Twitter and Identi.ca (microblogging systems) are faster alternatives to the usual blog post, and they spread the word in an effective way (followers can retweet if it is interesting). Today, with the information flooding that we suffer, micromessages system and alerts are the only way we can filter what we like.
And, of course, you have the Job openings wikipage.[1]
I think that it is a good idea.
Regards, emijrp
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings
2010/9/3 K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Daniel Phelps dphelps@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Recently we've been having some internal conversations regarding
transparency for our hiring, recruiting and contracting. In efforts to be more proactive about sharing this information we're moving to a system of tweeting short bursts of announcements. This will be done in a "bot" style voice not unlike the WMF tech feeds. The idea is that we'll get the information out on new hires and new contractors and consultants working with us along with new job openings etc. Basically the streams will recap the comings and goings in a short and sweet format.
I invite you all to see these data streams -
http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork/all or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork. Eventually we also hope to find more ways to use this feed for recruiting and reaching out to a larger candidate pool and audience. There will also be times where we link the streams or feeds to longer and more detailed blog postings.
-Daniel
So you know, all the times people asked to have better systems to inform of new hirings such as on wiki pages but get told it would take too long to update them, you decide to implement a even more stupid and time consuming system in which limited information can be sent out. -Peachey
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