Over the weekend Techcrunch posted about the layoffs traking place due to the economic downturn. There are two main themes in the post; first some of the layoffs are clearing out of dead wood and the other being it is hard to keep layoffs a secret when everyone is a publisher. To the first point.Continue reading “Tips for laying off employees in a social media world”
Category Archives: Blogging
Slight service interruption
Over the last few days service on this site and several of my other sites has been less than perfect, downright poor for some of them. This has been due to several related factors. Firstly the performance of my previous hosting provider MD Webhosting and secondly the unavoidable service interruptions while moving hosting providers. IContinue reading “Slight service interruption”
June 23rd is a big day!
Today is a big day! My final official day of employment with Nortel, which means my noticed period started 1 month ago. At 10:30am I meet with HR to hand back all of the “corporate items” and move on. It is 4 years since I wrote my first blog post. That is 1,460 days worthContinue reading “June 23rd is a big day!”
Reader numbers mean a rethink
When I setup my blog several years ago I decided to use FeedBurner to manage my RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/myhrblog). There were several reasons for this decision the top two were portability and statistics. When I moved my blog to WordPress a good couple of years ago I kept my FeedBurner feed and put a linkContinue reading “Reader numbers mean a rethink”
101 Links about HR
Today I received an email directing me to a new list called “The HR Bible: 100 Articles Every Human Resources Pro Should Read“. Given at one point had grand plans of building a one stop shop of this information, I had to look. An initial scan over the titles provided we with a sense ofContinue reading “101 Links about HR”
Top 25 HR blogs
There must be something in the water cause here is a list of the Top 25 HR blogs, there is some cross over with the Top 100 list from yesterday, and a couple of new ones which were noticeably absent from the first list, eg The Human Capitalist by Jason Corsello.
Taking control of information overload
Something I have been struggling with for about 18 months is information overload, who hasn’t, especially with regard to email and RSS feeds and to a lesser extend podcasts. To date my method of coping has been to unsubscribe (I removed about 500 blog feeds) or ignore the stream of information (which I do withContinue reading “Taking control of information overload”
Listing of Top 100 HR blogs
Came across a list of the Top 100 HR blogs from back in September. An interesting read and well worth checking them out if you are looking to expand your feeds. A couple of thoughts. First it is good to see some of the older blogs (2 year +) there and a lot of newContinue reading “Listing of Top 100 HR blogs”
What’s with this Twitter thing?
I know many people just don’t get Twitter, even when it is explained to them, however given the growth of the tool there must be “Something about Twitter?” (From http://cogdogblog.com/2007/04/26/splj-20/) But what is it? Over the last week I have seen a few blog posts once again trying to sort out what it is andContinue reading “What’s with this Twitter thing?”
Twitter influence and follower growth
There are several classic cliché’s such as “money makes money” and “success breeds success” that basically mean the more you have of something the more you get. Normally I would dispute these concepts but I am starting to question my personal perspectives. Two things have happened to make this happen. Firstly I spent an hourContinue reading “Twitter influence and follower growth”
Michael Specht 