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Loving this podcast series from brainfooder
Doeke Geertsma, where the interview is all the person behind the image. It’s only week 2 and I’m already totally into it. This week it is brainfooder
Kobi Ampoma telling his unique story -
fascinating listen.
Issue #420 published 27 Oct 2024
Real pleasure for me to join brainfooder
Thomas Kohler on his outstanding show, The People Factor Podcast. We end up talking mainly about audience and community building, so if anyone is interested in learning more about that, this is a
good episode on the topic.
Issue #413 published 8 Sep 2024
Me again, in Part 2 of a great conversation I had with Dr John Mitchell. We talk GAI, remote work, future of work - and quite a bit of audience building, content and community.
Have a listen
Issue #364 published 1 Oct 2023
John Mitchell might have the second most melodious voice in recruitment (first is brainfooder Marcus Edwardes), so I enjoyed listening to his questions more than my answers in
this podcast about brainfood, audience building, world of work and the rest.
Issue #363 published 24 Sep 2023
Enjoying this era of Chad and Cheese, I think having our two favourite sh1ttalkers on different continents is a fundamentally a good idea. Some smart conversation on WFH, as well as the latest news on events and industry, from two guys who have their fingers on too many pulses.
Have a listen.
Issue #345 published 21 May 2023
Unleashed America by all accounts was a triumph last week. Congratulations to Marc Coleman and team for pulling it out. I wasn’t there, so have had to live vicariously through the reportage of two reprobates, brainfooders
Chad Sowash and
Joel Cheesman. Have a listen
here.
Issue #342 published 30 Apr 2023
Delighted to appear in this in this interview series with brainfooder
Perry Timms. 45 minute chat with a very smart fellow and one of the good guys in the business to boot. We mainly talk about this newsletter and the community around it, so get your brainfood origin story here. Available on
Spotify but the money was spent on second camera so you might as well watch the Youtube
here!
Issue #335 published 12 Mar 2023
This is the sort of hustle you want to see from the community. Brainfooders
Steve Jacobs and
Yasar Ahmad decided to do a video podcast and weeks later they are on Episode 3, complete with studio, high production value and quality guests like me! 🤣. Pleasure to speak with these two on topics outside the norm, have a watch and listen
here.
Issue #329 published 29 Jan 2023
I rarely promote (actually never!) my own podcast on here, but I am making an exception this week, as we had a really valuable conversation on the psychological impact on redundancy in our community. If this is you or someone you know,
give this a listen.
Issue #321 published 4 Dec 2022
Are you part of an industry online community? Trick question as if you’re reading this newsletter, I would consider you very much part of the brainfood community! However, I have never heard of this type of grouping referred to as a ‘
whisper network’ - and I kind of like the phrasing - they are places where high value information is shared in-group. We
should join and set up more of them.
Issue #310 published 18 Sep 2022
Being effective at asking for help is actually a professional skill worth developing. Jean Hsu with some
outstanding practical tips on to get more value from your colleagues and the communities you belong to. Plenty of us on the
brainfood online community and I think all of us could do with reading this post.
PS: feel free to join the community btw, free for all members of the newsletter
Issue #297 published 19 Jun 2022
If community is the new marketing, I’m guessing that we are going to see more of this type of role - a person who was an ex-practitioner who is now recruited into a communications role with the community they were once a part of. Developers started it first, with the role of Developer Advocate and here is a
great breakdown on how to hire for one.
Issue #284 published 20 Mar 2022
I’m really pleased somebody got Mercedes Johnson’s side of the story out and I’m really glad that person was
Laurie Ruettimann. I was critical of the industry over reaction to
Mercedes tweet and important that someone like Laurie created to the space for another perspective to heard. We need more of
this.
Issue #280 published 20 Feb 2022
Some amazing findings already one week into the release of this survey request. 800 or so of you have completed this already, so if you have not yet contributed, pleased take a moment and do it
today before your week starts - you get aggregated results upon submission - and it will be massive value for everyone if we better understood how we recruiters evaluate job opportunities, for recruiters.
