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Remember, when LinkedIn acquired this company: … and integrated its functionality into the main product, we got this menu item – Contacts. I became a fan of it early on. The Contacts became the foundation of LinkedIn CRM (contact relationship management) features for everyone. The “Contacts” combined the first-level connections, imported address books,  and “saved” profiles. Initially, we could search using many facets and see …

For starters, Prophet is not new any longer, but has gained much-deserved popularity since it was introduced and is absolutely worth using. In the past few months, I’ve noticed a myriad of other tools, all of which will try to find an email address, starting from a social profile or, in some cases, from the persons’ and company names. It’s up to everyone to …

  As LinkedIn has informed their users, “On February 25th we’ll be removing the ability to save new contacts and sort your contact list by saved contacts. We’ve migrated the contacts you’ve already saved to a tag called “Saved_ Contacts” so you won’t lose anything you’ve already stored.” This is an unfortunate turn for those of us who have used …

As some sourcing tools are going away, I am becoming more interested (almost addicted!) to creating and using Custom Search Engines for sourcing. Recruiters have not yet utilized this resource to its full strength – especially, semantic search features, unavailable on Google.com “proper”. I have already shared Search Engines for Accountants and for Physicians. Here are five Search Engines, each with an example search string, to help …

Are we experiencing a general tools decline? What are the most innovative tool concepts since people aggregators made their appearance a few years ago? Here are some tools that have reduced functionality or are gone altogether: The latest version of MS Outlook no longer supports the Social Connector. The last Outlook version that still supports ir, the one from Office 2013, …

If you are searching for Accountants, here is (yet another) new Custom Search Engine to try: http://bit.ly/AccountantsCSE I built it using the semantic mechanism available in Google’s Custom Search Engines, the same as the one I used for Physicians Search Engine in the previous post. Example uses: Tax Dublin CPA Seattle contact “818 000…999” Quickbooks help small business tax “bay area” Let …

If you are searching for healthcare practitioners, here is a new Custom Search Engine to try: http://bit.ly/HealthCareCSE (I built it using the semantic mechanism available in Google’s Custom Search Engines, by only showing search results with a meta-tag, an object from Schema.org called “Physician”.) Here are some usage examples: registered nurse houston texas internist geriatrician toronto speech language pathologist florida …

Those of us who save Google searches usually keep them in a text file vs. an MS Word file, to avoid issues caused by auto-formatting. (By the way, if you haven’t noticed, Google is processing “curly quotation marks” all right now, in the same way as straight quotation marks; but if a minus is converted to a dash, your strings will …

  The first edition of the e-Book “300 Best Boolean Strings” is ready and starting to ship!!! (“Shipping” electronically, of course.) The format is PDF where you can click on links to reproduce searches. Writing it took much more work than I had expected. Verifying the exact syntax rules down to every detail, selecting the material, re-running all the search strings, and formatting was a lot of effort. I wouldn’t …

Thanks everyone for participating in the year-end Boolean Sourcing contest! The prize is the 300 Best Boolean Strings e-Book  that is being released two weeks from now. Sourcing is a global discipline! We had truly international participation this time, with contestants coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Russia, Switzerland, Romania, Hungary, Philippines, and …