Speaker Bio Dave Mendoza is an award winning blogger, global speaker and Master Cybersleuth consultant. He is an affiliate partner of JobMachine Inc. and corporate partner to both RecruitingBlogs.com and the Recruitment Community Europe (RCE) Conference. Dave is a leading advocate for microsite talent communities; building aggressive talent pipelines and research capabilities while maintaining substantive social networking relationships. Dave is recognized for his networking and blog achievements as one of the top 20 networkers worldwide on Linkedin and for his contributions. His recruitment blog "Six Degrees from Dave, spotlights HR industry leaders, sourcing gurus, global staffing practices and social networking. It was recently honored with 3 awards: RecruitingBlogs.com's "Best Overall Recruitment Blog of 2007" & "Best Recruitment Industry Blog of 2007, and HireAbility's "Best Recruitment Blog of 2007." Dave's blog was listed #3 out of 25 of the best blogs of 2007 by HRWorld.com. His site also received most votes for Best Recruitment blog of 2006 at Recruiting.com. He has presented at various global recruitment conferences, Staffing Management Association events, webinars and workshops. Most recently, Dave co-presented at the AustralAsian Talent Conference on "Blogging for Talent" with thought leader, Kevin Wheeler, and served on a panel on "Social Media: How is Technology Impacting Recruitment?" Panelist at Kennedy Expo Vegas 2008's "Ask the Experts — a Sourcing Summit Town Hall." He served as Moderator for a Three Part Kennedy Info, Audio Series on "Blogging for Talent, Branding and Web 2.0 Relationships" and a Kennedy Conference & Expo General Assembly Panel, "Blogging from 'Guerilla' Marketing to Mainstream Recruiting," Co-Presented both "Mastering Linkedin" an ERE "Full Day Master Session, Advanced Sourcing Workshop" with Shally Steckerl and Glenn Gutmacher. Few in the recruiting business take "networking" more seriously or pursue it more passionately. Session: Recruiting and Social Media: An Interactive Dialogue with Experts There's no doubt that social media has proliferated into the workforce and is being used by recruiters. The question is how this media should be used to uncover the elusive passive candidate and rare talent that you are trying to recruit. We have assembled a panel of experts and power users to help us uncover the real leverage within the emerging trends. Moderator: David Mendoza, "Sixdegreesfromdave" Panel Member 1: Jeremy Garlington, "The Garlington Report” Panel Member 2: Margaret Schweer, Ph.D., Vice President, nGenera Panel Member 3: TBA. .