Blogging

It’s probably long past time to write some definitions.  In fact, I’ve done this before, probably every time I write a post about Web 2.0. A few years ago, I said that Web 2.0 would not be on the radar screens of HR for a couple of years, and sure enough, the last couple...
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I’ve been away for a little while.  No, I have not been on vacation, or away from the country.  I’ve just not been writing.  I don’t know if other bloggers have this problem, but I don’t bother writing if I’m not “inspired.”  To be honest, I’ve faced this a few times in my career,...
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Can you believe it’s been five years?  I recently read my first post and actually thought it was an ok analysis of HRO vendors at the time.  Pretty funny to me how much things have changed, but also how much I’ve learned both through work and the blog.  I spent 2009 writing much less...
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I’m not sure how many of you noticed the NYT article a few months ago on MIT student bloggers. M.I.T.’s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to four hours a week, offer thoughts on anything that might interest a prospective student. Some offer advice on the application process and the institute’s...
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Since I figure the great majority of you are reading me on email, Google Reader or some other mechanism that allows you to never visit the site (I do it myself, certainly it’s not a criticism – lucky if I ever read an RSS feed on my PC instead of the blackberry), I thought...
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Thanks to all my readers, collaborators and mentors.  I made John Sumser’s list for the top 100 Influencers in HR.
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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been using MS Word to type my blog entries, then using the copy-paste function to get the text into systematcHR. Along with text, a simple copy-paste also brings an abundance of formatting with it, that the blog and most HTML readers will not read. This has cause...
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This is just a general announcement for those who may have taken talentism.com off their feed readers (like I did).  This is one of the smartest and thoughtful blogs in the blogosphere, and I’m so extremely peased he’s back after a too long sabatical.  For readers of systematicHR, if you like my blog, you’ll...
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Soul searching is always an interesting time.  Whether it’s deciding what priorities there are in your HR department as you attempt to polish off any remaining budget you have for 2008, knowing that little budget will exist in 2009, or if it’s something much simpler like deciding whether to continue a popular blog.  I’ve...
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That systematicHR has been dealing with various site issues.� We finally have access to our servers again, and will be up and running as soon as possible. Thanks! -Dubs
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On systematicHR’s third anniversary, I suppose it’s fitting to do a state of the blog. The basics are rather easy. Over 700 posts on a variety of topics in HR strategy and technology, and over 1700 comments. This is of course excluding the 250,000 spam comments that I so luckily have software and services...
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Thanks for reading this year.  systematicHR is coming around towards its 3rd anniversary on the web, and there are more readers than ever before.  I’ve never taken a break, even when on vacation, the site keeps plugging away.  However, this year I think I’ll take a pause for 3 weeks through the holidays.  I...
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The first installation of the HR Blog Power Ratings are out (by the HR Capitalist) and systematicHR came in at second on the list.  We never seem to win these things, but that’s ok.  systematicHR has a great readership and the simple fact that the “Power Ratings” indicates that we have content that the...
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Yup, my first post on the HR Technology Discussion Board was 2 years ago today and I’ve posted over 500 times since then. You have also written over 1000 comments. About 2000 of you read this site directly on a daily basis, and we’re syndicated on sites such as “The Industry Radar” where we...
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That was the headline that greeted me when I opened up my Atlanta Journal Constitution Business section last Thursday.  Right there below the fold.  Plain as day.  My heart began to race a bit.  Who could it be?  Equifax is big, certainly.  With a $5 billion market capitalization they could probably make a run...
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A lot has been written about the connection between low employee morale and stress.  In fact, Melissa Bushman even claims it to be  “The most common cause of low employee morale.” On the face of it, this sounds reasonable.  If I’m stressed at work, I’m probably not happy at work.  Take a deeper dive on...
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Do a Google search on “employee morale” and you will get “about 1,020,000 hits”.  Evidently, it’s a pretty hot topic!  Actually, after I went through all the million plus hits, I found that there are actually 748,639 non-duplicative hits.  Still quite a few, and definitely a hot topic.  I found out all kinds of...
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  The other day, I came across an interesting graph a client of mine had copied from a BusinessWeek article.  I’ve been trying to find it online, to no avail.  I found reference to it here, on another blog, NumericLife. Everyone has a boss to deal with When employees were polled to pick New...
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This is the list of 2006 articles that was most read. Thanks for your readership and I look forward to another year. 1. Sleepless Nights in HR parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 2. The Wrong HR Silos 3. HR Function Commoditization – The Future of HR 4. Hewitt’s Lessons Learned 5. PS...
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Michael Specht tagged me. I don’t usually do this stuff, but perhaps it is useful to let you know just a little bit about myself. It’s going into the middle of “15 days of Drucker” as my last post of the year. As an anonymous blogger, I’m having a hard time with this one,...
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