Social Media Reconsidered II Old friend Colin Kingsbury (who is the president of HRMDirect) sent along a note in response to the first article in this series. ” My take on social media is that while they present some unique modalities compared to other communication channels, they are not sui generis. For instance, consumer products […]
Social Media Reconsidered I’m in the middle of a social media siesta. I’ve toned down my participation in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other online communities. It’s an experiment. As an early adopter of the technologies and one of its strong proponents in the recruiting industry, I wanted to test my perceptions. What happens when you […]
Thinking About Measurement The old saw goes “What gets measured gets managed.” That is the simplest way to describe the fundamental workings of management as a discipline. Here, at the dawn of truly strategic Human Capital function, we are often surprised at the degree to which people want to argue about measurement systems. First of […]
Marketing that works well has the net effect of reversing the flow of the phone traffic and lead generation. With no clear marketing strategy, the enterprise is forced to identify every potential sales target by name and then reach out and create the relationship. The hard work of physical lead generation is a part of […]
Please welcome Dr. Dewett as the newest member of the HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board. Dr. Dewett is a leadership expert and professor at Wright State University, author, speaker, trainer, consultant, and Harley nut. Full Bio… Many people-related innovations in the workplace are adopted for the wrong reasons. And I will hazard a guess that half of […]
Review: Linkup Toby Dayton is one of the industry’s least known, most effective entrepreneurs. JobDig, his first offering, is the midwest’s parallel to the Southwest’s Jobing. JobDig delivers recruitment advertising a combination of print, radio and web in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota. Like Jobing’s Aaron Matos, Dayton understands that Recruiting […]
Razz and HRaaS | Feature It used to be easy to understand what software was. With the onslaught of marketing double talk we’re left searching for any real value. This week in our feature Razz and HRaaS, we look at the people side of enterprise software and software as a service (Saas) in the HR […]
Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning, web 2.0, and systems thinking. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. Full Bio Description: This presentation by Jay Cross will address the following points about “Informal Learning” What is Informal Learning? […]
Looks Like Training Have you seen John Sullivan’s laundry list of the dissatisfaction with Recruiting? I whittled it down to a few strokes for the folks at Glassdoor. Recruiting is broken. The failure rate (50%) leaves only one possible conclusion: Recruiters embrace the crummy quality of the profession for reasons of job security. If Recruiters […]
Some times, more of the same makes for something really different. When that happens, it is called an “emergent property” of the system in which it happened. Or, it is simply called emergence. Emergence is defined with exceptionally clear detail in the wikipedia: Emergence is the process of complex pattern formation from simpler rules. This […]
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