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I was following the tweets from the Social Recruiting Summit when I came across this profound tweet from @ewmonster:
Such amazing insight in less that 140 characters that I felt compelled to share it with you all. Oh and if you want to follow all the tweets from the Social Recruiting Summit you can follow the hashtag #SocialRecruiting.
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Step right up for this week’s Tuesday Tech Tips. I did a random grab of tech news from my Instapaper archive so I’m guessing I will please no one with these tips. I joke, I joke. Anyhoo, on with the tips.
Do you have an iPad and an iPhone or maybe 2 iPads or perhaps 4 iPhones? If yes, then Engadget has a review of the overachieving iPADock.
I know a bunch of you tried out the new Google Voice integration in Gmail. Now the good folks over at Google have written up some handy features of Google Voice in Gmail.
Calling all iPhone or iPod Touch runners!! There is a new Nike+ App that throws away the little Nike+ sensor and instead uses the accelerometer of your iOS device. Whats not to like about that?
With all the Tweetups going on all over the world, you are going to need a way to keep in video touch with all your new tweeps. Skype 5.0 Beta to the rescue with 10 way video calling.
I love me some full screen browser windows all the time. Google took that one step further and created Fullscreen mode in Google Reader. Life is pretty good now.
I know all you iPhone owners out there have been waiting for iOS 4.1 (especially iPhone 3G users waiting for the performance tweaks in iOS4 to make their iPhones usable again). Head on over to the TiPb blog for an iOS4 walkthrough.
I’m not sure what took so long but TiVo finally produced a remote with a built-in keyboard. Good grief TiVo, your product lifecycles are longer than even Microsoft’s. If you are not sure the new TiVo Slide Remote is for you, read the Engadget review here and the Zatz Not Funny review here.
The controversial new Twitter app for iPad built by Loren Brichter and his team (who developed the Tweetie app) is out. If you have an iPad you probably already have the new Twitter app but you might want to take a peek at the TUAW Blog review anyway.
And finally (he says while trying to keep from giggling in that nerdy sort of way)…who wouldn’t want an Atom-powered PC in “an exact replica” of the original beige Commodore C64 chassis. Christmas is just around the corner.
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I read the tweets coming from the Workday Technology Summit on August 23 and was surprised. A couple of the analysts seemed to suggest that Workday should stop talking about its SaaS Multi-Tenant technology approach and focus instead on the business value of the Workday application when they are talking to customers. While that might be good advice for Workday, I hope the analysts are not advising customers who are looking to purchase SaaS solutions to focus only on the functionality of the application and not worry about the technology. Potential customers should absolutely dig into all the nooks and crannies of a vendor’s technology.
Vendors are not to be trusted especially when it comes to HR data. If you are a customer thinking of using a SaaS vendor for HCM/TM applications (especially core HR) you had better make sure that the Vendor is using technology that is proven and fully supportable. Sometime after go-live when the SaaS application experiences an outage or data breach is not the time to discover the vendor’s servers are running Windows Server 2000 or the database is Oracle 8i or the “servers” are a rack of Psystar towers. You might get compensated for the downtime but at that point you probably have lost confidence in the vendor.
Customers need to fully understand the technology used to power the SaaS application. Purchasing HR applications/software should always be a joint venture between HR and IT. HR can focus on functionality and usability and IT can focus on technology and security.
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