The Champion is....
Talented Apps!! - Surviving 5 head-to-head match ups in the FOT Talent Management Blog Power Rankings, the gang from Oracle, lead by Meg and Mark, has emerged as the champion of the little contest we put together called March Madness.
Congrats Talented Apps!! It's no small feat to win this thing, because we had 32 kickin' blogs that started the tournament, and it wasn't enough to simply be good and liked - you had to motivate your tribe to vote for you. Almost 3,000 votes after starting the tourney, TA is the winner, after defeating Your HR Guy 56% to 44%.. nice....Congrats also to Lance at Your HR Guy, although I'm still on the DL after taking a beating in the semi-finals...
Here are my thoughts about the tourney we called March Madness:
1. I like the format, although 5 rounds got a little long.
2. The folks who were the most successful, even suprising, were the teams who could mobilize their "tribe" to vote for them. That includes Talented Apps (big company), but also some folks with big Twitter and Facebook presences.
3. Cinderella Stories - the multiple wins by Lisa at HR Thoughts and Mike at HR Observations. I knew the quality was there (I'm a reader of both), but had no idea how strongly your tribes thought of you. Now I know... Well played!!
4. How did I lose? Aren't I the CEO of FOT? Who said this should be fair? Should I make a management change on the editorial side (just joking, JLee)
Congrats to everyone who played!!!
Congratulations Meg, Mark & co.
And a great competition Kris, Jessica & co.
One more post-madness thought to add - which is that I think the competition has provided a good example of the benefits of a crowdsourcing approach - in that although the process hasn't been particularly rigorous, I think it has generated a very sound outcome (ie no doubt about it, Talented Apps is a great HR blog).
Posted by: Jon Ingham | Monday, March 23, 2009 at 06:07 AM
A big congrats to Talented Apps on the win.
Great point by Jon about crowdsourcing too.
Posted by: Lance Haun | Monday, March 23, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Thank you, Jon and Lance for the kind words. Indeed, we're big believers in the Wisdom of Crowds now! :-)
Mark
Posted by: Mark Bennett | Monday, March 23, 2009 at 01:15 PM