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      I love blogging, but it takes a huge amount of time.  If I’m going to keep this blog – Strategic HCM - going, it needs to make some sort of contribution to my business income. I’m therefore looking for sponsorship. Interested?...
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Google Collaboration

     Day 1 of the informatology conference focused on learning and technology with a presentation by Sudhir Giri from Google. Giri is creating a ‘learning ecosystem’ at Google, in order to get people collaborating internally better....
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The campaign for status updates!

     I had an entertaining and informative meeting with Stacy Chapman from strategic workforce planning firm Aruspex today. We discussed a range of issues from the need to keep workforce planning strategic (see here and here) to the...
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IBM’s HR transformation story

     My favourite session at the CIPD’s HRD conference was provided by Tim Ringo, head of IBM HCM consulting, talking about HR transformation at his biggest client: IBM. One of the things I found particularly interesting was how IBM’s...
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Personnel Today Social Media Week - Review

  Five days, five articles. If you’ve read them, what did you think? If not, my review is here:   You can access the articles at http://bit.ly/PTSocialMediaWeek.
  Technorati Tags: Personnel Today,social media,week,HR,social,Enterprise... READ MORE - Personnel Today Social Media Week - Review

CIPD HRD tweet-up

     Another great tweet-up evening after day 1 of the CIPD HRD conference last night.
Photos are here.   Blog posts on Intuition and IBM’s presentation coming soon… Next tweet-up: Connecting HR   Technorati Tags: CIPD,HRD,Olympia,April,2010,Learning,Development,social... READ MORE - CIPD HRD tweet-up

Connecting HR 2

     The London HR tweet-up’s back, on Thursday 24 June.
If you’re a practitioner who uses or are interested in using Twitter or social media, I hope to see you there. If you’re a supplier, you’re out of luck!  No, seriously, we... READ MORE - Connecting HR 2

Update on Personnel Today Social Media Week

     My articles included in Personnel Today’s Social Media Week so far include:   It's time to for HR to get social Integrating social media into HR processes.   I’m also included in an article by journalist Jessica...
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Delivering effective presentations part 1 (Talking HR 027)

     Tonight, Krishna and I spoke about our experiences in delivering presentations (and quite a bit about Eyjafjallajokull).   Listen to the show here:   We’re going to come back to this topic and talk about...
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CIPD HRD Conference

     I’m back in press blogger mode for the CIPD HRD Conference and Exhibition (including the IFTDO World Conference) later on this week. Look out for a few blog posts (although not as many as I did from the annual conference last year!)....
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Personnel Today Social Media Week

     Personnel Today are running a ‘Social Media Week’ all week this week which will include a new online article from me each day this week, as well as one in the paper magazine. You can learn more about the week in PT’s Friday...
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Top Online Influencer in Talent Management

      I’ve been recognised as the top online influencer in talent management.
The recognition comes from John Sumser’s HRExaminer which has already included me in its list of top online influencers in HR. In one way, this recognition... READ MORE - Top Online Influencer in Talent Management

Kenexa Euro Summit, May 2010

   I’ll be presenting on HR and Social Media at the Kenexa Euro Summit in London on 26 May. “In today's current economic environment the importance of attracting, motivating, engaging and retaining the industry's highest performing employees...
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Connecting HR unconferencing

     We hope Connecting HR can grow to be much more than a tweet-up.
The next thing we thought we might work on is an unconference. I suppose this is partly just because unconferencing seems to meet the spirit of the times: I’ve... READ MORE - Connecting HR unconferencing

Connecting HR tweets again!

   If you’ve read my previous posts, you’ll understand some of the problems Gareth and I have experienced getting the best mix of people to attend Connecting HR (the London HR tweet-up) last week.  But if you were there, or if you’ve scanned...
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Did you miss? (on Social Advantage during March)

    Check out these recent posts from my other blog if you’ve not already seen them: More social media stories (from M&S, Shell, Unilev... Social media stories (from Virgin Media, Santander... Looking back to March 2009 ...
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