Issue #264 published 31 Oct 2021
Delighted to back for Season 2 for this outstanding podcast with brainfooders
Serge Boudreau and
Shelley Billinghurst. I guess I’m basically talking about brainfood, so if you’re not tired of this yet, have a listen
here.
Issue #257 published 12 Sep 2021
Interesting post introducing community building concepts, which we as recruiters & HR are likely to need to know more about. Have digest on this - main points: identity required for tribe formation, and
exclusion is key tribal coherence. Brainfood for sure and definitely worth a
read.
Issue #215 published 23 Nov 2020
If you’re a member of any online community (feel free to
join brainfoods btw - open to all subscribers), you might be familiar with this phenomena - people asking
bad questions. Simple post how to ask better ones - essential if you want to get better responses.
Issue #207 published 27 Sep 2020
Excellent thinking by Ben Evans on the ‘what’s missing’ from the online event; the hallway talk, the random meetings, the sheer density of participants - and the focused commitment of people who have took time out, paid for flights, booked a hotel. Online events are obviously here to stay, but in-person will surely make a comeback too is the verdict in this super
interesting read. H/T brainfooder
Irina Shamaeva for the share in the
fb group
Issue #193 published 21 Jun 2020
Have we hit peak virtual event yet? Simon Owens combos some smart speculation with sound logic what the next phase for this new sector might look like, especially when barriers are so low. Have a read
here
Issue #192 published 14 Jun 2020
Salesforce, Indeed.com, LinkedIn, Facebook, Slack, Google, Amazon, Space X, Tesla and many more besides are here - click on the
Brainfooder Employer Treemap for the interactive and Stephen’s medium post for the
analysis.
Issue #80 published 23 Apr 2020
Are you still using LinkedIn groups? They had the opportunity to become Slack before Slack really but were ruined by cross posting, spammers and lack of engagement.
Irina Shamaeva thinks their
latest changes will kill them off for good. What do you think?
Issue #98 published 23 Apr 2020
What does it mean to be a HR influencer?
Lars Schmidt - who certainly is one - writes with characteristic humility on what he does, how he does it and what other people should look out for when presented with expertise.
Issue #99 published 23 Apr 2020
Where do the brainfooder’s live?
Everywhere is the answer provided by Cousin
Stephen Li in this superb interactive map of the city locations of the global brainfooder community. Check out the interactive map
here (have a play on the filters at the bottom) and the medium post for insight
here.
Issue #87 published 23 Apr 2020
Has the Internet got too big?
Robert Gaal thinks so, as he restates the case for the
Dunbar number in this
smart post about community and the return to smaller, intimate and focused online groups. Speaking of which rb on fb is here -
sign up if you want in depth discussion on recruiting related topics. H/T
Bas van de Haterd for the share
Issue #135 published 23 Apr 2020
Cousin
Stephen Li is back with more superb data visualisations on the brainfooder community. See how your country / industry category fares on the gender glass ceiling with this
interactive tool and review Stephen’s analysis
here.
Issue #83 published 23 Apr 2020
Cousin
Stephen Li is back with more insight on the brainfooder community. This week it’s gender distribution, across countries and job categories within those countries - it’s fascinating stuff. Check out the blog post
here and explore the interactive tableau
here.
Issue #82 published 23 Apr 2020
Richard Millington has been at the forefront of the thinking and practice of online community building. He’s written an online guide on how to calculate the ROI of building / growing one. It’s a
superb resource folks.
Issue #84 published 23 Apr 2020
A lot of brainfood content is first shared by you in the
RB FB private group. 1800+ (around 10% of the subscriber pop) are in the group, which you are all welcome to join. Just please fully answer the questions. Apply
here
Issue #168 published 23 Apr 2020
Here it is folks - pretty much the
definitive list of must attend for us brainfooders in 2020. Crowdsourced from the community, there are nearly 100 events already confirmed for you to review and make plans for. Your event not on the big list? Add it to the bottom of the list
here
2020, Worldwide
Issue #168 published 23 Apr 2020
Berlin TA Labs is one of the best communities on in-house recruiter talent I know.
Matthias Schmeißer is stepping back from leading / managing it, and this is his retro - it’s a great read on event and talent community building. Have a read
here, and follow Matthias
here.
Issue #127 published 23 Apr 2020