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Lessons from the dessert bar at HR Florida

September 2, 2010

Image via Wikipedia You are primed for a great success This was the fortune that I got from a dark chocolate covered fortune cookie during the blogger dinner that we shared on Monday night at HR Florida.   All my friends from the blogging team agreed that we would work our fortune into one of our [...]

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The “Delta customer service responds via Twitter” post

July 7, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Thanks for doing the right thing, Delta! I wrote a post the other day about my worst travel experience of all time, which took place while flying home via Delta Air Lines from the SHRM Global Conference.   I won’t bore you by repeating the details.  It was annoying and inconvenient, and I [...]

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Over There: An Englishman at the SHRM Global Conference

July 6, 2010

One man’s view of HR and SHRM over here As Bill Boorman and a few other people know, from time to wildly random time, I like to run a feature I call “Over There”.   The general concept of “Over There”  is to feature a guest post from an HR practitioner, recruiter, or consultant who works [...]

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My Onboarding (and offboarding) Experience with Delta Airlines

July 2, 2010

Five Planes from San Diego to Tampa As you may already know, I attended the 2010 SHRM Global Conference earlier this week.   I flew out to San Diego on Saturday June 26th, and planned to return home on June 30th, which was the last day of the conference.   The trip out on Delta Airlines was [...]

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SHRM 2010 – My second 48 hours, otherwise known as “Are you on Tweeter?”

June 30, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Random Recaps from San Diego The first ever SHRM/ Monster Tweetup was a Monster Top Shelf kickass production.   Attendance was estimated at 350.   Drinks were flowing.  Elvis Paninis were rocking the snack trays of serving staff.   Robin Schooling continued her 2010 Apple electronics grab by winning an iPad.  I saw a lot [...]

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SHRM 2010 – My first 48 hours

June 28, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Random thoughts from San Diego I have actually been in San Diego for about 50 hours, but hanging out and around the SHRM Conference for 48 hours.   I haven’t been to a session yet.    I am trying to see portions of the conference from a different perspective.   So, if I am not [...]

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Delivering Happiness to the workplace

June 27, 2010

Image by tpeek via Flickr Deliver Happiness Yesterday, on my 5 hour flight from Tampa to San Diego to attend the  2010 SHRM Conference, I read an advance copy of  “Delivering Happiness: a path to profits, passion and purpose” by the CEO of Zappos.com, Tony HSeih. Here is my short take on the book. The [...]

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On the Road Again….to #SHRM10 in San Diego

June 25, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Getting to #SHRM10 by flying Delta Airlines from TPA to LAX…. and then a short jump down to San Diego, where I will be delivering a multimedia stream from #SHRM10 that will include articles, tweets, pictures, and YouTube updates, and possibly a surprise or two. So far, plans include: Dinner with Gerry [...]

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Why Lady Gaga should be the 2010 Keynote speaker for SHRM

May 29, 2010

Image via Wikipedia The Best Alternative to Al Gore (with benefits) Image via Wikipedia As we discussed here a couple of weeks back, SHRM has selected Al Gore to be the keynote speaker at their 2010 National Conference in San Diego.   It is my guess that a lot of people would be the keynote speaker [...]

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Why Al Gore Should Be This Year’s SHRM Annual Keynote Speaker

January 23, 2010

Image by Steve Rhodes via CrunchBase A ConvenientTruth Twitter is a great tool for making connections, spreading the word on services, exchanging thoughts, and sharing important information with various communities.  Last week, China Gorman broke the news on Twitter  that Al Gore will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2010 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition [...]

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