If it doesn't rain it pours!

Within 48-hours three different CIO roles go live

The Ministry of Social Development have had an acting CIO for over 12-mths but went to market yesterday searching for a CIO. Not a small role.

On behalf of Land Information New Zealand I am recruiting a CIO that will be a direct report to the CEO and along with the other members of the executive team contribute in the running of the organisation.

Then there is the Head of IT role at Trade Me. Jon McDonald the CEO is looking for an individual to join his executive team and help shape the future of Trade Me.

All different but fantastic roles. For the Ministry of Social Development role I believe Sheffield is running that process but if you are interested in finding out more regarding the Land Information New Zealand or Trade Me roles feel free to make contact with me on 978 1896 or nathanmasters@920.co.nz

How powerful is Twitter?

People probably don't need me to tell them, but I was told a story yesterday which rammed it home for me about how powerful Twitter can be.

I was talking to a couple of guys from Trade Me regarding twitter and unfortunately for them the Trade Me site went down earlier this year (which is probably the worst thing that can happen to Trade Me). Anyway within a matter of minutes someone who was on the site 'tweeted' that 'the Trade Me website is down'. Someone from www.stuff.co.nz site was following that person and had the story up on the front page of the Stuff website - this meant that some Trade Me employees found out via Stuff that their own website was down - this is how quickly news can travel via Twitter!