New Workforce - The Weblog of New Equities

Yeah, what he said!

Over at CharlotteRecruiting.com, Jim Durbin says some very nice things about New Equities and this blog (and yes, our ears are burning):

Who is our favorite recruiting blog?  Why, it was and always has been the New Equities Weblog.  While the rest of us were chatting through the Recruiting.com community about theory and practice and goofiness, New Equities was learning how to use their blog to hire people in their local community.

The whole reason I chose Charlotte as one of my local sites (I also write StlRecruiting, KCRecruiting, and SeattleRecruiting) is because of New Equities.

Their model is based on community, the building and sustaining of them as candidate pools for New Equities clients.  In a world where everyone is decrying the lack of quality consultants, New Equities is the only company I've seen take the step to doing so.

Jim was formerly a top recruiter for kforce and now works as a consultant specializing in online media and employment branding, so it's especially high praise coming from him. He has been a reader and fan of New Workforce for some time, in fact in 2005 he nominated us for Recruiting.com's Best Blog Awards (Taleo's blog won in our category, but it was still quite an honor to be in the company of heavy-hitter blogs from Google, Microsoft, SimplyHired and Indeed.com).

Anyway, thanks to Jim for his kind words and enthusiasm for our model. We definitely want "community" to be something more than the buzzword du jour, and that means making connections with our members offline as well as online. If you're a New Equities consultant, or a member of our larger community, let us know how we're doing and (more importantly) what we should be doing.

UPDATE: Another workforce blogger, Jim Kissane, also sends out props: "New Equities is a progressive collection of thinkers that always challenge and inspire me." Again, we're blushing. (But you still included the comment. - Ed.  Well, yeah...)

New Equities hosting presentation on SOA

For those of you in the Charlotte metro, New Equities is once again hosting the Charlotte Java User Group's (CharJUG) monthly meeting. The presentation topic will be:

Enterprise Content Discovery with SOA

The presenter will be Gavin Sutcliffe, whose most recent activity has been to migrate Department of Defense and U.S. intelligence community information systems from proprietary systems to service oriented architectures. He will cover the following topics:

• Schema and WSDL overview
• UML Sequence diagram walkthrough
• Architectural overview
• Query federation and aggregation engine
• Search service
• Service consumer, or client
• Use case walkthrough
• Query entry and Query federation
• Results generation, aggregation, transmission and presentation
• Scalability and Security issues
• Quality of service and reliability

Date and Time:

Tuesday, Sept. 19, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

Location:

New Equities Offices
200 South College Street
Suite 1630
Charlotte , NC  28202
704.373.6373
(Map)

Space will be limited, so RSVP now at the CharJUG Meetup site.

Sun's Dave Johnson coming to Charlotte

New Equities is pleased to be sponsoring the CharJUG's August meetup, which will be held Monday, August 21st, 6:30 pm at our headquarters in downtown Charlotte. This month's guest speaker will be Dave Johnson from Sun:

Beyond blogging: Atom format and protocol

Like XML-RPC and SOAP before, feeds and publishing protocols were born in the blogopshere and quickly moved beyond blogging. Nowadays, web service providers are using RSS/Atom feeds and REST-based publishing protocols as lightweight alternatives to SOAP. And developers are finding new ways to combine web services from different sites into new applications, known as "mash-ups" in the lingo of Web 2.0. If you'd like to do the same, then attend this talk to learn about the new IETF Atom feed format (RFC-4287) and the soon-to-be-finalized Atom protocol, which together form a strong foundation for REST-based web services development.

More information at the CharJUG Meetup site.

July Charlotte Java Meetup

Tonight. New Equities is hosting. The presentation is "Java Service Faces" with Tyler Williams. Details here.

Wally McClure presents Ajax

On Tuesday, July 25th, New Equities is sponsoring an event for .NET developers through the Charlotte chapter of the Enterprise Developers Guild: "Wally McClure presents Ajax". Here's the event info:

Date:	7/25/2006
Time:	6:00 PM
Location:	Microsoft Campus

Join us Tuesday, July 25, at 6 PM on the Microsoft campus for an evening with Wally McClure -- MVP, author, and Tennessee neighbor. Wally is working on a new book and is eager to show us how Ajax has progressed for .NET web developers. In case you've been vacationing on the South Pole without an internet connection, Ajax is the technique of getting information exchanged between the client and the server without a post-back and the usual page flash and redraw.

Wallace B. McClure graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He continued his education there, receiving a Master’s degree in the same field in late 1991. Since that time, McClure has done consulting and development for such companies as Coca-Cola, Bechtel National, Magnatron, and Lucent Technologies, among others. He is the founder and president of McClure Development. You can find Wally’s blog at weblogs.asp.net/wallym.

We have also added Wally's blog from our Tech Links blogroll in the right column.

Directions to the Microsoft Campus can be found here, as well as on the Enterprise Developers Guild website.

For Charlotte art history buffs

Local historical trivia question for Charlotte residents: Can you explain the significance of the statues downtown at the corner of Trade and Tryon?

Give up?

"Standing on each corner of Trade and Tryon are four giant sculptures by Washington artist Raymond Kaskey. The statues are titled "Transportation," "Future," "Commerce," and "Industry." Transportation is represented by a railroad worker holding a hammer in his hand. The figure of a woman holding a child represents the Future of the city. Commerce is symbolized by a gold miner spilling money on the head of a banker. The face of the banker is modeled after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Industry is represented by a woman in a bonnet, symbolizing the mills and early industry of the area. The child peeking from her skirt suggests past child labor."

More Charlotte City Center Art here.

(Hat tip: Frank Hernandez)