CareerBuilder says the most-often area of inquiry this conference was about how to reach more minorities, as well as other diversity questions. The company has partnerships with BET and other diversity sites.

ZoomInfo says it got more decision-makers/recruiting leaders at its booth this year than in the past.

TheLadders’ Jennifer Machiaverna and her colleagues (cool people from the top down) say their booth was “mobbed” yesterday, the first day of the conference. Recently, Jennifer has been traveling more than a fugitive. She was just in Japan for customer-service training. From here, she’s headed to New Orleans for the EMA conference.

MadDash will soon announce a partnership with one of the big three job boards so that employers will be better able to show videos describing their culture and their jobs (it’s probably Monster or HotJobs, not CareerBuilder, as CareerBuilder recently announced what it’s up to with video).

Kevin Wheeler loves Ning. “This is the future,” he says.