One Louder
Exploring the fine line between clever and stupid. Heather Hamilton is a Staffing Manager and Microsoft Employee Evangelist.
Getting feedback and liking it
Signs that you are growing up...buying your first home, deciding that you like your friends better...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/28/2005
Email management and lightening speed
I've learned a new job skill. I may have had it before but it was dormant until I tool on such an...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/27/2005
Trailing partners
In the Staffing space, this is the term we use to describe a spouse or partner of a Microsoft newly...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/27/2005
On my mind...
I've been firing on all cylinders lately. Office move + fiscal year end + lots of nice weather...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/22/2005
Article: How to use your blog as a networking tool
Here. Good info. Via the Social Networking Weblog
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/21/2005
Marketing in Virtual Earth
OK, you know I'm not much of a "rah! rah!" person, but you may have seen some of the work being done...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/21/2005
Marketing positions in Virtual Earth
Technical Evangelist Location, location, location. 70% of all content on the Internet can be...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/21/2005
What's the frequency, um, Kenneth?
Last night, I pulled into my driveway and pressed my garage door clicker...nothing. Clicked again,...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/21/2005
Still doubting that blogs get people hired?
Then check out what Ernie has to say here. I met Ernie through his blog and he met Jeff via Jeff's...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/21/2005
Something new and it's very networky
Those darn people at Jobster are winning me over. I've been speaking with them for some time, but...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/16/2005
Employment gaps...what to do
We've talked a bit about making a career change. A reader contacted me to ask for resume advice and...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/14/2005
Moving offices again...yes, again!
OK, don't laugh. I actually asked for it this time. For those of you that asked if we move offices...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/13/2005
Inside "marketing at Microsoft"
Article here. I've been here for six years and have seen some big changes in how we "do marketing"....
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/13/2005
A little community participation on the job changing topic
Got an e-mail from one of my blog readers, let's call her M. She was one of the folks I had an...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/08/2005
Podcast coming...topic: recruitment blogging
OMG....is it possible that recruitment blogging is actually a thing...or even a thang? Uh huh, sure...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/08/2005
Peter Weddle's Advice for Staffing Bloggers
Here. OK, so it's a little self-serving. I just met Peter in Las Vegas after speaking on community...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/07/2005
Top Ten Reasons to Blog, According to Sun's Tim Bray
Here. "Uh, why is the mainstream press so incredibly interested in this people-fired-for-blogging...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/06/2005
Market looks promising for new college grads
NPR All Things Considered segment: College Graduates Welcomed by Job Market Back when I graduated...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/06/2005
I don't want to be a dream squasher
This is the hard part of my job. I have to, very often, tell people what they don't want to hear....
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/06/2005
Finding Dave...
Sending good thoughts (and hopefully blogger eyeballs...any readers in Vancouver area?) to Dave Koch...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/03/2005
The dreaded “reply all”
I love Outlook…I really do. I cannot imagine what it would be like to do my job without it. I’ve...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/02/2005
Welcome WITI Members
I understand my blog address was forwarded to a user group in WITI (Women in Technology...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/02/2005
Quoted in the Wall Street Journal
Dang, I forgot to blog this...or maybe I was subconsciously trying to keep the ego in check (I can't...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/01/2005
Don't be sorry...really, it's OK
Almost every e-mail that I get via my blog contains an apology or an acknowledgment that I must...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 06/01/2005
CNET News.com: (quote) Microsoft Millionaires Come of Age (quote)
Here. Interesting how many of these folks were in marketing...hmmmm. I met Rich at his book launch...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/31/2005
Sunny, 85 degrees and absolutely blogless
Meaning that I am not logging on to my computer this weekend (which starts, for me, in a couple...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/26/2005
My personal campaign...or pick an ethos, any ethos.
Every so often, I start a new personal campaign at work. It's not intentional and it usually has to...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/24/2005
Relief
There is some relief in the fact that I am not the only person that found this very, very...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/24/2005
Blogger identifies his murderer
If this is true, it's very scary. via DarrenBarefoot.
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/23/2005
Synergy
So proud of Chicago for getting the superfluous bun sitch under control.
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/20/2005
Our marketing hiring needs...right now
On a weekly basis, my team goes through the newly opened marketing and finance positions at...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/20/2005
Good weekend to stay home
Because of this (it's happening everywhere) and because this is happening here. Oh yeah, and because...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/20/2005
Whirlyball today
Today, our extended team had lunch and played whirlyball. It was great fun and I highly recommend...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/19/2005
InformationWeek article on who owns the content on professional bloggers' sites
Here. Mentions me (and something I must have posted about college) and Scoble. Funny what you find...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/17/2005
Funny superbean blog
OK, I generally hate product blogs, but this is more of a viral website for Heinz Beans...the...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/17/2005
Corporate Anthems...Apple is baking fruit
Via MetaFilter, ZDNet UK houses some (unintentionally ?) hilarious corporate anthems and from what I...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/17/2005
Blog links and gender
Interesting discussion on the impact of a blogger's gender on the links he/she attracts. I've added...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/17/2005
Enough about "passive candidates" already!
Howard Adamsky gets it right about so-called "passive candidates". I've been similarly frustrated...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/16/2005
Blogging as cost-cutting measure?
I'm not sure that's a good idea. From Silicon Valley Watcher, via Neville Hobson, IBM is encouraging...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/16/2005
Is blogging your full-time job?
So I just got off the phone with a reporter and we were discussing blogging (I know, shocking!) and...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/16/2005
Because when you are too lazy to read the blogs...
it's fun to have CNN recite them to you. Yes, the traditional media has inserted themselves in the...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/16/2005
Steve Ballmer speech at Stanford GSB
Steve spoke yesterday to a group of about 1,000 MBA students at Stanford. Aside from the...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/13/2005
Mystery solved...now who pays for the brand damage?
via Dave Barry...gross. Now that they have evidence of this, exactly what kind of payment should...
Author: HeatherLeigh Date: 05/13/2005