Other people contributing views, experience and resources include:

David Glass is the Founder and Principal of Ten Acres. He has a background in finance, technology and early-stage startups.

David Manaster is the CEO of ERE Media and the leading recruiting trade publisher.

Trudy Knoepke-Campbell  is the Director of Talent Acquisition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

Tod Martin is the CTO PartyGaming and brings technology and
international business perspective to the board.

John Sumser is the CEO of Two Color Hat and a long-time industry observer, publisher, futurist.  John has successfully mentored many start-ups in the recruiting space.

Craig Silverman has amassed substantial experience mergers & acquisitions, venture capital, public relations, recruiting, hiring, training, and motivating.

I’m not sure who else has accepted his invitation but the list of people Michael shared with me is impressive. So too are his plans for a new site: CloudRecruiting.net. All good stuff.

Michael and I have been exchanging notes on a variety of topics surrounding recruiting and emerging technologies since the Spring.  We finally shared some time in person at the recent SourceCon 2008 where Michael was undoubtedly the star of the show:

“At SourceCon 2008 Michael was among the top-rated speakers. His unique delivery of Sourcing Beyond Recruiting 2.0: The Emergence of Cloud Recruiting resonated with his audience on many levels. For professionals who live and die by understanding how to effectively leverage the latest technology to gain competitive advantage — Michael’s presentation was life-affirming.”

Stay posted. Michael and I will be hatching some plans in the next year or so including some joint ventures on the training front.

I will be joined by the session’s organizer Linda Barnette. Linda is a consultant with ProActive Training and Consulting.

Here are the details…

When:
Date: July 10, 2008
Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am
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Location:
ProActive Training and Consulting
701 Northpoint Parkway
Suite 110
West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Contact: Tim Tracy
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Member Price: $90.00
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Amitai offers a different take, predicting that early adopters of social media for recruiting will remain in the minority. Too few frontline recruiters will risk the perils of transparency in corporate environments that need to mitigate risk and innovation and apply bottom-line metrics instead. As the economics of recruiting come under closer scrutiny with a softening economy and an inability to quantify the ROI on social media, there will be a slowdown in the rate of adoption by recruiters.

As the competition in the Web 2.0 market intensifies Ami foresees a proliferation of new applications, platforms, widgets and whiz-bang technology along with increasing usability issues in existing social networks. What was once fun will turn into drudgery with multiple logins and communities of “friends” to manage — detracting from core recruiting activities.

Against this backdrop, Ami predicts a general backlash among the industry’s early adopters. They will increasingly default to using proven resources like online sourcing, direct recruiting and building their personal networks.

For the rest, the gap between those who “get it” and those who “don’t even know” will widen. The real opportunity that Ami sees for established vendors and service providers lies in helping close the gap as the front runners start to slow down and the early majority catches up.

Read The 2008 Recruiting Landscape: Five Recruiting Gurus’ 2008 Predictions and get the views from four other pundits: Shally Steckerl of JobMachine, Lou Adler of The Adler Group, CareerXroads’ Gerry Crispin and Jason Davis at RecruitingBlogs.com.