovative, creative and highly successful marketing and PR campaigns targeting HR decision makers.

Mark also has extensive expertise and experience in developing award winning web and SaaS applications including HRmarketer.com and most recently, ShirleyBOARD.com - an online community for caregivers. Mark received his BSBA in Marketing from the University of Denver where he was a three-year letterman in Lacrosse, and his MBA from Pennsylvania State University where he was an appointed member of the MBAA Honor Council for two consecutive years. Mark is also a published author and speaker on various marketing topics and a regular contributor to the HRmarketer Blog and SeniorCareMarketer Blog. In his spare time, Mark enjoys training for triathlons.

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Bill Martineau - Big Biller

Published on May 7, 2008 in Big Biller, Interviews, Recruiting and Video. 0 Comments
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Bill Martineau is the Vice President of Martineau Recruiting Technology and has previously been a Sr. Consultant with Dunhill Professional Search for 15 years.

During his time with Dunhill Bill finished among the leaders in sales within the Dunhill System, and was included in the top twenty in the nation from 1995 through 1999. In 1997 Bill was awarded membership into Dunhill’s Million-Dollar Club, recognizing excellence in performance and attainment of over a million dollars in career sales. Bill was ranked #7 nationally in the Dunhill system for 1998 and 1999.

Working a specialty in the Information Systems/Information Technology for the last 16 years Bill has gained industry knowledge by being an active member of the Association of Information Systems Professionals (AITP) for the last eight years, and most recently served as Treasurer of the Tarheel Chapter. Bill also is an active member of the North Carolina Association of Personnel Services (NCAPS)

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Thomas Power - Chairman, ecademy

Published on May 6, 2008 in Author, Industry Executive, Interviews, Software, Technology, Tools and Video. 0 Comments
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(Not only is Thomas Power an innovator of the 1st degree in social media but this Skype interview took place with Thomas in London and Bill in Dallas. The video could be better but the conversation is perfect)

Thomas Power along with Penny Power founded Ecademy 10 years ago. Thomas describes himself as a Matchmaker. Dealmaker. Networker. Chairman of Ecademy. Non-Executive Director of entrepreneurial start-ups. Ecademy was founded in February 1998 and is recognized as the oldest Social (Business) Network with over 350,000 unique users each month and built without venture capital.

He states that he and Penny Power have personally met 10,000 of their members traveling to 50 countries with their 3 children (Hannah, Ross & TJ) since 1998.

To quote Thomas “These meetings are one reason why Ecademy has such a solid foundation and is unaffected by new Social Network start-ups regardless of their size, scale or capital base. I recommend that all our members use Linkedin and Facebook every day also although I remain sceptical if Facebook is anything more than MSN 2.0.”

Ecademy is known as the Rolls-Royce of Business Networking the world over and in some ways still far in advance of Linkedin and Facebook. Thomas says Ecademy is about intimacy, privacy, trust, friendship and support in small groups across the world.

There are 500 Ecademy meetings a month around the world typically of around 5 to 20 people. Over 20,000 Ecademy face to face meetings have take place worldwide since 1998. Some 10,000 new members join each month entirely through word of mouth and 60% of their members are self employed with an average age of 45-54,

Ecademy is aiming for 10 million members by 2050 a huge challenge from the current 400,000 users they have right now. They are building slowly, gently and reliably making continuous small improvements each and every day much like Toyota with Lexus and Scion.

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Benjamin Yoskovitz - CEO Standout Jobs, Social Media Guru

Published on May 5, 2008 in Industry Executive, Interviews, Software, Technology and Video. 1 Comment
Benjamin Yoskovitz - CEO Standout Jobs, Social Media Guru
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(the audio has some echo problems but excellent comments by Ben)

Benjamin Yoskovitz is the CEO & co-Founder of Standout Jobs, a venture-backed startup founded in 2007. He is also a blogging and social media consultant that helps others take their blogging and Web marketing to the next level.

He has been an entrepreneur for 10+ years in the Web space, working extensively in web & software development. To quote him “I’m obsessed with creating things; fundamentally that’s what entrepreneurs do — they create “stuff. I’m also obsessed with customer service.”

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Dawn Mular - Helping Friends Career Network

Published on May 4, 2008 in Industry Executive and Interviews. 0 Comments
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Dawn says I am a recruiter by choice, matching Quality Employers, Recruiters, Job Seekers, and Business Professionals since 2001. Helping Friends Career Network provides highly regarded, contingency, recruiting and placement, executive search, and business networking referrals. We are a global business and open community network that creates profound opportunities, through caring, sharing, and helping on LinkedIn, Plaxo, Ning, Facebook, etc. We have jobs, business and recruiter networking resources based upon the logic of sharing ideas, supply, demand, and possibility.

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Dan Schawbel - Personal Branding / Social Media Specialist

Published on May 1, 2008 in Interviews, Technology, Tools and Video. 0 Comments
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Dan Schawbel is the leading expert on personal branding for the Generation-Y audience. He is also the first Social Media Specialist at EMC Corporation and has accumulated almost 7 years in marketing at the age of 24.

As a social media specialist for EMC2 Corporation, Dan is responsible for fostering internal collaboration, podcasting, social media press releases, wiki’s, forums, blogging, search engine optimization(SEO), as well as analytics and attaching social media elements to tradition forms of media.

Prior to this role, he focused on developing marketing collateral and plans for the launch of six new EMC solutions and services, leading a Six Sigma high performing team, and promoting the eServices and education services programs.

Dan received his B.S. in Marketing from the Bentley College in Waltham, MA, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He gained a strong foundation in all marketing disciplines with internships at Reebok, Lycos, LoJack, and TechTarget (to name a few). Also, he held 7 leadership positions in organizations such as the Bentley Marketing Association, the Bentley Entrepreneurship Society and as a Senator for the Student Government. With 8 internships throughout his years in school, he has proved to be a mentor and resource for current students.

He serves as the Brand Manager for the American Marketing Association’s Boston Chapter, is an active member in the Bentley College Alumni Network, a member of the Social Media Group and still finds time to be a big brother.

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