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Social Taxonomies: Tagging versus Crowd Metrics
Read more: Social Taxonomies: Tagging versus Crowd MetricsEvery now and then, I’m parked at a mall, convention center, airport, and I ask myself, “now where did I park my car? OK, so I don’t lose my car that often, but on occasion it happens. OK, I’m not…
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Vurv 4.0
Ok – I admit it. I still hate the rebranded name, but they are still one of the leaders in talent. In October at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, they announced their 4.0 release. It has some nice features,…
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Happy Cows Come From California
Where I live, the California Cheese people have an advertising campaign (I assume in competition with Wisconsin) that show miserable cows in the midst of blizzards followed by “happy” cows basking in the sun, almost frolicking in the California sunshine. …
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2007 HR Technology Conference In Non-Review
I’m writing this one in response to Jason Corsello’s conference in review post. Mine however, is a non-review since I was not there. This kills me as I was registered, had a hotel room and everything, but was distracted at…
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Workstream Update
Last week at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, Workstream released their newest 7.0 version of their talent management suite. While I have not seen a demo of the product live yet, this promises to be one of the most…
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The Internet in 2020
The Pew Internet and American Life Project’s survey of technology professionals to evaluate what the internet might look like in the year 2020 yielded some interesting (selected) results with my commentary: The deployment of a global network: A majority of…
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Your Workforce Bench Strength
Jason Corsello has one of the most effective illustrations of workforce depth that I’ve seen. Every NFL team has a depth chart. Most are listed on their team’s website including the New England Patriots here. Every position on the team…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 9
Grow leaders who thoroughly understand the work, live the philosophy, and teach it to others. A succession plan is nice. You in HR get to figure out how to grow your successors and shape their future. But if your current…
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Closing the Floodgates: Retaining Senior Talent When the CEO Leaves
We’ve all seen it. A CEO leaves the organization and takes half of the senior management with him/her to their next gig. Then the new CEO comes in and brings in his/her team, and lets go of the rest of…
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How Social Networking Will End
Colin Kingsbury wrote an interesting piece about the end of social networking (I’ve borrowed the title to his post as I’m getting much too lazy these days). He writes: Just to recap, Harry joined Facebook, and attempted to invite his…
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The Truth Behind Asia’s Talent Markets
You’ll never hear me contesting the idea that Asian talent markets are ripe to be the major force in the world economy. After all, when you have half the world’s population, it’s just logical to think you should eventually command…