Each day I, as well as everyone else on the planet, get a whole bunch of ”junk” email. Most of this is fairly harmless promotional stuff as all the enhancement drugs and Nigerian 401 scams have been filtered out by the time I get them. But in any case, each day, as part of my routine, I try to un-subscribe from a few of them, in the misguided hope that my “wanted:unwanted” email ratio will not continue to grow exponentially. However, as I have numerous email accounts (which I don’t believe is unusual these days) I forward all my accounts to gmail. Its convenient, includes powerful spam filtering, can be accessed from anywhere, and of course is free.
The problem (and the rant) comes when :
- I click on the unsubscribe link – and I’m forced to login in order to “change my preferences” – usually of course, details are long forgotten, thus initiating a painful “forgotten password” – wait for email – login – change preferences sequence. Not only is this a waste of my time, it also annoys the hell out of me and makes me hate the organisation I am unsubscribing from even more!
- or.. I receive an email with an unsubscribe link. Yet, when I click on it I am forced to add my email address. Or it simply creates an email back to the remove@ email address. However, if like me, your various email addresses end up in the same place, you have no idea which one the offending item was sent to in the first place! OK, check the “To” field. Nope, often this is a generic email that means I was simply BCC’d into a bunch of old junk email. No way to unsubscribe. Surely every email system these days uses a unique ID to identify me in their list, so that a simple click can remove me!? – Apparently not.
It should be compulsory for every “marketing” email to include a single click unsubscribe.
It seems that LinkedIn has set it sights on Global Domination. At least in terms of “recruiting”. With 120 million members, its already a pretty big database, and yet LinkedIn is setting its sights big! They are aiming to have the GLOBAL workforce as their membership and to make the resume the business card and the Rolodex obsolete. They’ve been increasingly realising that recruitment is the killer app!
Watch this to see how serious they are
Keynote – LinkedIn Talent Connect – Oct 2011
What does this mean for the recruiting world? OK, its “only a database” and OK, there is no human interaction, but it has massive implications for the recruitment industry.
I’ve been looking for systems that will allow candidates to keep track of jobs that they’ve applied for. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Mike
Finally I have my Google+ account, (along with everyone else) and the key question is how will this help with recruitment and careers… I’ll be researching this over the next few weeks so check back, but in the meantime let me know of any interesting ways that you’ve found to use it to further your career or find those elusive candidates!
Also, while I’m on Google I just read this about Google’s Wallet – watch out paypal!
http://www.internetpronews.com/2011/09/20/google-wallet-your-new-age-payment-system/
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An interesting piece by Naseem Javed published on PharmiWeb.com
Esther Dyson the Great Dame of Silicon Valley, at times matriarch to Bill Gates and many other lads on the innovative circuit, wrote a harsh column August 26th on GPS CNN on ICANN gTLD. I like and respect Esther especially her technical background, we have shared the podium, but as this topic deals with the centrality of global corporate nomenclature it demands an authoritative analysis and I feel it’s my responsibility to clarify and taken the liberty to address her entire piece item by item.
http://www.pharmiweb.com/Features/feature.asp?ROW_ID=1363
Google has reportedly reached a $500m “agreement” with US prosecutors for accepting Adwords adverts from companies selling unlicensed drugs into the USA from Canada.
Canadian companies are not allowed to sell unlicensed drugs into the US, but even though Google were (apparently) aware, they continued to run adwords adverts doing exactly that.
