Following my recent rant about HR’s ignorance around the power of the social, and unstructured content – “all that crap on Facebook and twitter” to the as yet uninitiated – I figured it would be useful to share some specific examples. So, over the next few posts I’m going to feature three examples that are, in…
Now that I’m back in Blighty after attending both the HR Technology Conference in the US, and the HR Tech Europe Conference in Europe I’m just reflecting on what I saw. I found both buzzing experiences although here were a few stark differences between the two. Amsterdam was a sea of men in suits, a stock…
Ok that’s a bit harsh. Of course you still matter – to your loved ones and anyone else that may be dependent on you. I’ve no wish to kick a big hole in your self esteem! No, what I’m referring to is your position as a professional in the workplace or as a consumer and…
In years to come, when we look back and reflect on the impact of the social era, there will be a number of things that we will strongly identify with this period that changed the way we looked at the world, forever. And for me, one of those things will be transparency. If you are…
And as if by magic..! Literally two days after my previous post for the HRTechEurope blog entitled It’s Time to measure engagement in #realtime, this article appears talking about the new partnership between Yammer and Kanjoya Crane, which will provide yammer clients with real time sentiment analysis of their employee conversations. This is more significant…
If we strip away some of the hype and mystery surrounding social media and the emerging social technology landscape, you will see two core elements that in my view are the two fundamental building blocks: Real time communication and Collaboration Look around and you see these elements as key drivers in most of the emerging…
I recently spoke at a couple of CIPD branch meetings in Hatfield and Milton Keynes on the subject of Social Engagement and Collaboration. You can access my slides here if you would like to see them. As the middle of three speakers and in the company of an unexpectedly positive HR audience (!) I was…
