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HR: In case you missed the memo, SHRM needs your support this week

July 27, 2011

Federal Legislative Action Alert I got an email from SHRM yesterday asking for assistance in contacting Congress about an important bill currently in play, H.R. 2587, the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act.   This is a surprisingly strong position for SHRM to take.  It is also important to business. You should read it and determine [...]

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The big Facebook launch day

July 2, 2011

Worried how the Facebook page launch would go I usually don’t write about my day job very much.   I sometimes write about things that come up there  that give me ideas to talk about here, but I not about the day-to-day activities.  I am going to change-up on that one today. You may recall that [...]

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A Social media primer for SHRM Chapter Leaders

January 17, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Using social media to push your brand I recently spoke at the HR Florida State Leadership Conference.   My presentation topic was Using social media to push your brand. People who came to the session may have hoped to hear me offer a blueprint for chapters to set up a social media program, [...]

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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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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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Inside Washington D.C. : HR Public Policy according to SHRM

March 18, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Employment Law and Legislative Developments Yesterday was the opening day of the 2010 SHRM Employment Law and Legislative Conference.   I’d like to thank the fine people at SHRM Public Affairs for granting me press credentials to cover the conference this week, especially Julie Malveaux and Jennifer Hughes for helping make that happen. [...]

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Why Al Gore Shouldn’t Be This Year’s SHRM Annual Keynote Speaker

January 23, 2010

Al Gore via last.fm An Inconvenient Choice? Last week, China Gorman used Twitter to announce that Al Gore had been selected as the Keynote Speaker for the 2010 SHRM Conference and Exposition in San Diego. It didn’t take long for the news to spread, or for a debate to spring up on Twitter about whether [...]

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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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Why SHRM should offer SHRM Connect for free!

November 30, 2009

m Image via Wikipedia Free: The Future of Business This is an old video featuring Chris Anderson of Wired talking about the idea of “Free”. His idea was so compelling that he wrote a book about it this year. He also gave it away for free when he first released it. In the video, he [...]

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