Future’s So Bright

(The Future’s So Bright) I Gotta Wear Shades (March 17, 2009) Twitter, twitter everywhere and not a drop to drink. Stealing a line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a useful way to begin to unravel the terrors of the deep blue sea that is social media. Like the intrepid land lubbers who […]
 

090317 Twitter Links

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Thought For The Day: “While the need for talent is the same all over the world, different locations are currently facing very different challenges.” 5 Steps to model successful Twitter users Find role models, look at their quantitative performance, emulate them, measure yourself. Twitter Friends Quantitative measures of your Twitter performance. Nice model for good […]
 

Five Things HR Can Do

Five Things HR Can Do (March 13, 2009) The line between HR Basher and patriotic critic is lost on some. While many seasoned HR professionals are an active part of their company’s strategy design and execution, many more are not. I spoke with a colleague last night who said, there are three types of HR […]
 

090313 Map Links

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Thought For The Day: “Immerse yourself in the data. You’ll get used to the overload and overwhelm. There’s clarity on the other side.” Social Explorer This amazing site creates detailed maps from census data. It’s a fantastic tool for figuring out the geographic location of talent pools.  There are also easy to use reports. Here […]
 

090312 Reinvention Links

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Thought For The Day: “Invent your future. Take the long view.” Work On Stuff That Matters Tim O’Reilly keynote…45 minutes of video. Work on something that matters more than money to you – Know what you want to accomplish Create more value than you capture – Not how to capture more for yourself, how to […]
 

090312 Living Dream Links

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Here Comes The Train

Here Comes The Train (Again) (March 12, 2009) First of all, there are two very recent pieces that you need to read to stay on top of the global conversation about HR: Memo to CFOs: Don’t Trust HR (by Richard Beatty from Rutgers University in CFO Magazine) CFOs Should Trust HR, But Do Have Reasons […]
 

090311 HR Women Links

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Thought For The Day: “Role transformation. Radically decentralized communications change things right where you live.” Penelope Trunk’s Notes The Brazen Careerist in a more personal and comprehensive light. Penelope is creating new things everywhere she turns. If you’re thinking about the public persona /private person question, read Penelope’s notes. She’s a category buster. Hear the […]
 

090310.1 Tent City Links

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Thought For The Day: “The old fashioned media is going out of business because they didn’t do their job. They still aren’t doing it. ‘Tent cities’ of homeless on the rise across the US The UK’s Guardian on the broad emergence of tent cities for the homeless across the US. The Daily Mail is also […]
 

090310 Newsy Links

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Thought For  The Day: “HR is nothing less than civil rights and human rights.” If you think that’s nuts, you’ll enjoy today’s article: Accuracy and Trust.  If you think it’s smart, you might like the article anyway. Facebook: no longer a walled garden? Is Facebook going to evolve into a real platform and let the […]