OK so with all the technology change in the past few months it took us a bit longer to test and validate all the new hacks for blog search, but they are here now! Check it out: Easy Ways To Source Passive Candidates from Blogs in 10 Minutes or Less with New Methods! 

These 4 pages of techniques and hacks with annotated examples (not to mention the appendix on blog search/productivity resources) will take your sourcing to a whole new level. All kinds of peopel from every different profession have picked up the electronic pen and become citizen journalists. Its up to you to find them (and all their friends) so you can recruit them. Blogs can reveal names of candidates, give you competitive intelligence about companies, product and tools people they like and work with, reveal industry trends, and help you discover who folks hang out with online (peers and co-workers).

Check out this example:  

Java Websphere education (blog | blogs) (comments | rss | feed | archives | posted | tags | trackback) ~cv -job -jobs -send -submit -you

Why it works is because there are some very common elements in blogs. For example, most blog platforms allow readers to leave "comments" and publish RSS feeds of the content of the blog. If we find pages with a comments section, and an RSS feed and perhaps links to pages such as archives of posts, and "trackbacks" then we probably have found a blog! Add to that the fact that you are searching for words similar to CV which of course include resume and vitae, and you have a search for resumes posted on peoples' blogs! The - terms eliminate garbage results like for example job postings, etc. 

All you have to do is change the Java and Websphere to words like Nurse and ER for example, and you have a similar search for nurse resumes! Go ahead, try it, then pick up a copy of the CheatSheet so you can get all four pages of hacks like that one.  All in all, not counting the variations you can come up with on your own, there are over 50 more hacks like this one in the CheatSheet so don't be left out and get in on the action!