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Wednesday, LatPro held its first video conference! We used ooVoo.com's video conferencing application to hold our fourth quarter planning meeting (usually held on site in Fort Lauderdale, Florida).  It was a grand success and a great relief for those used to traveling to Florida, not to mention a significant cost reduction for the company! You will see in the screenshot below that my PC would not do the 3-D effect that you can see on the ooVoo homepage (but still might with a little tweak). Here's what it looked like:

So

I see the effects of this slow-down everywhere.   Recession talk, recession thinking and recession actions... it's driving a lot of change.

Having been through one of these before, it's important to remember a few things:

InternetRecruiting.US is a new place to promote your USA job board, ATS or related company - free to join and you are encouraged to post your press releases! Just make sure to use your company logo and not your picture.

Yes, it is another ning website.  Can it work like a directory for the Internet recruiting industry? I am sure that it can. And, it has the benefit of being more interactive than the typical directory.

Give it a whirl and let me know what you think!

"I CAN'T FAIL. I CAN'T GO BACK TO WORKING IN..." says the job board entrepreneur I talked to yesterday.

This determination reminded me strongly of my own attitude 11 years ago. I quit two jobs in a row after working in them only six months each. I told everyone I knew that I was starting a business and assumed that I was unemployable after that. I felt like failure was not an option.

It isn't often in the Internet recruiting and job board news pond that I see something really special. But today, I just listened to something brilliant. Chris Russell founder of JobBoarders.com published a podcast titled Job-search Roundup...  honestly, I expected to listen to a minute of it just to see what he was up to.

Internet Brands Inc. (NASDAQ:INET) based in Los Angeles, California recently announced its expansion into careers with the acquisition of 10 niche career sites with an emphasis on community and social networking. The company's consumer Internet division now operates in five verticals, including auto, careers, home, shopping, and travel and leisure.

The company seems to have a well-thought-out strategy of focusing on employment niches that 

We just launched TopRecruitingBlogs.com which aggregates the top established recruiting blogs making it easy for you to see what's happening in recruitment at a glance. If you are a recruiting blogger, it's also a nice tool for understanding blogging techniques and practices.

1. Offer unique value

Choose a niche that is poorly served that you can dominate very quickly.  Bells and whistles do not qualify on their own unless you are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars at a very minimum. 

2.  The right domain

Does it contain your keywords? Is it short, easy to pronounce, spell and remember? The right domain puts the wind at your back where you want it.

3.  Create more value than you capture

What do you struggle the most with?  Let me know here in the comments and I will try to answer if I can be helpful or commiserate with you.

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