HR Carnival of Global Giving is now open!

Char­ity Work is Hard Work

Wow!   I am overwhelmed.

First, by the gen­eros­ity of peo­ple who have chipped in to make this an awe­some fundraiser for some lucky char­ity.   Sec­ondly, by the amount of time it has taken to pull this mon­ster together.  I have been typ­ing non-stop (with the excep­tion of one work emer­gency) since 5:30 am this morning.

Be for­warned, I haven’t done great proof­read­ing, tested all the links, or even made sure thay I have every post that was sub­mit­ted.  I will clean up detail work later this evening after I go shop­ping for a turkey and some other things that need done now.

If I missed you, email me at michael.vandervort@gmail.com or tweet me, and I’ll fix it!

HR Car­ni­val of Giving

There are now a total of 77 83 85 86 sub­mis­sions to this edi­tion of the HR Car­ni­val, with a cou­ple more expected.  Even though we didn;t hit 100, you all did a hel­luva job.  I haven’t selected the win­ner yet, or cal­cu­lated the exact amount of final dona­tions.  I will do that tonight and post it tomor­row, but some lucky char­ity is going to get sev­eral hun­dred dol­lars rom you gen­er­ous folks.  There are a num­ber of very kind folks who deserve spe­cial recog­ni­tion for their gen­eros­ity. Hope­fully, I caught you all in the text that fol­lows.  If not, the over­sight is due to time con­straint. If you will please let me know, I will will fix it.

Happy Hol­i­days

I think you will find a lot of good read­ing in this edi­tion of the Car­ni­val.  I think we did some good as well.  Wher­ever you are, wher­ever you may be, please accept my heart­felt thanks and wishes for a happy hol­i­day sea­son, no mat­ter which faith or sea­son you cel­e­brate.   Today, we helped make a dif­fer­ence. well done, dudes and dudettes!

The HR Car­ni­val of Giv­ing is now Open!

First up is Karla Porter, who is hope­ful enough to place her trust in HR, and thinks that the rest of us should do so as well.  Karla obvi­ously has a soft spot for the under­dog pro­fes­sion­als, and for the four legged kind as well.   Her pre­ferred char­ity is the Humane Soci­ety of Cozumel Island.   Thanks for send­ing along the $2 in dona­tions as well via Post a Dol­lar, Karla!

Jake Flana­gin of the Max­i­mize Pos­si­bil­ity hits us up with 5 Ways to Keep Account­abil­ity from Becom­ing a Buzz­word in Your Orga­ni­za­tion by Chris Young.

From Ger­many, Laura Schroeder explores the lighter side of human cap­i­tal man­age­ment on her blog Work­ing Girl.  Here is her take on Gen Y, stress, and per­for­mance, amongst other things.  It is called Always avail­able, Always bro­ken.    Laura’s favorite char­ity is Repower Amer­ica.  Good luck, Laura — thanks for jump­ing into the Car­ni­val from across the pond!

One of the FOT team, Kelly Dingee drops by with her spin how one might go about Sourc­ing a Sourcer.  Kelly was inde­ci­sive about her favorite char­ity, giv­ing dual shoutouts to charity:water and Donors choose — both char­i­ties she learned more about at TWTRCON.

Chris Fer­di­nandi from Rene­gade HR shares his thoughts on hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion about your work cul­ture with his post  “Social” Media: How to have a con­ver­sa­tion about your cul­ture”.

Cathy Missildine-Martin shares her ideas on how HR can add to prof­its.  If Cathy is lucky when I draw for the win­ning char­ity, maybe the Samar­i­tan House of Atlanta will reap a lit­tle profit thanks to her sub­mis­sion of their orga­ni­za­tion as her favorite charity.

Mark Levin­son brings a big brained topic to the Car­ni­val, shar­ing his intel­lec­tual insights on a really big topic (and an ani­mal that NEVER for­gets) with his bril­liant piece,  The Ele­phant in the Room: Using Brain Sci­ence to Enhance Work­ing Rela­tion­ships.  He gives us a very smart char­ity choice as well with Kiva!

