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Labor Relations 101: What is protected concerted activity?

May 8, 2013

What is protected concerted activity?  Protected concerted activity is a very popular search topic on the blog.  HR practitioners are looking this up more and more, so here is the precise definition of what consitiutes protected concerted activity, straight off the NLRB website. Is the activity concerted? Generally, this requires two or more employees acting together [...]

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A beautiful new LinkedIn profile

April 30, 2013

LinkedIn profile rejection Apparently it’s Dutch week here on HRH.  Lots of Dutch news these days – a new King and Queen of the Netherlands were crowned, and the latest version of the social recruiting phenomenon known as TRU Amsterdam just concluded. Despite the success of TRU, and the seemingly global adoption of social recruiting, there is [...]

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Secret diary of an introverted “extrovert”

October 27, 2012

Cut out the chit chat and get down to business I wrote this piece for Sanera Camp, a small business blog  run by my friend Alicia Arenas.   The original title was “4 Tips For People Who Don’t Like Networking”.   Basically, it offers up some ideas on how I use social networking to meet people virtually [...]

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Did you miss me?

October 4, 2012

I was on vacation Sorry about that, folks.  I left town (and the blog) with little or no explanation last week.  I was lured away by the invitation to take a last minute vacation with my wife.  Nobody would say no to that!  The one rule was that we were both turning off our computers [...]

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SHRM endorsed slate wins by large margin over SMFT write-in slate #SHRM

September 13, 2012

You probably already have this in your email if you are a paid up member of SHRM for 2012,but just in case you haven’t seen it.  Here ya go via Jose Barrios: The third-party election oversight company that SHRM retains to administer our board election processes, Election Services Corporation, has confirmed the election results; and [...]

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The Complete Compendium #NoFearHR

September 8, 2012

#NoFearHr on Drive Thru HR   Jay Kuhns and I are going to be on Drive Thru HR on Tuesday of next week.  Yeah, that’s 9/11/2012. We’re going to talk some social media, and maybe even a little bit about our sometimes collaborations on a project we titled #NoFearHR. What the hell is #NoFearHR, you [...]

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My Farewell Speech to HR Florida (the other IMPORTANT part)

September 5, 2012

The HR Florida Wrap, hold the lettuce and mayo I started writing this little farewell ditty to my role at HR Florida a few days ago.  I talk too much, and ran out of room to get it done on one post.  Then I ran out of time to get it done over the weekend.  [...]

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(Data) Impression from HR Florida #HRFL12

August 30, 2012

Social Impressions from HR Florida We just wrapped the 2012 HR Florida State Conference.  I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about, but not a lot of time right now.  Ket’s go with this.  Thanks to my social tech members for being a part of our little events.  You know who you [...]

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Death by Infographic

August 22, 2012

Workplace Safety Infographic  There is no great commentary with today’s post, just a link to an interesting infographic, if you like that sort of thing. The topic of the infographic is “The Deadliest Job Isn’t What You Expect“. It’s worth checking out even if like me, you aren’t a workplace safety engineer. There is a [...]

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Twitter mutant offspring break out of lab. Here come Medium and Branch.

August 16, 2012

Mad science or natural evolution of social?  Coming soon,  a couple of new offspring from the creators of Twitter that will either enhance your social media experience, or add a couple of more platforms that you won’t have time to use.  They are called Medium and Branch.  Medium reinvents publishing, maybe.  Branch reinvents communication, possibly. What is [...]

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