From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Embrace the Old, Embrace the New

April 22, 2009

I am highly pleased to present a guest post from GL Hoffman, the author Dig Yout Job, and the founder of the job board LinkUp. G.L. Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur and venture investor/operator/incubator/mentor. Two of his companies have traveled the entire success path from the garage to IPO. He has been featured in Forbes, [...]

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SHRM is Taking Over My Blog!

April 21, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Getting By With a Little Help From My Friends Check out the big news from SHRM here on Friday in a post written by China Gorman! Sometimes I am a procrastinator, especially when it comes to travel. I am traveling tomorrow – my wife Kyle and I are going to Peru to [...]

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Most Important Factor When Hiring

April 20, 2009

How Do You Hire? The New York Times did an interview over the weekend with Nell Minow, co-founder of the Corporate Library, where she talked about managing people. When asked what she looks for in making a hiring decision, she said: “I really look for a kind of a passionate curiosity. I think that is [...]

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Government Work

April 19, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Apparently government doesn’t work, at least not very efficiently. I guess that’s why they call it an oxymoron when you use “government” and “work” in the same sentence. Someone I know recently got a job working as a temp for the US fed government on a project that comes around every few [...]

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Five People to Avoid at Work

April 19, 2009

Avoiding Abuse of Rank at Work Dr. Julie Ann Wambach is a counselor, mediator, coach and writer. She operates a web site called Right-Rank and has written a book called Battles between Somebodies and Nobodies: Combat Abuse of Rank at Work and at Home. If you have conflicts with someone at work or at home, [...]

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Building Social Communities in Human Resources (and SHRM!)

April 18, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Beyond Twitter Laurie Ruettimann has a contest running over on Punk Rock HR that is seeking advice from Human Resources people on what kind of social networking community SHRM should build. I think it is one that should be built by its users and that SHRM should consult with us. However, the [...]

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Using Tweetdeck Productively

April 16, 2009

Tweetdeck Revisited Image by Kounelli via Flickr We are getting ready to wind down our extended week of training for Human Resources Pros on social media and on using twitter as a social networking tool. In my post on using twitter as a research tool, I wrote about tweetdeck being a very useful part of [...]

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Social Media Research Tips for Human Resources

April 15, 2009

Using Google Alerts as a Research Tool Over at ProBlogger, Darren Rowse recently posted on how bloggers can utilize Google alerts as a tool to monitor what is happening in their blog niche. This is a technique that would apply not only to blogging, but to any professional field, including human resources. Here are some [...]

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Thirteen Tips on Doing Research Via Twitter

April 14, 2009

Twitter as a Research Tool Continuing our series on utilizng twitter as an entry point into social media, here is a set of links from a variety of sources expanding further on the benefits and techniques for using twitter as a research tool. A Ph.D. and his idea on using twitter as a research tool [...]

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Human Resources Day

April 14, 2009

Another HR Holiday! Well, a special holiday for HR anyway…in Singapore. When will we get HR day in the US? (April 1st maybe?) From The Straits Times: MINISTER for Manpower Gan Kim Yong kicked off Singapore’sfirst Human Resources Day (HR) on Tuesday morning, which saw more than 700HR professionals taking a walk at the War [...]

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