The New Social Influencers
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Franklin Bros
Publicising the article @HRMagazine asked Who are the new HR 'influencers' in the blogosphere? Which sort of suggests they didn’t actually read the article before publishing it, because what I tried to argue was that the new, social influencers are people who influence in a social way (through relationships), not just those that use social media. But anyway.
So who are these influencers?
Well, I’d suggest that the list (or un-list – read the article) should include people like:
- Gareth Jones for his work with me on Connecting HR
- Barry Sampson for Learning Camp (now incorporated within Connecting HR)
- Bill Boorman for Tru
- Marc Weedon for the management of his International HR linkedin group
- Mike Morrison for his support of the CIPD Members linkedin group (the UK’s largest online HR community)
- Steve Bridger for his role as the official CIPD community manager
- Natalia Alexandrou for some sterling CIPD tweeting in an organisation that quite frankly doesn’t get it
- (I think it’s all Gareth Jones’ fault – note the fact that Jackie Orme gave up tweeting after meeting him!)
- Graham Salisbury for his heavily commented blog
- Kevin Ball for his ‘adoption’ of the Connecting HR hashtag!
- Michael Carty for his focus on blogging at XpertHR
- Charlie Elise Duff for her support of social HR and social media
- Abi Signorelli for bringing audio podcasting to Communication and HR
- Jane Hart for her social learning tools
- Theo HRD for his growing reputation as the international man of HR mystery
- Nicholas Creswell for his global employment rebranding for Thomson Reuters
- Flora Marriott for unconferencing at Yell
- Jon Weedon for leading the socialisation of the Internal Communication profession
I suppose you could make a case for the inclusion of local CIPD group members, but I’m going to keep them off, largely because many of them don’t do much to grow community (there are probably a few exceptions – the local equivalents of Steve Browne in Ohio).
The really interesting thing about the above list is that most of these people are involved in Connecting HR!
This should make for a great unconference on Thursday, and I think provides justification for us taking on the role of identifying a new list of social, or maybe simply ‘real’, influencers at the unconference.
If you’re not at the event but you want to submit your suggestions for new influencers in UK HR, tweet us on Thursday 21st using the hashtags #chru #nihr.
You can also email khry5c-w91c6k@twittermail.com, also referring to #chru #nihr, and keep your message short!
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