Posts Tagged Social-Media
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Maryland Enacts Country’s First Social Media Password Law
Gov. Martin O’Malley, on May 2, 2012, signed S.B. 433, a bill prohibiting employers from requesting the social media passwords or accessing the social media accounts of prospective and current employees, making Maryland the first state to pass such a law. The new provision, which will take effect Oct. 1, 2012, bars…
May 8, 2012
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HR Tools and Tech: Jobvite
Jobvite, an innovative and handy tool for recruiters, taps social networks to distribute and target job openings, while tracking the real-time value of job placement ads. In order to promote open positions, make referrals and find qualified candidates, this app leverages social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn, to send…
May 1, 2012 | in Trends
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Gamification and Learning Management – Two Truths and a Lie
Employee engagement and participation in learning and development programs has always been a challenge. With the rapid development and deployment of new tools and technology in the workplace, though, there's more to be learned and mastered than ever. Leaders are now looking for methods to tackle this issue head-on,…
April 27, 2012 | in Trends
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Will a BYOD Policy W-O-R-K for You?
One of the most popular trends in the IT world right now is the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach, where employees use their own mobile device at work. Its another case of new technology creating new problems. Before implementing a BYOD policy, you need to weigh the risks against the cost benefits. …
April 13, 2012
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We Know Next Weekly Recap: April 9th-13th
In case you missed it, here’s what happened on We Know Next this week. Facebook itself reported that in the last few months it has “seen a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people’s Facebook profiles or…
April 13, 2012
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Study: Internet Changing Young People’s Thinking, Behavior
The brains of young people growing up “hyperconnected” to the Internet might be wired differently from those of their elders, suggests a recent survey of technology experts, who were split on whether the newfangled wiring is desirable. Researchers from the Pew Research Center and Elon University recently conducted…
April 12, 2012
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Potentially Illegal Practice of Demanding Passwords Criticized
Growing but still rare. That’s the way Laura Friedel, an attorney with Levenfeld Pearlstein in Chicago, would characterize private-sector employer requests for applicants’ or employees’ Facebook e-mail addresses and passwords. “Our clients are asking about it more, but few have implemented policies requiring applicants or…
April 9, 2012
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Top Five Ways to Think Beyond Employer Branding
It's called many things: employer or employment branding, recruitment marketing, talent attraction, talent marketing, etc. It's a largely misunderstood thing that is really just about what your company looks like as a prospective employer to job seekers. Wikipedia describes Employer Branding like this: That sounds like messaging and…
March 27, 2012 | in Trends
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Baseball has a new social media policy And it may be unlawful
The National Labor Relations Board stresses that employees must be able to discuss their jobs freely. The National Labor Relations Board, which helps administer the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, believes that social-media policies are overly broad if they unfairly restrict employees -- union or non-union…
March 26, 2012 | in Trends
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Executive Book Club: March 2012
How do organizations manage social media effectively? Every organization wants to implement social media, but it is difficult to create processes and mange employees to make this happen. The Social Media Management Handbook is geared toward helping you manage every step of the process required to…
March 21, 2012 | in Workplace
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Using LinkedIn Responsibly: References and Avatars
We all have a LinkedIn profile, right? With over 150 million members, and growing at the rate of two new users per second, it’s hard to imagine anyone not being on LinkedIn. It’s a great place to share your professional accomplishments. And, it’s a…
March 20, 2012 | in Trends
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Your Next Great HR Hire Is at SXSW
I am just back from the SXSW Interactive Conference where I spent time with tens of thousands of geeks, nerds, dorks, and techie wizards. Not everyone at the conference was a Gen Y hipster — although it felt that way. I was tremendously fortunate to meet amazing men and…
March 15, 2012 | in Trends
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Let’s Talk Social Media @ Work
Social media keeps changing. It’s not just Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Orkut, Bebo, Ning, Tumblr, Meetup, and Foursquare anymore. Now there’s Pinterest, Google+, Quora, Imgur, GetGlue, and Letterboxd. Tomorrow there’ll likely be some sparkly new network to drag your friends…
March 14, 2012 | in Trends
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#NextChat Recap: BYOD - Managing Devices for A Mobile Workforce
Smart phones, mobile sites and business applications continue to impact the way employees use technology at work. Many organizations are shifting away from company-issued devices and adopting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies, which allow employees to use the mobile technology they’re most familiar with. There's a…
March 8, 2012 | in Trends
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In HR? There’s an App for That
With more human resource professionals using mobile devices as their go-to communication tools, it stands to reason that there would be more HR applications or “apps” than ever before for business use anywhere, anytime. While most of these apps once were concentrated in the recruiting arena, in 2012 there…
March 7, 2012
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How to Use Social Media to Find a Job
A 67-year-old man was worried that his age would hurt his job search. So, says Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR, “he sent out a simple e-mail to five people and attached his resume. [The e-mail] read, ‘Hey, I’m looking for a job and here are four companies I…
March 2, 2012
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Texting Appears in Employment Litigation
