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Mobile Webinar for HR & Recruiting Approved for Strategic HRCI Credit

Mobile Recruiting In Human Resources, Recruitment and Employee Engagement

Mobile Recruiting In Human Resources, Recruitment and Employee Engagement I’m pretty stoked to report that my upcoming webinar, “Mobile the Next Big Thing in HR & Recruiting” has just been approved for 1 HRCI Strategic credit.  Yes, you read correctly, the webinar has been approved for a strategic HRCI credit.  Our webinar focuses on mobile […]

Community is for Suckers

The Essence of Communities

Building a community takes time, effort, a cause, and a little bit of crazy.  As human beings, we are forever social animals.  The concept of community is a foundation piece of social and cultural anthropology which aims to study and understand how cultural norms and relationships shape a person or a group’s social behavior.  Whether […]

NLRB Briefing Discusses Social Media Policies & Protected Activity

NLRB Insights into Social Media Policies

**January 25th, 2012 UPDATE.  While the information below is still important, the NLRB provided more insights into social media policies. You can download the second report here.   Employer policies should not be so sweeping that they prohibit the kinds of activity protected by federal labor law, such as the discussion of wages or working […]

Why People Follow & Unfollow You on Twitter

learn why people follow and unfollow you

It’s official.  I’m a infographic addict.  I absolutely love them.  They are colorful, interesting, and provide so much value for the user.  And earlier today, I came across an infographic that explains the why and how of the Twitterati (die hard Twitter users who are sometimes social media celebrities) and how they find the people […]

How to Create a QR Code on a Temporary Tattoo

Or Codes on Temporary Tatoos

As part of my mission in training and teaching people on how to leverage social media for their business including human resource professionals, I’m writing several foundation social media topics over time.  This is one of those posts for the ToolBox HR resource site.  A QR Code stands for Quick Response Code and is essentially a bar code that […]

Is Mobile & SEO Too Sexy for HR?

Session on Technology in HR

The mobile world is upon us.  Technology is king.  And yet your organization’s recruiting and HR teams are often the last one’s that are thought of as innovators in the mobile communication, recruiting, and SEO spaces.  What if I told you that you were wrong?  That your human resources, recruiting, and talent departments are doing […]