Mick Collins of InfoHRM shares some strong ideas on writ­ing a mis­sion state­ment for work­force ana­lyt­ics.  He keeps the strong com­ing with his char­ity nom­i­na­tion, Live­Strong.

We are com­ing into the hol­i­day sea­son, and it seems as though it is always hard to find the right thing, or locate that one per­son you need to talk to because they are vis­it­ing fam­ily in Wyoming or what­ever.  Erik Sam­dahl shares some­thing else that is hard to find with a post from the i4cp site called Work­force Plan­ning Is the “Miss­ing Link” for HR by Jay Jamrog.

Larry Wil­son from the HR Com­mons blog shares some uncom­monly insight­ful thoughts on what might be com­ing next for human resources.   He also shares a sin­gu­lar char­ity with his choice of ONE.

Jason Sei­den likes to call things the way he sees them, and he thought his post on work life bal­ance or the lack thereof would be per­fect for the Car­ni­val.  Thanks for shar­ing, Jason!

Joan Gins­berg loves ani­mals.  She also blogs about them some­times.  She shares her thoughts on what HR can learn from pet own­ers.   Joan also sub­mits the Michi­gan Humane Soci­ety for her char­ity.   Joan was also one of the gen­er­ous folks who stepped up and added their gen­er­ous sup­port to this lit­tle char­i­ta­ble ini­tia­tive.  Thanks for your gen­eros­ity, Joan!

Another gen­er­ous soul that added to the char­ity pool is Lance Haun.  Lance just cel­e­brated his wed­ding anniver­sary a cou­ple of weeks ago.  (by lis­ten­ing to HR Happy Hour if I remem­ber cor­rectly!) and this got him think­ing about other anniver­sary events.  Check out why Lance thinks work anniver­saries still mat­ter.  Typ­i­cal of Lance, he sub­mits the ThyCa Research Fund in honor of his wife, a survivor.

Paul Smith rolls into the Car­ni­val with a Hollywood-inspired post from his new site, Wel­come To The Occu­pa­tion.  You might say he was chan­nel­ing his inner Break­fast Club.  The post is titled I’m Doing Soci­ety A Favor…So? (a trib­ute to John Hughes).  For his char­ity, Paul sub­mits MANNA.   Wel­come to the Car­ni­val, Paul!

John Hunter strolls onto the scene with a post from the Curi­ous Cat Man­age­ment Improve­ment Blog called Learn Lean by Doing Lean.   For his char­ity, John sub­mits Kiva an orga­ni­za­tion which he pro­motes on his blog.

The blog­ger with the most infec­tious gig­gle ever, and the Carnival’s main oper­a­tor Shauna Moerke jumps on the merry-go-round with her take on why it is impor­tant to know some peo­ple, but not just any peo­ple. For her char­ity pick, Shauna stays Min­nesota local and selects Open Arms Min­nesota.

Steve Boese is going to be a part of our HR Social Media Street team at the HR Florida 2010 State Con­fer­ence.  (call for pre­sen­ta­tions extended until Decem­ber 28^th!)  Steve is also one of our gen­er­ous con­trib­u­tors to the Car­ni­val in more ways than one.  Steve is match­ing my con­tri­bu­tion dol­lar for dol­lar, and also throws in his two cents on apply­ing some of the prin­ci­ples that pro­fes­sional bas­ket­ball scouts (tal­ent eval­u­a­tors) use to the work­place.   For his char­ity, Steve rec­om­mends Her­itage Chris­t­ian Sta­bles, an orga­ni­za­tion that does ther­a­peu­tic horse­back rid­ing pro­grams for chil­dren and adults with var­i­ous devel­op­men­tal challenges.

Margo Rose, aka HR Margo has writ­ten a post espe­cially for the Car­ni­val.  Her touch­ing and per­sonal post deals with why find­ing a cure for dia­betes is so very impor­tant to her.  Her char­ity of choice is the Amer­i­can Dia­betes Asso­ci­a­tion.   Thanks for being a part of the Car­ni­val, Margo!

