Abstract: Systems and methods for providing augmented recruitment of candidates that connects candidates with organizations based on soft skills, expressive thoughts and content. The systems and methods create a sense of community, alleviate costs associated with recruiting, and match the best candidates with positions in which they are likely to be successful. The systems and methods utilize web-based technology that includes one or more of media capture, video sampling, peer collaboration, and text-based descriptors. Media may serve as proxy measures or representations of soft skills. A candidate may create a digital profile that includes the representations of soft skills, and may also include more traditional components used in the employment process, such as achievements and skillset. The soft skills representations may be used by recruiters or hiring managers to evaluate candidates based on their soft skills as well as their more conventionally evaluated qualifications.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing personality factor determination for users, teams, and organizations, including determining personality traits and generating a personality factor score for each personality trait. The systems and methods give insight to personality traits of users teams and organizations through the use of personality profiles and by identifying correlations between personality traits of users, teams, and organizations. The systems and methods utilize web-based technology that includes one or more of media capture, video sampling, peer collaboration, and text-based descriptors. Media may serve as proxy measures or representations of personality traits. A personality profile may be generated for a user, team, or organization, which includes representations of their personality traits. The representations may be used to evaluate users, teams, and organizations based on their personality traits.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing augmented recruitment of candidates that connects candidates with organizations based on soft skills, expressive thoughts and content. The systems and methods create a sense of community, alleviate costs associated with recruiting, and match the best candidates with positions in which they are likely to be successful. The systems and methods utilize web-based technology that includes one or more of media capture, video sampling, peer collaboration, and text-based descriptors. Media may serve as proxy measures or representations of soft skills. A candidate may create a digital profile that includes the representations of soft skills, and may also include more traditional components used in the employment process, such as achievements and skillset. The soft skills representations may be used by recruiters or hiring managers to evaluate candidates based on their soft skills as well as their more conventionally evaluated qualifications.

Abstract: A platform receives service requests from a principal. The service request includes a service location that is remote from the principal. A communication session between the principal and an agent that is near the service location is provided. The agent is available to perform the service, which may include remote videography services, tutorial services, or personal shopping services, over the communication session. The principal generates gesture data to direct the agent when performing the service. A visual representation of the gesture data is provided to the agent so that the agent may follow the principal's direction. The gesture data may be blended and/or overlaid image data captured by an image sensor employed by the agent. The principal may provide financial resources to the agent to enable the agent to perform the service and/or compensate the agent for their performance. The principal is enabled to provide metrics for the agent's performance.

Abstract: A platform receives service requests from a principal. The service request includes a service location that is remote from the principal. A communication session between the principal and an agent that is near the service location is provided. The agent is available to perform the service, which may include remote videography services, tutorial services, or personal shopping services, over the communication session. The principal generates gesture data to direct the agent when performing the service. A visual representation of the gesture data is provided to the agent so that the agent may follow the principal's direction. The gesture data may be blended and/or overlaid image data captured by an image sensor employed by the agent. The principal may provide financial resources to the agent to enable the agent to perform the service and/or compensate the agent for their performance. The principal is enabled to provide metrics for the agent's performance.

Abstract: A platform receives service requests from a principal. The service request includes a service location that is remote from the principal. A communication session between the principal and an agent that is near the service location is provided. The agent is available to perform the service, which may include remote videography services, tutorial services, or personal shopping services, over the communication session. The principal generates gesture data to direct the agent when performing the service. A visual representation of the gesture data is provided to the agent so that the agent may follow the principal's direction. The gesture data may be blended and/or overlaid image data captured by an image sensor employed by the agent. The principal may provide financial resources to the agent to enable the agent to perform the service and/or compensate the agent for their performance. The principal is enabled to provide metrics for the agent's performance.

Abstract: TruCast is a method for management, by way of gathering, storing, analyzing, tracking, sorting, determining the relevance of, visualizing, and responding to all available consumer generated media. Some examples of consumer generated media include web logs or “blogs”, mobile phone blogs or “mo-blogs”, forums, electronic discussion messages, Usenet, message boards, BBS emulating services, product review and discussion web sites, online retail sites that support customer comments, social networks, media repositories, and digital libraries. Any web hosted system for the persistent public storage of human commentary is a potential target for this method. The system is comprised of a coordinated software and hardware system designed to perform management, collection, storage, analysis, workflow, visualization, and response tasks upon this media.