Will the last person out please turn off the lights: Yahoo’s Director Communications & Communities Kiersten Hollars (pictured right along with CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker) will shortly be leaving the company to lead Digg’s communication team.
Hollars previously reported to Brad Garlinghouse, who announced his departure in mid June. Her previous boss, Bradley Horowitz, is also gone - he left for Google in February.
This is the second reported departure from Yahoo today. More are certainly coming.
It really is sad to see Yahoo slowly coming apart like this.. even if I am all for Google..
Agreed, although this is the price you pay for hubris. I know a little something about that…
maybe not everything is for money….
How about that. The ex-Director Communications & Communities at Yahoo (without the bang, I see…) is joining the ex-Community Manager for Mash at Yahoo!, Natalie Villalobos.
I wish Yahoo! would take me in!
What does a director of communications do?
They deal with the customers so the engineers don’t have to.
They have people skills.
They are good at dealing with people.
Can’t you understand that?
Whoa, dude…he just asked what a dir. of comm does. Clearly you’d make a poor one
Ryan, are you one to “jump to conclusions”?
“So a DoC talks to customers? ”
trying to get back on track with where you were going and great thought process on the reply. I total see Jerry Yang as another Tom Smykowski
oops total mi read the article, but if Jerry Yang was leaving it would he could fill the Tom Smykowski roll well.
hahaha that’s a quote from the movie, “Office Space”… sorry you didn’t get it, ryan
Thanks kat
Umm… yeah…
yahoo should buy digg so they would have more members and more traffic.
Does a slashdot clone really need a “director of communications?”
Does digg need a “Lead Scientist”?
I think any fancy title will do as long as it helps to grab all that VC money…
Does Spinal Tap need two lead bassists?
i still think that yahoo is going to be a lean mean innovation machine by early 2009, and see all the departures as getting rid of dead weight … but i am in the minority in the tech blogger world. between ms. swisher, and mr. arrington, one would expect that the company would have been dead already.
why digg? their day has passed, they’ve been going down hill for six months. neither company would have made her rich, but at least at yahoo she could have vegged out a lot. stupid move
It seems like a lot of people from the bigger tech companies are leaving to work on the up and comers. It seems like everyone wants to be the hero with these small companies.
http://www.SchoolShift.com
No one said that you had to go through school alone.
For a second there I thought I read that Jerry Yang was joining digg.
What happened to your prediction of mass exodus of executives from Yahoo! in August?
it happened, per our coverage. and it continues.
Does digg mean shit? Really? It took them months to roll out a comment system upgrade. Everyone over there is suckling at the teet of venture capital and they are hooked on the shit. They don’t want to do anything, just coast through the days (it isn’t like there are new features being added on any sort of schedule). Digg seems like the writers of LOST before they lost their contract, nice and happy writing bullshit that amounted to nothing.
My sis works in yahoo and even she plans to quit…
wow.. that’s it. If your sis is quitting, Yahoo is sunk.
You are a douche.
I am new to digg. Does this mean that digg will stop working?
Yes
no, it doesn’t.
Congrats to Kiersten and to Digg… A great match.
A website like Digg needs a ‘Director of communications’ ?
Yahoo actually used to have a pretty stellar PR team, but (like many other depts) all of the good people left and are having success elsewhere now. The company’s press relations of late definitely reflect the mass exodus……not to mention how troubling it is when you realize the message makers can’t stand the message anymore.
I agree with D., it is really sad to see Yahoo! coming apart at the seems, hopefully they can resurrect the beast somehow.
Does anyone know how much of a critical position the Director of Communication and Communities really is? I’m not really that versed in the area, what does this position oversee?
Digg is begining to position itself as a staple for news aggregation. I don’t think we’re going to see Digg die out anytime soon.
WIYE
http://www.whatsinyouremail.com
Kiersten is a class act and a total pro. Digg is very lucky to have her.
Digg needs to hire someone to cleanup their codebase. (see Google’s last minute plug pulling about 6 months ago)
So a lot of these higher-ups ran yahoo into the ground but they are still wanted by other companies?
There goes Digg! LOL
Jiff
http://www.datools.net.tc
there is an internal yahoo rumor that jerry is on the way out….