Allen Robin­son of the Logic Writer blog comes to the defense of our favorite pro­fes­sional orga­ni­za­tion for human resources pro­fes­sional.  Find out why he believes that SHRM is not the har­bin­ger of the apoc­a­lypse in the uniquely titled post, Why SHRM is not the Anti-Christ of HR.  When I read it, I learned that Allen and I are both alumni from the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan.  Go Blue!  In another unique move, Allen nom­i­nates his own employer orga­ni­za­tion, Vol­un­teers of Amer­ica North Alabama as his pre­ferred charity.

The host of the last reg­u­lar Car­ni­val, Ben Eubanks from Upstart HR did a great job of pro­mot­ing the con­cept of using the Car­ni­val venue as some­thing more than just an anthol­ogy col­lec­tion of blog links.  He inspired my idea to try to do some­thing for char­ity in this round.  You should go read his about how to make the car­ni­val (or any post) mat­ter.  I agree with Ben who says “I think it would be awe­some if peo­ple would take the chal­lenge. They’d be sur­prised at what it may accom­plish.”   Ben also sup­ports his employer as his favorite char­ity, which also hap­pens to be Vol­un­teers of Amer­ica North Alabama .

Wally Bock of Three Star Lead­er­ship brings to the brink of lead­er­ship, writ­ing about The Cen­ter for Cre­ative Lead­er­ship and their newly issued their “Lead­er­ship Gap” report, includ­ing an inter­est­ing list of things that sur­vey respon­dents think won’t be impor­tant for lead­ers five years from now.  You should have a look, but please Mind the Lead­er­ship Gap!  Wally also tells me he wouldn’t mind if the Sal­va­tion Army was the recip­i­ent of our donation.

Gau­tam Ghosh rides the roller coaster all the way from India, shar­ing his thoughts on Build­ing Open Orga­ni­za­tions.   Gau­tam tells us that his favorite char­ity is CRY India (Child Rights and You)

Jes­sica Lee, the bril­liant edi­tor over at Fist­ful of Tal­ent gives Tim Sack­ett the day off with pay to go to the amuse­ment park for doing a great job telling us what to do once you become a new man­ager or HR man­ager.   Since Jes­sica asked me to choose a char­ity, I picked one from Wash­ing­ton DC on her behalf:  DKT Inter­na­tional which pro­motes fam­ily plan­ning and HIV/AIDS pre­ven­tion all over the world.

Melissa Prusher (Dude!) from the DEVON Group shares this post on find­ing a men­tor.  The favorite char­ity at the Devon Group is Lunch Break in Red Bank NJ.

Lau­rie Ruet­ti­mann, the anar­chist riot grrl of the HR world shares her per­spec­tive on Employee Well­ness Pro­grams and Health Insur­ance with us.  She would also like to share our dona­tion with her favorite char­ity, Kala­ma­zoo Ani­mal Res­cue.

Justin Hillier joins us from Europe with a post off the ERE site by won­der­ing Is your social media strat­egy, 120, 240, or 360 degrees?  His char­ity is Live­strong aka the Lance Arm­strong Foundation.

Susan Burns of Tal­ent Syn­chronic­ity is another one of our gen­er­ous sup­port­ers offer­ing a match­ing con­tri­bu­tion of $100 to our cause.  Check out this post in which she shares her thoughts on Tal­ent Camp.  Susan nom­i­nates Women Thrive World­wide as her char­ity.

Meghan M. Biro tells us her rea­sons for start­ing a new blog in her guest post on The Red Recruiter blog called Why blog?.

Jane  Per­due of the life, love, and lead­er­ship blog points out that Integrity is A Non-negotiable Lead­er­ship Require­ment. She also points us to her char­ity nom­i­na­tion, the Cen­ter for Women.

From the blog Deeply Rut­ted, Shen­nee Rutt urges us to ride the fast rides in her post, Rock ‘em, sock ‘em and knock ‘em!  Her char­ity is the Lupus Foun­da­tion of Penn­syl­va­nia.

