Evernote, Prezi, SugarSync, Google Wave: Productivity Tools in John Sumser's Cloud

"At the Social Recruiting Summit, I used a new presentation tool. The design of Prezi forces you to tell a story, rather than speak to a series of PowerPoint slides." John Sumser

John Sumser

Welcome to an Inside Recruiting channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting, and welcome back for our third installment of my conversation with John Sumser, the founder of Two Color Hat -- John's company provides product analysis, market segmentation, positioning, strategy and branding guidance for the Recruiting Industry and Human Resources Field.

In our final installment, John describes three new productivity tools he's been using.. Evernote, Prezi, and SugarSync. "These are all examples of what cloud computing looks like when it gets to you."

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More about John Sumser

John understands the inner workings of employment and recruiting. He is able to see and articulate how and why people work.

This is partly because John has worked a lot of jobs—from selling doughnuts door-to door, digging ditches and building railroads to corporate executive, director, editor, and CEO. He knows that making the right hiring decision requires both breadth and precision, and that finding the right person for the right job is a process that must adapt to an ever-changing marketplace. The foundation of John’s interest in recruiting was how to use developing technology to find candidates that were inaccessible before. John was on the cutting edge of how the internet and technology affect work and recruiting. He became interested in the internet in its embryonic stages when it was known as the Well. His conversations with folks in the San Francisco Bay Area developed into a position as Executive Director of the Point Foundation and publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, where he met and worked with many of the founders of Silicon Valley.

In 1995, John started his own company, Interbiznet, where he wrote a daily column on using the internet and technology for employment recruiting as well as a survey of global employment news and trends. His ideas have been the catalyst for dozens of new companies and countless MBA student papers. In 2007, John sold Interbiznet.

John regularly consults with recruiters and employers on how to find, hire and keep the best employees, how people work, how companies and systems affect employees and how changing economies and technology alter the nature of work itself. One of John’s current areas of interest is how the cultural differences between the generations are changing the workplace. He introduced this idea last year to the top 500 employers in Canada where Al Gore was the warm-up act (although Mr. Gore might call it the key-note speech).

John continues to explore the importance of culture and communications through new technologies and forums like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and blogging, all of which allow us to meet and connect with people we might not have found in another era, and perhaps say things we would never say in person.

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