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Web 3.0 and Online Jobs: Synthesis

Posted on Friday, Jun 22nd

Jobs is one of the top segments online and contribute 25% of Internet ad revenues. Job sites like CareerBuilder, Monster, and Yahoo! HotJobs are fast replacing newspaper classifieds and becoming hot destinations for job seekers and recruiters. We have been reviewing the online job industry and have covered CareerBuilder, Monster, and Yahoo! HotJobs from a

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Web 3.0 and Yahoo! HotJobs

Posted on Monday, Jun 18th

We have already discussed an overview of the online job industry and have reviewed CareerBuilder and Monster. Here, we take a look at Yahoo! HotJobs’ from the Web 3.0 perspective. HotJobs, originally, a job search engine, was founded in 1996. Yahoo! acquired HotJobs in 2002. Yahoo! The site has 20 million registered users and contains

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Web 3.0 and CareerBuilder

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 13th

CareerBuilder founded in 1995, is owned by Gannett, Tribune, and McClatchy. It is a job site where users can search or post jobs and resumes, gather information about companies and seek career related advice from experts. The site has 400 million monthly page views and over 21 million monthly unique visitors. The site averages more

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Role Model Interviews

Posted on Sunday, Jun 10th

Over the last few months, I have done a series of interviews with leaders – CEOs, Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Technologists, Academics, and Social Entrepreneurs – which offer insights to young and old alike about key choices – in business, in career, in life. * Jerry Rawls, CoFounder & CEO of Finisar * Philippe Courtot, Founder and

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Web 3.0 and Jobs: Overview

Posted on Thursday, Jun 7th

Jobs is one of the top online segments in the US with $5.9 billion online advertising revenues, which constitutes around 25% of Internet ad revenues in the US. The online job market has been steadily taking away market share from newspaper classifieds. In this series, we will evaluate the online jobs category against the Web

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 14)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 4th

Maggie and I finish our discussion of McClathcy newspapers, and then she provides words of wisdom for aspiring CEO’s and young entreperneurs. SM: McClatchy has definitely seen a drop in advertising on the print side. MW: There has been a drop in revenue, and it has been publicly reported, especially in some of the vertical

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Mar 23rd

Here we trace some of Maggie’s early career steps, most notably her entrance into software and cable service industries when they were both in their infancy. What were some of your early career steps? Would you walk through them quickly and then come to McCaw Cellular? MW: When I graduated form college I got married

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Mar 22nd

Maggie Wilderotter is the current CEO of Citizen Communications (CZN). Citizen is an industry leader in rural telecommunication services with 2006 revenues of $2B. It offers ILEC services under the Frontier name in the United States. I was introduced to Maggie as one of the most impressive women executives. [Bio] SM: Let’s start with your

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