Dan McCarthy of the award-winning Great Lead­er­ship blog asks should Lead­er­ship and Man­age­ment Devel­op­ment be a national pri­or­ity?  Another pri­or­ity for Dan is his favorite char­ity, Chil­dren Await­ing Par­ents.

Lisa Rosendahl of Sim­ply Lisa is think­ing of tak­ing away your super­vi­sor card, so Card car­ry­ing super­vi­sors, take heed!  Lisa has sub­mit­ted the Autism Soci­ety for her charity.

It’s Kelly Mit­ton , send­ing in a post from her new blog Thryv­ing after she saw the notice on the HR Car­ni­val scroll across Face­book.  Kelly tells us  How to Build an HR Men­tor­ship Pro­gram.  Kelly chooses the Food Bank of West­ern New York as her char­ity, still sup­port­ing  Buf­falo even though she is in Texas now!

Naomi Bloom uses the 2 for 1 spe­cial mat­inée rate to get in the Car­ni­val, telling us that The Road from HRM to Busi­ness Results is Lit­tered with Mis­guided Met­rics Part I and Part II.   Naomi rec­om­mends the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety as her char­ity.  Naomi was also kind enough to make a nice dona­tion in sup­port of this char­i­ta­ble fund rais­ing effort, which is greatly appreciated!

Ben­jamin McCall of RethinkHR.org steps away from the minia­ture golf tour­na­ment long enough to share What Golf has taught me about HR.  Ben­jamin told me to pick any char­ity, so in keep­ing with the topic of the post, we will go with the Tiger Woods Foun­da­tion.

Amit Bha­gria vis­its from Young HR Man­ager to give his overview on Career Oppor­tu­ni­ties with an Ego.  Since Amit didn’t pro­vide a char­ity, I am assign­ing the Asso­ci­a­tion for India’s Devel­op­ment on his behalf.

Dawn Bugni from Dawn’s Blog vis­its to sug­gest if you “Think threat­en­ing to leave to get a raise is a good idea? Think again.” Her char­ity selec­tion is Monty’s Home.

Trish Mcfar­lane offers an amaz­ingly per­sonal piece on why she sup­ports the March of Dimes called Car­ni­val of HR and Char­i­ta­ble Giv­ing.  It is well worth tak­ing the time to give it a read.

Gra­ham Sal­is­bury of HR Case Stud­ies in the United King­dom shares a blog post that seemed to attract some enlight­ened and amus­ing com­ments called Phwoarr! Nice legs, shame about the poli­cies! His char­ity web site is St. Cather­ines.

Our friend Lois Mel­bourne from Aquire drops by the fun­house to tell us about a need for the cure to breast can­cer, and her sup­port the the Susan G. Komen Foun­da­tion.

Veron­ica Lud­wig takes a moment to ask “What’s with the atti­tude?”  For her char­ity, Veron­ica nom­i­nates Help­ing from Heaven: the Lexi Kaz­ian Foun­da­tion.

The Tal­entedApps team shows how HR has a great oppor­tu­nity to improve the way risk impacts strate­gic suc­cess for the busi­ness with HR: Why Broaden Your Risk Per­cep­tive?.   They also add their sup­port for the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety.

Vic­to­rio Mil­ian, the Cre­ative Chaos Con­sul­tant cre­ates fresh con­tent for the Car­ni­val with his Kinder­garten, Recruit­ment, and Poker-What needs to change? Vic­to­rio also likes the New York Pub­lic Library as his char­ity.  He also asked that I add this audio file on his behalf.

Dan Nuroo trav­els all the way from Aus­tralia to visit the Car­ni­val to help us pre­pare for hol­i­day shop­ping by telling to be sure to Knock with our elbows.   Dan’s char­ity pref­er­ence is the MS Soci­ety.

Ali­cia Are­nas from San­era PDC makes her Car­ni­val debut with her social media take titled I’m OK, You’re OK: Social Media Self Esteem.  I am assign­ing Chal­lenged Ath­letes as her charity.

