XpertHR HR and Social Media conference

      I’m also going to be chairing the XpertHR HR and Social Media Conference in London on Thursday 2 December 2010. By attending this conference, you will: Learn strategies to engage with and promote social media within your...
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Social Recruiting conference

     ll be doing my online recruiting bit at the Social Recruiting summit in London on 30th November.   It looks like a great agenda, with speakers from Germany, Spain and the Netherlands as well as the UK: Welcome and Introduction...
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Top influential online recruiter?

     I’ve been identified as #8 in John Sumer’s / HRExaminer’s list of top 25 influential online recruiters (v2)  (only one of of three people – with Bill Boorman and Peter Gold – from the UK). I was delighted to be identified as...
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Unconferences: Social vs Structure

     We’re still getting lots of great feedback on last week’s Connecting HR unconference (CHRU).  However, I want to respond to the small amount of criticism we received about there being too much structure and organisation. I...
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HR Innovation

  It’s taken me a while to post on it, partly because of CHRU last week, and partly because I’m so backlogged with blogging (backbloggged?). But I recently presented on an excellent event at Roffey focused on innovation and chaired by MOK from...
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More on social influencers

  One of the things we talked about at the Connecting HR unconference was who are the social influencers? – the people who are influencing UK HR through social means in the new social world, rather than just through hierarchical power, as in the...
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CHRU!

     Last Thursday was ‘CHRU’, the Connecting HR Unconference.  And what a great day it was! You can learn about the views of many of the people attending the event in their blog posts: Abi Signiorelli Will Cleare Callum...
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Connecting HR, the Movie

  So, we’re nearly there – the UK’s first unconference takes place on Thursday.
And then I should be able to get back to blogging…   If you are, or are still thinking of coming, then check out the introductory video:     Technorati... READ MORE - Connecting HR, the Movie

Blogging and Unconferencing – the HR Connection

     I wrote this article for an HR magazine to publicise Connecting HR, but it was (understandably) seen to be too promotional. So I thought I’d run it here instead:   When I started blogging three years ago, there were just...
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The New Social Influencers

     I’ve had this article published in HR Magazine to support the upcoming Connecting HR unconference, and also in response to the magazine’s list of UK HR influencers which I thought was total rubbish, to be frank (eg including Dave...
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