"The British economy may be contracting, perhaps by almost 4% this year, but that means the UK's output will diminish to the level of three or four years ago - when we weren't paupers. So there are lots of profitable opportunities for entrepreneurs and businesses that know what they're doing."

Emma at Sky is the big cheese when it comes to finding talent to keep our favourite programmes on the screen. She got a surprise last week when her roles turned up on 'executive job board' Experteer. She hadn't posted them there. 

It turns out that Experteer had posted Emma's roles with her permission. When she asked them to remove them, they refused. And so she posted on Twitter. A few hours and a number of reposts later, thousands had seen the saga including many potential Experteer customers. Not surprisingly the roles were removed from the site.

In this whole episode is the importance of brand both for job boards and recruiters. It's a digital age and word spreads fast by email, blogs, Twitter and web forums. Brand will play an important part in the talent wars. News of how we behave spreads fast. It's vital to remember that. 

The decline isn't over yet but there are hints that the decline isn't declining as much. The slump in manufacturing is easing, house price data while differing suggests the house price crash is easing and the service sector which is 75% of UK plc is showing signs of life.

Any signs of spring for the recruitment sector? 

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 1.5.0 is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only a few things left to do.

Write Permissions

To be able to log in to the blog and writing posts, you need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder. If you’re blog is hosted at a hosting provider, you can either log into your account’s admin page or call the support. You need write permissions on the App_Data folder because all posts, comments, and blog attachments are saved as XML files and placed in the App_Data folder. 

If you wish to use a database to to store your blog data, we still encourage you to enable this write access for an images you may wish to store for your blog posts.  If you are interested in using Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, VistaDB, or other databases, please see the BlogEngine wiki to get started.

Security

When you've got write permissions to the App_Data folder, you need to change the username and password. Find the sign-in link located either at the bottom or top of the page depending on your current theme and click it. Now enter "admin" in both the username and password fields and click the button. You will now see an admin menu appear. It has a link to the "Users" admin page. From there you can change the username and password.  Passwords are hashed by default so if you lose your password, please see the BlogEngine wiki for information on recovery.

Configuration and Profile

Now that you have your blog secured, take a look through the settings and give your new blog a title.  BlogEngine.NET 1.4 is set up to take full advantage of of many semantic formats and technologies such as FOAF, SIOC and APML. It means that the content stored in your BlogEngine.NET installation will be fully portable and auto-discoverable.  Be sure to fill in your author profile to take better advantage of this.

Themes and Widgets

One last thing to consider is customizing the look of your blog.  We have a few themes available right out of the box including two fully setup to use our new widget framework.  The widget framework allows drop and drag placement on your side bar as well as editing and configuration right in the widget while you are logged in.  Be sure to check out our home page for more theme choices and downloadable widgets to add to your blog.

On the web

You can find BlogEngine.NET on the official website. Here you'll find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more. The ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex where the daily builds will be published for anyone to download.

Good luck and happy writing.

The BlogEngine.NET team