Robin School­ing drops by to say “I’m not a blog­ger, not do I believe I ever will be.  And since I can­not con­tribute via the post for the HR Car­ni­val of Giv­ing, I would like to donate $25 to the over­all “pot”.”   And MY favorite char­ity:  www.rosaliemanor.org a social ser­vice agency in Mil­wau­kee focused on empow­er­ing fam­i­lies, sup­port­ing first time moms and dads and pre­vent­ing teen preg­nancy.  100 years plus of ser­vice to the Mil­wau­kee com­mu­nity — but also loca­tions dat­ing from even ear­lier in Canada and NYC.

Gareth Jones of the Inside my Head blog from the United King­dom warns us about HR and the Tal­ent Cat­a­stro­phe.  Char­ity assigned is Human Rights Watch.

Mervyn Din­nen of the T Recs blog reminds us that can­di­dates have feel­ings too.   And his char­ity link is UK Novem­ber — it’s a men’s prostate can­cer char­ity, and most of the guys in his office are grow­ing mous­taches to sup­port them.   You can click on the donate page and give to the cause rather than an individual.

Eric Peter­son from SHRM pro­vides this post related to diver­sity he calls a Closet with a View.  The char­ity assigned for Eric is the Gay & Les­bian Lead­er­ship Insti­tute.

Fran Melmed writes to tell us about the five peo­ple who really deserve your thanks.   Fran also strongly rec­om­mended a post on giv­ing thanks by Amanda Hite which I am includ­ing as well.   The char­ity I am assign­ing here is Groundspark.  Fran was also gen­er­ous to add $100 to the dona­tion kitty.  Thanks for your gen­eros­ity, Fran!

Jon Ing­ham, who for­merly held the very infor­mal HR Car­ni­val record for “most links” gen­er­ously helps break his own record by shar­ing this post on Sus­tain­abil­ity from the CIPD con­fer­ence in the UK.  For his char­ity, Jon des­ig­nated Oxfam Inter­na­tional, which is men­tioned in the post as well.  Thanks, Jon!

Susan Heath­field pro­vides a great overview on the Paid Sick Leave Dilemma fac­ing busi­ness today.  She chose the Sal­va­tion Army as her charity.

Jen­nifer V. Miller kindly helps us push toward 100 links by shar­ing her post on ways to ensure that you are cre­at­ing a “pos­i­tive bank bal­ance” with your rela­tion­ships.  Her char­ity selec­tion is the Red Cross.

My buddy Frank Roche adds to the Car­ni­val may­hem with a daily tip on for improv­ing employee engage­ment.   For his char­ity, Frank gets Live United.

Mike Haber­man who writes the HR Obser­va­tions blog goes all Geena on GINA.   Mike’s char­ity is the Atlanta Children’s Shel­ter.

Deb­bie J. Brown of Bent Creek Books writes about her expe­ri­ence and thoughts as she trav­eled to HRev­o­lu­tion in Out­liers and Uncon­fer­ences.   Her char­ity is Room to Read.

Dorothy Dal­ton who writes the Future Per­fect: Career Tran­si­tion Strate­gies blog issues the bat­tle cry “Let’s go girls…negotiate!”  It is a good post on an impor­tant issue. Go read it.  Her char­ity choice is UNICEF.

Michael Krupa of InfoBox shares some soft­ware tips for ven­dors.  Mike also gen­er­ously shares his own money, offer­ing to share $1 per post for all posts to the Car­ni­val.   My Char­ity is the Golden State Grey­hound Adop­tion.  Mike says “I own 2 res­cued grey­hounds and they are most mag­nif­i­cent, gen­tle and beau­ti­ful dogs I know.” Thanks for your com­pas­sion and gen­eros­ity, Mike!

Tammy Col­son of HR Junk­yard is another gen­er­ous con­trib­u­tor, shar­ing out of her own pocket for the char­ity pool (up to $100!) and also explain­ing Vol­un­teer­ing and What’s in it for you.  Tammy, thanks for help­ing make this effort work!

