[Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

[William Pietri]

K. Peachey wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Daniel Phelps <dphelps at wikimedia.org>
> [...]
>> 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

The microblog seems like a pretty reasonable approach to me, really. At my
company we're doing a lot of internal documentation via blog and microblog
entries. Those platforms are very easy to update, keeping costs low.
Unlike wiki pages, they don't create an ongoing maintenance burden, or set
false expectations about the freshness of the content.

Don't get me wrong, I love wikis. But if the goal is to keep people
updated on the status of something, the tools built around status updates
are pretty swell.

Anyhow, I appreciate any and all steps the WMF takes toward greater
transparency.


William