Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText describes how he found a CEO
"One thing that is of interest is how we met Eugene through the strength of weak ties. I blogged it and he saw the post via TechCrunch. I also posted it on LinkedIn and sent it to my contacts. One of them was a mutual acquaintance and when they happened to have breakfast the next week. We had 250 applicants that we narrowed down collaboratively through a wiki, of course. Finding the right guy in two months this way is in stark contrast to paying an executive recruiter $100k to act as a PI for six months."
Of course, helps that SocialText is a wiki software company...kinda eating your own dogfood, but an HR innovation others will likely also benefit from
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