Kevin Gross­man of HR Mar­keter gives us a post on the ways in which Human Resources weave the safety net for vic­tims of inti­mate part­ner vio­lence in the work­place.  Kevin also sent me an email telling me that he is also in for $1 per post for the char­ity dona­tion as well ($100).  His choice of char­ity is the National Coali­tion Against Domes­tic Vio­lence.

Stephanie Kempa is a first time con­trib­u­tor to the Car­ni­val and shares the fol­low­ing:  Your tweets have me inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing in HR Car­ni­val — my post is “Why Twit­ter is Worth Your Time”.  I don’t pro­fess to be a social media expert by any means, but wanted to pro­vide an anal­ogy to help peo­ple who are try­ing to fig­ure out if it has busi­ness value or not. Stephanie, the post rocks and so does your choice of char­ity: YMCA Camp Manitou-lin, dona­tions go to help send kids to camp who can’t afford to attend oth­er­wise — camp’s motto is “build­ing bet­ter peo­ple”, which is a very good thing!

Leanne Chase con­tributes to HR in many ways.  Today she con­tributes this piece on the dis­con­nect between job­seek­ers and recruiters with the apro­pos title, Job­seek­ers are from Mars, Recruiters from Venus.  Leanne is also another gen­er­ous con­trib­u­tor, throw­ing $50 into the pot.  Her favorite char­ity, described in her own words:   A char­ity I hap­pen to really like is Angel Flight ( http://www.angelflight.com/) I can­not imag­ine need­ing to get a loved one some­where for med­ical help or not be able to join a loved one in need due to finan­cial pres­sures.  I think the work they did reunit­ing fam­i­lies sep­a­rated dur­ing Kat­rina was wonderful.

HR Super­star Bonita Mar­tin loves a party.  See what she has to say about per­for­mance in her post “Per­for­mance Reviews: Party, part­ing, or feed­back?”.   Her char­ity is the All Stars Project.

Joan Schramm offers her take on How to Moti­vate Employ­ees After Lay­offs.  Her char­ity is the Mid-Atlantic Great Dane Res­cue League (www.magdrl.org).  They are also on twit­ter at @magdrl — cool!

Shar­lyn Lauby, the affa­ble pro­pri­etor at the HR Bar­tender (as well as my friend and neigh­bor) serves up her usual sage advice with a very inter­est­ing post involv­ing Work­place ethics and three mon­keys.  After all, what’s a car­ni­val with­out mon­keys?  The cir­cus? the zoo?  Never mind… For her char­ity, sup­port­ing Back to the Wild.

The HR Store is open for busi­ness and seek­ing cus­tomer feed­back with the query “Awards aren’t reten­tion tools? Or are they?”.  They are asso­ci­ated with a char­ity trust called ‘Divyadeep’ in their state (Kar­nataka) in India and here’s the link to their site.

Andy Spence from Glass Bead Con­sult­ing and the HR Trans­former blog offers up some inter­na­tional flavour with this post on trends for social net­work­ing in the United King­dom.  Andy’s  cho­sen char­ity is The Christie Char­ity in Man­ches­ter — Towards a Future with­out Can­cer.

Mike Kohn at The HR Intern writes about another sta­ple of this time of year for most HR prac­ti­tion­ers in open enroll­ment, it’s the most won­der­ful time of the year!  Mike’s selected char­ity is the Human Rights Cam­paign.

Andy Head­worth shakes off an over­whelm­ing sched­ule to share the 25 things that Gen Y will just not believe ever hap­pened!  Andy’s char­ity will be Leukaemia Research.

Mark Stelzner is also chip­ping in $100 for our dona­tion pool.  Mark is the founder of Job Angels, and an all around great guy.  His post tells us 3 ways to kill a con­ver­sa­tion!

Anita San­ti­ago of Work­force Con­nec­tion is a gen­er­ous sharer on twit­ter.  Today she shares the idea that it is okay to toot your own horn.  Well done, Anita!  Her char­ity is Feed The Chil­dren.

