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Federal Labor Agencies Put Social Media to Work

March 28, 2010

NLRB on Facebook and Twitter From Drop Box I have mixed emotions about writing about this topic. I mean, it can’t be a bad thing that the U.S. Government is actually advancing the use of social media tools by getting some of the agencies out there in the forefront, using the tools, right? I just [...]

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Scoping Out Some Social Media Superstars

March 9, 2010

Image by rotheche via Flickr I was on the phone yesterday morning when it suddenly dawned on me that all the really big Social Media Superstars have names that start with an “S”.    Don’t believe me? @StephanieALloyd @Sexythinker @Shennee_Rutt @Scobleizer @Sumser @ScottMonty @Slouch @Seiden @stelzner @SteveBoese and the biggest, baddest social media cat of them [...]

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What the hell is a posterous BizStream anyway?

January 16, 2010

Image by apozzodiborgo via Flickr Information Consumption can be difficult As some of you may know, I read a lot of stuff every week.  Most of my news and information consumption comes from the Internet, although I read a lot of magazines and other media as well.   While no one has measured it, I think [...]

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How I got started using Social Media in HR

December 26, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Looking back Like many other bloggers,  I am recycling old material as holiday filler reflecting back on the previous year, and in some cases, the beginning of my blogging efforts.   I read this piece from August 17, 2007 this morning.  It talks about how I first got introduced to social networking, and [...]

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The Benefits of On-Line Community

December 11, 2009

Image by luc legay via Flickr Friday with HR Ringleader Thank goodness, it is Friday.  Wait, I’m on vacation!   Bah Humbug, it’s Friday! (BHIF!)  I’ll be back on Monday, but wrapping up this week of guest posts is the HR Ringleader, Trish McFarlane. I like Trish and her thinking a lot.   In fact, I like [...]

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HR: a Community of Practice!

December 9, 2009

A new blogger, Benjamin McCall from ReThinkHR.org is writing from an OD perspective, and looking to get some traffic over on his site.   He presents a great post directly my requested theme of “Community”.  Check out the post, and then go check out Ben’s new site! “A community is like a ship; everyone ought [...]

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The Social Media Epiphany

December 6, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Today is an epiphanous day Dudes, it is Sunday morning, and I just had an epiphany.  I didn’t have it in church, and it didn’t involve the manifestation of a deity. That is unlikely to ever happen since I rarely go to church.    My epiphany was the other [...]

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Titles, Talent and Twitter

June 2, 2009

Lipstick on a pig? (h/t to Michael Homulka for that phrase, and he has a much better picture and post here) I saw the following short “conversation” in the “What’s your view?” section of the Morning News Beat blog. It deals with the hiring of Director of Talent Acquisition by PriceChopper, a chain of food [...]

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