social media
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Collaboration, Communications, Data & Metrics, Engagement, Features, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, TalentHR, Twitter and Osama bin Laden
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Yeah – I’m going to write about this. I just finished watching Zero Dark Thirty on the plane, and I’m thinking back to that day. I remember landing in the Chicago airport, booting up my phone and checking Twitter. Scrolling…
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Blogging, Branding, HR Strategy, HR Strategy and Technology, Social, Social Talent, Talent, Talent Acquisition, Work LifeThe Permanent Record
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Perhaps it was because I’m Chinese American and my Chinese parents were rather crazed about education. I did graduate high school with a 4.2 GPA and considered myself an academic failure (still do in fact). My parents used to threaten…
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All Posts, Branding, Collaboration, Communications, Governance, HR Technology, Social, Social and Gamification, Social TalentSocial Trust, Authority and Contributorship
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There are three people who are pretty commonly in my car. They will go unnamed. One of them is pretty similar to me. She always knows where she is, which way is north, and can get around pretty well. The…
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The Cloud
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Seven years ago, we started talking about social media in HR. I remember this at a conference and nobody got it. In fact, pretty much all the HR people said that it was a bad idea, it was not for…
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Leveling the Playing Field
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I’ve always wondered about the benefits of doping in professional sports. Once, I read about a journalist who decided to dope just to find out if it really was that dramatic at providing performance increases, and not only was he…
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All Posts, Blogging, Change Management, Communications, Data & Metrics, Enterprise Solutions, Governance, HR Technology, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, Web 2.0Social Taxonomies: Tagging versus Crowd Metrics
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Every 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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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Social Media Panel
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I’ll admit. I’m devastated. Lexy Martin and Thomas Otter were both presenting at the same time as this session. Had I the option, I would have pulled a Hermione Granger Time Turner thing. You know where she goes back in…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Web 2.0Enterprise Digital Interactions
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I know we don’t need any more buzzwords, but at the same time, HR and corporate organizations really seem to hate calling their internal blog, wiki, networking and collaboration tools “Social” media. There is good reason for this as most…
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Branding, Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Web 2.0Enterprise Web 2.0 and Personal Brands
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I started systematicHR something like 5 years ago as a true weblog – a place where I could record my thoughts as I went through my daily reading and research. More than 5 years after my first blog post that…
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Going Too Far: Social Media Notifications
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but pretty much every time I receive a notification about farmville or gangster wars on Facebook, I pretty want to shoot the senders. If they are nieces or nephews, they get some…
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Measuring the Temperature of your Workforce
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For those of you who have read Dan Brown’s new book “The Lost Symbol” there is an interesting concept of measuring the temperature of a population. I’ll provide a quick couple of paragraphs, noting that it’s really not critical in…