I love finding talent in many different ways. Here’s another web tool I found last week and been playing with. Userrnamecheck is interesting in that it goes through many common social sites and searches for a particular handle or username. I like it because through this I can do a lot of research quickly and easy on someone I’m targeting, or better yet find more information or other talent – coworkers/friends/or a forum board to links they and similar others maybe active on 😉
This might be most similar to an internet site such as Spokeo. There is another online web tool that comes to my mind also that searches boards, conversations, and forums. Cocomment searches for and tracks comments or postings within websites and forums. I first found out about Cocomment last year at the Techcrunch 9 August Capital party where I met the owner and found out he is an avid motorcyclist too 😉
[Note: I noticed while Usernamecheck isn’t perfect all the time, it has on several occasions for me thus far uncovered good free competitive intelligence to information on talent. An example of how I used it last week would be that I was curious about discovering more information on Gov. Sarah Palin so I typed in gov.sarah (and possible alternatives such as sarah.gov or gov.palin and more) into the username field box at the top. I then searched and saw what results and possible common social sites she may have an account or presence on. So…a common handle I usually use is people’s first part of a person’s email as usually most people keep their same patterns or shorten versions of it. The “handle” I mentioned could also be as a blog, website or something they go by like researchgoddess, recruitinganimal, or idonato.]
Hope this may help give you additional insight into talent and/or lead you to discovering others!
All The Best!
On a side note I will be at a luncheon from Noon-1:30pm at Birk’s restaurant in Santa Clara on Wednesday, October 8th to learn and see more about JobFox. JobFox is hosting this FREE luncheon! To learn more about JobFox and grab a possible free lunch on them at Farallon, Birk’s or Zibibbo next week in the bay area please e-mail dweiss@jobfox.com for more information/reserve a free seat!
Dan Harris SourcingTalent 
Checking out Usernames! People-Finding and Research
September 28, 2008I love finding talent in many different ways. Here’s another web tool I found last week and been playing with. Userrnamecheck is interesting in that it goes through many common social sites and searches for a particular handle or username. I like it because through this I can do a lot of research quickly and easy on someone I’m targeting, or better yet find more information or other talent – coworkers/friends/or a forum board to links they and similar others maybe active on 😉
This might be most similar to an internet site such as Spokeo. There is another online web tool that comes to my mind also that searches boards, conversations, and forums. Cocomment searches for and tracks comments or postings within websites and forums. I first found out about Cocomment last year at the Techcrunch 9 August Capital party where I met the owner and found out he is an avid motorcyclist too 😉
[Note: I noticed while Usernamecheck isn’t perfect all the time, it has on several occasions for me thus far uncovered good free competitive intelligence to information on talent. An example of how I used it last week would be that I was curious about discovering more information on Gov. Sarah Palin so I typed in gov.sarah (and possible alternatives such as sarah.gov or gov.palin and more) into the username field box at the top. I then searched and saw what results and possible common social sites she may have an account or presence on. So…a common handle I usually use is people’s first part of a person’s email as usually most people keep their same patterns or shorten versions of it. The “handle” I mentioned could also be as a blog, website or something they go by like researchgoddess, recruitinganimal, or idonato.]
Hope this may help give you additional insight into talent and/or lead you to discovering others!
All The Best!
On a side note I will be at a luncheon from Noon-1:30pm at Birk’s restaurant in Santa Clara on Wednesday, October 8th to learn and see more about JobFox. JobFox is hosting this FREE luncheon! To learn more about JobFox and grab a possible free lunch on them at Farallon, Birk’s or Zibibbo next week in the bay area please e-mail dweiss@jobfox.com for more information/reserve a free seat!
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