Networking – Online or Off?
In a few short days, many HR and recruiting pros from the world of Twitter will be heading to an unconference called TruLondon. I am truly heartbroken that circumstances, mostly financial, prevent me...
View ArticleSHRM Employment Law & Legislative Conference 2010 – Rants and Raves
RANTS The Legal Environment for Business Professionals - this “pre-conference” was my first stop on the first day. The presenter, Richard Coffinberger, JD, is an Associate Professor at George Mason...
View ArticleCarnival of HR – Special Employment Edition
Maybe I should have called it the “Special Unemployed” Edition, because the purpose of this special Carnival is to highlight HR professionals who are unemployed, and these people are all pretty...
View ArticleHRevolution – Rants and Raves
Mark Stelzner as Donald Trump - sort of Back in March I did a post following a SHRM conference called Rants and Raves. Since I have no desire to re-invent the wheel, and I find that the title is the...
View ArticlePut Up Or Shut Up = Mommy or Yoda?
I‘ve been thinking a lot lately about the conflict between the two different schools of thought regarding goals and the effort it takes to meet them. One is represented by the inspirational saying...
View ArticleWhose Privacy Is It, Anyway?
My husband, Sy, hates, hates, HATES it when I mention him on Facebook. Sometimes he positively snarls a demand: “Don’t put that on Facebook!” Other times he just whines a little: “You’re not going to...
View ArticleVetting Social Media Speakers
The Klout "fail" puppy is cuter than a fail whale. If the term “human resources” is in your name, like Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it would be reasonable to expect that you know...
View ArticleHR Should Quit Fiddling With Social Media
When I was recently asked by a local SHRM chapter (not my own) if I would be interested in speaking about “what’s new” in HR management, I politely declined. First, in my opinion there is not much new...
View ArticleILSHRM11 – A Twitter Success
Patty Grossert is the Human Resources Director at North American Medical Management in the Chicago, Illinois area. She currently has 155 contacts on Linkedin, about 3 times the national average of 60,...
View ArticleThe Legal @Animal and Twitter Account Names
(Author’s note: This post was drafted several days ago, but I was unable to post it because I needed to keep my SHRMChat post on the front/top page until today. Last night I heard that @Animal had...
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