Texts can resurface in employment law litigation, so employees should be trained to keep all of their communications, including texts, professional. All too often, employees think that their texting is personal, according to Christine Walters, MAS, J.D., SPHR, a consultant with FiveL Company in Westminster, Md., and author of…
February 29, 2012
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The Age of Digital – Creating a Better Work-Life Balance and Higher Productivity
We are entering a new digital era, an era in which people are connecting with content and with brands through multiple screens – through their PCs, TVs, smartphones, and tablets. 2011 marked an exciting year for the digital media industry and signaled an even more momentous year ahead with…
February 28, 2012 | in Trends
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HOOKING UP ON TWITTER (A CAUTIONARY TALE)
I begin this cautionary blog with a story. After the story, you’ll understand why I began the blog as I have. I wrote an article on holiday parties for Business Week. I discussed the risks, including too much alcohol consumption and sexual harassment. Of course, the…
February 27, 2012 | in Workplace
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BYOD or Bust - Managing Devices for a Mobile Workforce
Via smart phones, mobile sites, business applications and more, the consumerization of IT continues to impact the way employees use technology at work. Many organizations are shifting away from company-issued devices and adopting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies, which allow employees to use the mobile technology they’re…
February 23, 2012 | in Workplace
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Survey Findings: How Social Media Is Embedded in Business Strategy
This is part four of a series of SHRM surveys focusing on the use of social media in the workplace. The topics explored in the final part of this series include who is responsible for leading workplace social media activities, the percentage of organizations with staff dedicated to social media…
February 22, 2012
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#NextChat Success – A Recap of our Twitter Chat on Social Media
There’s no denying that social mediais changing the way we work. From its emergence in the recruitingsphere to the way it is redefining workplace culture and flexibility, organizations and HR professionals are quickly adapting and growingwith each and every innovative step that social media takes. As social media…
February 15, 2012 | in Trends
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Social Media Policies Slowly Catch On Worldwide
Be nice. Don’t pick fights. Own up to your mistakes. Treat others with respect and, above all, watch what you say. Sounds like advice your mom might give you—but it’s the crux of most social networking policies at companies around the globe. …
February 14, 2012
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Next Generation Leadership – Have You Talked to a Customer Today?
Did you talk to a customer today? Simple yes or no answer. According to Frank Pacetta (a hero of mine) and his Blueprint for Success a “no” gets the leader or manager (CEO especially) an immediate failing grade. {click through and take the rest…
February 6, 2012 | in Trends
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Social Media for HR and Recruiting
French novelist Alphonse Karr once wrote, “the more things change, the more things stay the same,” which might explain why this same phrase shows up in Zeppelin lyrics a century after Karr’s death. And nowhere is that more true than HR, which as a…
February 6, 2012 | in Workforce
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Social Networkers: A Special Breed
Many business leaders have long suspected that active social networkers are a breed apart from other employees. A new report looking at the state of business ethics in the U.S. supports that belief. The nonprofit Ethics Resource Center (ERC) says that corporate ethical behavior will likely get worse…
February 2, 2012 | in Workforce
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3 ways for HR to avoid unlawful, overbroad social-media policies
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board announced in this press release that it had issued a second social-media report to help provide further guidance to practitioners and human resource professionals. The social-media memo, a copy of which you can obtain here, covers 14 cases, half of which involve questions about…
January 30, 2012 | in Workplace
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Employee Use of Social Media: Laws Fail to Keep Pace with Technology
When considering workplace privacy rights in the age of Facebook and Twitter, “we are not walking on paths of concrete, we are walking on paths of shifting sand,” John Quirke, an attorney with Archer & Greiner in Haddonfield, N.J., told attendees March 14, 2011, at a session of the…
January 27, 2012
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4 HR Bartender Predictions for 2012
It’s that time of year again, when we sit around and try to predict what will happen in the months to come. I just read an article that 2012 could be the year of payback. Employees will really make those moves that have been predicted since 2009. …
January 27, 2012 | in Trends
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New Technologies, Apps Boost Social Media Recruitment Powers
As the use of social media as a recruiting tool matures, staffing and talent management companies are applying lessons learned and fine-tuning their social strategies to help close the still-considerable gap between hype and hiring results of these popular networks. These next-generation approaches go beyond creating LinkedIn or Facebook careers…
January 26, 2012
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SHRM Survey Shows HR Has Active Role in Social Media Policies
Social media was clearly among the hottest business topics of 2011, and the results of a survey released on Jan. 12, 2012, by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) shows that human resource professionals have an important role in helping employers deal with this red-hot issue. Approximately 40 percent of randomly selected…
January 25, 2012
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Former Employees Claim Ownership of Twitter Handles, LinkedIn Connections
Lawsuits over social media are on the rise as employers and former employees wrangle over who owns Twitter handles and followers as well as LinkedIn connections. The law is developing on these questions, according to Eric Meyer, an attorney with Dilworth Paxson LLP in Philadelphia. He recommended that…
January 25, 2012
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Social Media Policies: Promoting vs. Regulating Use
Fact: most employees occasionally use social media tools at work for personal reasons, anyway. Unsurprisingly, business leaders want guidelines in place for regulating employee use of social media outlets--and protecting against misuse--on personal and company accounts alike. Many 2012 corporate to-do lists include creating an official policy for regulating employees’…