The omnipresent Bill Boor­man shares this post from his UK based blog Nor­ton Fol­gate in which he pon­ders com­mu­nity and where he lives.  Bill is per­haps the most gen­er­ous con­nec­tor of all the peo­ple I know through social net­work­ing.  If you don’t fol­low Bill on twit­ter, you should be. His char­ity of choice is the is Round Table Children’s Wish.

Hire­Cen­trix asks that we please put the Human back in HR.  I couldn’t agree more!  The char­ity of choice here is Abil­i­ties United.

Ryan Estis likes to exhibit pas­sion on pur­pose.  He also has some ideas on Mean­ing­ful Work.  His char­ity is also a mean­ing­ful one, the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety.

Mor­gan Schwartz of Omaha.net sub­mits a pair of posts on behalf of col­leagues.  They are Work­place Bul­ly­ing by Kath­leen Nicol­ini and how to How to Explain an Employ­ment Gap by Vickie Seit­ner.  Thanks to Evil HR Lady for direct­ing them to the Car­ni­val!   I am assign­ing the well known Omaha char­ity Boys Town here.

Beth Carvin of Nob­scot pro­vides a guest post to Human Race Horses about what hap­pens when new employ­ees lose their enthu­si­asm called Shiny Happy Peo­ple Gone Bad.  Beth selects Feed­ing Amer­ica as her charity.

Chernee Vitello aka the high­tech recruiter asks an appro­pri­ate Thanks­giv­ing ques­tion: Are you ready for some foot­ball? Her choice for a char­ity is also very sea­sonal with Christ­mas Shar­ing.

Kris Dunn is kick­ing $50 into the pot for char­ity. He also kicked in this post from his blog in which he calls a bunch of HR peeps “sec­re­taries”.  Go see where you stand!  His char­ity is the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety.  Thanks for the dona­tion sup­port, KD!

Erick Taft asks what is your orga­ni­za­tional foot print? in a guest post on HRH.  Char­ity selec­tion is Shoes That Fit.

Jenny DeVaughn shows us how to use social media to fight can­cer!  Amer­i­can Can­cer Society

Late Com­ers and Omissions

Stephen M. Geraghty-Harrison send me a post from HR Gumbo that I missed the first time around which is sort of an HR Christ­mas Carol.  Sorry Stephen, but you are in now, buddy!  Stephen wants to nom­i­nate the SHRM Foun­da­tion on behalf of HR Gumbo.

Speak­ing of SHRM, I need to add a big HRH Thank You to China Gor­man for her $100 dona­tion to this cause.  She promises she will have a blog post to use when we do this again next year.

Michael Long aka The Red Recruiter sends in a late post from his hol­i­day trav­els.  Michael sug­gests that you punch your recruit­ing gloom in the face!  Michael has a char­ity but the link is on my phone and my phone is in the car from pick­ing Michael up at the air­port and it is pour­ing rain out­side and .…he sent in his char­ity, which is Rotary!

Vinayana Tal­war from Mum­bai who writes the talent@coffee blog asks that I add this post about HR’s  unex­pected encoun­ters with Black Swan events.

Ruth Est­wick aka HR Stalker pro­vides a late entry via guest post on HR Junk­yard.  Here are her thoughts on how HR should be walk­ing the talk and be the Change.

Recruit­ing Ani­mal sends along this audio mes­sage on Per­sonal Chem­istry In Hir­ing, and sub­mits on behalf of a  cousin who has parkin­sons dis­ease via the Michael J. Fox Foun­da­tion.

Some­how I mis­placed the orig­i­nal sub­mis­sion by Sarah White.  Let me cor­rect that error now by offer­ing you the chance to be the 85^th post to the Car­ni­val.  What a per­fect day to read her take on The Gift of (thanks)GIVING.

Wendy Jacob sends along her thoughts on the per­sonal ben­e­fits of social media.  For her char­ity, she sub­mits Marie Curie Can­cer Care.

Peter Gold from Hire Strate­gies sub­mits a post called “who you call­ing stu­pid, stu­pid?”.  For his char­ity, he sug­gests can­cer research. (see above)

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