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May 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
by Franklin Bros

I was asked by Katie at the Kenexa Summit about training opportunities in social recruiting. Rather than reply individually, I thought I’d link to some people and resources here. Firstly, courses and workshops: Mike...
READ MORE - Social recruiting training
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KenexaEuro,
Recruitment,
Social media,
Social recruitment
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
by Franklin Bros

Indy replied to my recent post on engagement, and my question about why Kenexa’s, and other, engagement surveys don’t seem to pay as much attention as I’d expect to the social aspects of engagement. His view: “Who's right and...
READ MORE - Confidence, engagement and human capital
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Engagement,
HR measurement,
KenexaEuro
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Friday, May 28, 2010
by Franklin Bros

Strategic HCM is included in Evan Carmichael (the Internet's #1 resource for small business motivation and strategies) as a Top 50 Human Resources blog to watch (or read!) in 2010. I didn’t get my picture included unfortunately, unlike Sharlyn...
READ MORE - Top 50 blog
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Blogging
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
by Franklin Bros

My last but one post argued that despite Jack Wiley’s findings, the workplace is a very social environment, and we need to influence its sociology, if we want to maximise engagement and collaboration. And as I stated at the summit,...
READ MORE - Promotion (and salary) envy
Posted in:
KenexaEuro,
Reward,
Social capital,
Social media
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In my end-of-day keynote at Kenexa’s Euro Summit, I talked about how the social aspects of an organisation play an important role in influencing the engagement levels of employees. I referred in particular to some of: Daniel...
READ MORE - Social engagement – fact or fiction?
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Engagement,
Events,
KenexaEuro,
Social capital
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
by Franklin Bros

I told attendees at Kenexa’s European summit that I’d provide them with the links I used in my presentation on social media, HR, engagement and collaboration. So here you go: Social HR / HR 2.0 (we focused on recruitment...
READ MORE - Kenexa Euro conference presentation
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Collaboration,
Engagement,
Events,
KenexaEuro,
Social capital,
Social media
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
by Franklin Bros

Tomorrow I’m going to be keynoting at Kenexa’s European Summit.
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Events,
KenexaEuro,
Podcasting,
Presentation
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
by Franklin Bros

Strategic HCM is back in the Fistful of Talent blog power rankings (v7.0). Congrats to all the other blogs on the list. And thanks once again to the Jessica, Kris and the FoT team. Technorati Tags: Fistful of Talent,talent...
READ MORE - Top 25 blog
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Blogging
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Friday, May 14, 2010
by Franklin Bros

One of the British government’s first actions in power was to agree to 5% salary reductions. This could very easily be a sign of things to come, particularly in the UK’s public sector, where I suspect the cuts won’t come quite so...
READ MORE - 5% cuts all round
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Events,
Reward,
UK government policy
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Earlier in the week I asked HRevolution: What’s next? My second answer to this question deals with the session at the end of HRevolution (#HRevolution): how do we extend the conversation out of the echo chamber? I think it’s an...
READ MORE - HR – evolving and connecting…
Posted in:
Events,
Learning,
Networks,
Social learning,
Social media,
Social networks
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
by Franklin Bros

I commented on an excellent post by Mervyn Dinnen, reflecting on social learning at HRevolution, yesterday. Mervyn asks: “Maybe if we are to get maximum benefit from Social Learning, especially from our unconferences, networking...
READ MORE - Is social learning team learning?
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Connecting HR,
Learning,
Social learning,
Teams
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
by Franklin Bros
Posted in:
Employer brand,
Social media
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
by Franklin Bros

Most of this blog’s readers live in the US, but for the benefit of those readers in the UK (who perhaps don’t read all the US HR blogs, or the recruitment focused ones of Mervyn Dinnen and Bill Boorman in the UK), there was been...
READ MORE - HRevolution: What’s next?
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Events
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Monday, May 10, 2010
by Franklin Bros
Posted in:
Employer brand,
Events,
HCM technology
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
by Franklin Bros

I’m working at home today, catching up on work after having a bit of time off with a bad cold. And I just noticed (really!) that this blog’s hit the 100 thousand reader mark (in terms of unique visits). Not great, as I’m sure...
READ MORE - 100,000 visits
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Blogging
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
by Franklin Bros

I was just being a participant, albeit a fairly active one, on the second day of informatology. The choice was between some fairly traditional presentations by Great Places to Work, Nick Shackleton-Jones on video production...
READ MORE - More more social learning at informatology
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Events,
informatology10,
Learning,
Social learning,
Social media
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Monday, May 3, 2010
by Franklin Bros

As well as speaking at informatology, I also chaired an ‘unconference’* session consisting of pecha kucha presentations (a series of 20 slides, each auto-forwarded after 20 seconds). I thought it went well – and certainly found...
READ MORE - Pecha Kucha at informatology
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Events,
informatology10
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
by Franklin Bros

Other social learning case studies (see my previous post on Google) from informatology included: Tiina Paju-Pomfret on using social media in a learning context at BUPA. BUPA’s learning system, BUPA Live, allow Bupa staff...
READ MORE - More social learning at informatology
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Events,
informatology10,
Learning,
Social learning,
Social media
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