Comments for Sima's Blog                                 http://simon.vostry.org Mon, 16 May 2011 07:55:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on My first marathon completed in Prague, loved it! by Simon Vostry http://simon.vostry.org/2011/05/10/my-first-marathon-completed-in-prague-loved-it/#comment-50 Mon, 16 May 2011 07:55:14 +0000 http://simon.vostry.org/?p=48#comment-50 Jeff, you are right it was pretty dumb idea with the new shoes but it worked out. I guess I will more careful next time ;)

]]> Comment on My first marathon completed in Prague, loved it! by Jeff Thompson http://simon.vostry.org/2011/05/10/my-first-marathon-completed-in-prague-loved-it/#comment-49 Sun, 15 May 2011 23:15:46 +0000 http://simon.vostry.org/?p=48#comment-49 Simon,

Thanks for sharing your first marathon experience. It is always great learning from the experience of other first-timers unfiltered than through running magazines and websites.

I can’t believe you ran in new shoes the day before! I am so careful about not buying anything new, including shorts and running t-shirt a month before a run. It seems to have worked very well for you.

I don’t like running gels either: taste terrible, but they work. I was very hungry the last 5kms of my run, despite having a Cliff Energy Bar at the 30km mark. Shows how many calories you burn during a race.

Good luck on your next races!

]]> Comment on The world needs a way how to rank recommendations so we can trust them again by Michal http://simon.vostry.org/2009/11/28/the-world-needs-a-way-how-to-rank-recommendations-so-we-can-trust-them-again/#comment-25 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:24:54 +0000 http://simon.vostry.org/?p=37#comment-25 I think this recommendation requirement is just another depravedness coming out from HR departments of multinationals. They have discovered a new pool of CVs and a new feature without bothering to think what it is and why it is like this. I do not wonder when I see what kind of people typically group up there.

I do not see any need for a RankPage tool. People use LinkedIn for different purposes and as they are full-fledget they should be able to judge the outcome. And if they are not, who cares? Online social networking is mostly just fun so why to overvalue it.

]]> Comment on The world needs a way how to rank recommendations so we can trust them again by Jose Valles http://simon.vostry.org/2009/11/28/the-world-needs-a-way-how-to-rank-recommendations-so-we-can-trust-them-again/#comment-10 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:59:34 +0000 http://simon.vostry.org/?p=37#comment-10 Simon, I see and agree with your point but disagree with your requirement of a tool to rank. Actually you’ve got already the ranking tool: the people ytou trust. I only recommend to people I trust a lot and viceversa. That’s the tool I use to rank recommendation.

The value I give to recommendations is the same I give to a recommendation letter attacheed to a CV: depends on the person that recommends.

However, I’ve never used this to hire… I prefer the traditional way

Cheers

]]> Comment on The world needs a way how to rank recommendations so we can trust them again by Mike Al-Nassir http://simon.vostry.org/2009/11/28/the-world-needs-a-way-how-to-rank-recommendations-so-we-can-trust-them-again/#comment-9 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:24:40 +0000 http://simon.vostry.org/?p=37#comment-9 Sima, the problem is that people do not differentiate between a network of REAL contacts and an address book. The value of a LinkedIn network (and by extrapolation the value of LinkedIn recommendations) is only as good as the real network behind it. And you should not expect more.
Personally, I use different networks for different purposes: on LinkedIn, I only accept connections to people I REALLY know or who are directly recommended to me by someone I trust – don’t ask how many cold connection requests I “archive” ;-)
Plaxo or Xing I use like an address book – if someone wants my contact details, they are welcome.
When I see on LinkedIn the so called “Open networkers” with 1000s (and sometime many more) connections (they call themselves LIONs for “LinkedIn Open Networkers”), I always wonder how that person could possibly recommend them?

On the other hand, while LinkedIn is a good tool to find info about people, I do not believe it is a good recruitment tool.

Enjoy this: http://current.com/items/91503521_linked-in-to-what.htm

]]> Comment on The world needs a way how to rank recommendations so we can trust them again by Robert Morrison http://simon.vostry.org/2009/11/28/the-world-needs-a-way-how-to-rank-recommendations-so-we-can-trust-them-again/#comment-8 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:09:36 +0000 http://simon.vostry.org/?p=37#comment-8 I couldn’t agree with you more. I have actually refused to receive any recommendations from those I have recommended, and like yourself I have limited my recommendations to only a few people I know well and so I really mean what I say. Also whenever I see 500+ contacts on LinkedIn I immediately have a queasy feeling about that person, unless perhaps they are a recruiter or are in sales. I have many thousands of followers on Twitter, but only my colleagues and people I know well on LinkedIn, I consider the former a social network and the latter a reputation network. I would add perhaps another criteria: ratio of recommendations to contacts.

]]> Comment on Revenue Bootcamp in Mountain View with Guy Kawasaki by Twitted by PragueBob http://simon.vostry.org/2009/07/12/revenue-bootcamp-in-mountain-view-with-guy-kawasaki/#comment-5 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:31:45 +0000 http://simonvostry.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-5 [...] This post was Twitted by PragueBob [...]

]]> Comment on Revenue Bootcamp in Mountain View with Guy Kawasaki by nick http://simon.vostry.org/2009/07/12/revenue-bootcamp-in-mountain-view-with-guy-kawasaki/#comment-4 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:08:23 +0000 http://simonvostry.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-4 Not sure how useful the first panel was. Most of the stuff they covered was easily available online.

]]> Comment on Revenue Bootcamp in Mountain View with Guy Kawasaki by KK http://simon.vostry.org/2009/07/12/revenue-bootcamp-in-mountain-view-with-guy-kawasaki/#comment-3 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:42:14 +0000 http://simonvostry.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-3 Interesting reading. Looking forward to next one.

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