(Via Doc Searls, via Cameron Reilly). An Iranian, Hossien Derakshan, ended up being kicked out of the US because the border patrol officer Googled his name, finds his blog, is not with the content so takes him in for questioning. During the questioning they find a magazine with a NY address and to cut aContinue reading “Googling can get you in trouble”
Category Archives: HR Management
Emails tells little of Telstra sackings
Telstra has shown how not to communicate with your employees during a downsizing process. (From the IntranetBlog)
Collaborative Information Technologies
Well last night was the first solo event for the AHRI Victorian HRIS SIG, and it was a success! We have 40 people (for 40 seats) turn up and listen to Glen Rabie from Yellowfin and Lyndal Bradilovic from Corrs Chambers Westgarth provide us with a fascinating look at principles of information collaboration and specificsContinue reading “Collaborative Information Technologies”
Is your vendor certified?
With the HR-XML organisation announcing over a dozen new certifications under the HR-XML program “HR-Certify” users of HR technology need to begin to take note of if their vendor is on the list and if not why not. HRcertify.org allows users of technology to check to see if their vendor (or proposed vendor) is certifiedContinue reading “Is your vendor certified?”
The HR Analyst Blog
Dub Dubs points to Jason Corsello’s blog The HR Analyst Blog. Jason is an analyst from the Yankee Group looking at HR software, services and outsourcing trends and looking at Jason’s background and reading though his posts this will be another blog for my reader.
Organisations that influence
While I was out for a walk on Sunday morning I caught up on some listening, one of the shows I listened to was Episode 19 of the Cranky Middle Manager from The Podcast Network. During this show Wayne interviews Gary Neilson about his new book, “Results”, they talk about 7 types of organisations andContinue reading “Organisations that influence”
Interviews
Over the last couple of months I have been interviewed twice by mainstream media on blogging and HR. First was by Jean-Paul Pelosi from Human Capital looking at how blogging is finding its way into the corporate world and whether the trend should concern HR and business leaders. Jean-Paul also interviewed Richard Giles, Cameron Reilly,Continue reading “Interviews”
A culture for collaboration
In the comments of my last post Regina Miller points to her posts at Corante’s Future Tense on creating a culture for collaboration where she extends some of the ideas and thoughts from Nancy White on collaboration with Web 2.0 tools. Nancy tries to dispel the myth of “effortless collaboration”, which is what the marketingContinue reading “A culture for collaboration”
Into the grey zone
Leon Gettler from Management Line posted a couple of days ago about the grey zone in organisations ie the things you make for personal use while on company time and which companies secretly endorse. This is an interesting dilemma. How does the HR profession react, while the issue is not new people have been callingContinue reading “Into the grey zone”
Workforce analytics event
A bit of cross promotion. The AHRI Victorian HRIS Special Interest Group will be holding an evening case study on 10th November covering understanding and developing business information solutions through collaborative technologies. We will be having two speakers Glen Gabie from Yellowfin Solutions and Lyndall Bradilovic of Corrs Chambers Westgarth. Should be an interesting nightContinue reading “Workforce analytics event”
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