January 24, 2012 | in Workplace
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Social Media in the Workplace Survey Findings
Part three of a series of SHRM survey findings that focused on the use of social media in the workplace, particularly by HR. Part three examines social media platforms utilized by organizations to reach external audiences and build relationships (e.g., current customers, potential customers, and/or potential employee). More…
January 24, 2012
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The Challenges and Rewards of Recruiting Gen Y
The first thing you should know about recruiting Generation Y? According to pioneering generational researchers William Strauss and Neil Howe, workers born between 1982-2000 actually prefer to be called Millennials. That nuance illustrates the essential element to recruiting and attracting the best Millennial talent -- effective communications that speak…
January 20, 2012 | in Workforce
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Experts: Flexible Workplaces Should Rely on Social Media
What does flexibility have to do with social media? Plenty. Social media can help employees stay engaged—particularly those who work remotely. That’s what conference attendees learned during a session at the inaugural Work-Life Focus: 2012 and Beyond Conference held recently in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the…
December 13, 2011
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How to Build a Social Recruiting Framework
When creating a social media recruitment strategy, there are 3 critical considerations every employer or talent organization must address directly and comprehensively. The good news is, you already know the answers to these crucial questions, and while unique to every company, recruiter and job opportunity, those answers provide a strategic,…
December 13, 2011 | in Trends
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Social Recruiting: Three Lessons Learned from the Trenches
When it comes to using social media websites for recruiting - what we call social recruiting - how far is too far? Beyond learning the hard way what works and what doesn’t, there are some best practices emerging to help recruiters know when they’ve pushed the…
December 2, 2011 | in Trends
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Five Recommendations to Power-Up Employee Communication Trending
How would you like to keep track of trending topics within your distributed workforce at any given moment in time? This valuable tool would give the chief human resource officer the ability to apprise the CEO of internal workforce trends. Important workforce and operational decisions could be made quickly…
November 24, 2011 | in Trends
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Pyrrhic Victory: Judge ok’s firing for Facebook post, but…
In September, a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ruled, for the first time, that an employer could legally fire an employee based on Facebook activity. In Karl Knauz Motors, Inc. d/b/a Knauz BMW and Robert Becker, the ALJ okayed a BMW dealership firing an employee…
November 23, 2011 | in Public Policy
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Just The Facts About Workplace Social Media
I’m captivated by infographics. They, in my mind are the preferred alternative to boring reports and bullet-filled craptastic powerpoint presentations. For me an infographic is a great way to explain a point of view or organize a group of interesting facts and data points designed to…
November 15, 2011 | in Trends
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Today’s Managers Must Be Connectors
By Shirley Davis and Lisa Horn, Co-Project Directors, SHRM’s Workplace Flexibility Initiative The first joint SHRM and Families and Work Institute work-life conference is next week in Washington, D.C. The conference — Work-Life Focus: 2012 and Beyond/Workplace Effectiveness Strategies that Work — promises to…
November 7, 2011 | in Workplace
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Employee Rants Against Company Strategy
The internet age is a scary place in a lot of ways related to talent, but I'll focus on one today - employee rants that are mistakenly posted to public sources or leaked out of a company and broadcast globally. I've posted a lot of those here…
November 2, 2011 | in Workforce
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What Does The C-Suite Want From HR?
I am a very lucky Human Resources professional. I began my career in the glamorous world of administration. I typed up timecards at a candy factory. I completed the VETS 100 and EE0-1 reports by hand. Yes, computers existed back in 1995. No, my employer saw no value in…
November 1, 2011 | in Workplace
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Player, Please: Gamification & Social Engagement
Lost in all the buzzwords and best practices about social media recruiting is a simple fact: it’s supposed to be fun. In the olden days of faxed resumes, form cover letters and cold calling, engaging talent could be a chore. But new methodologies have developed along…
October 25, 2011 | in Trends
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Experimentation and Discovery: How Science can Help you Transform HR
For being a profession with heavy detail and conformity requirements, I’ve always wondered why we aren’t better at using the rigor of science within our work in Human Resources. It would seem to me that the structure and process of the scientific method would appeal…
October 11, 2011 | in Workplace
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Modern Day HR: What Companies Should Be Doing on Social Networking Sites
The world of Human Resources is a weird place filled with contradictions, confusion, and cognitive dissonance. We tell our CHROs and SVPs to be more strategic and create a department of thought leadership and entrepreneurialism; however, we still ask our HR department to oversee personnel management, payroll, and compliance issues. …
September 29, 2011 | in Trends
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An Employer’s Response to a Social Media Nightmare
Earlier this year, a local teacher was suspended after her school learned about nasty comments on her personal blog concerning her students. And that story became national news. Now, word has it that the school is considering a social-media policy. Well, it's about time! Social-media policy? We don'…
September 23, 2011 | in Public Policy
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Generation Y Goes Directly to Source in Job Hunt
Employers in the U.S. looking to recruit members of Generation Y for their workforces might want to consider their organizations’ social media strategies and incentives, according to survey findings from 8,088 university students from the Class of 2011. For one, this generation—also known as Millennials and born from…
September 14, 2011
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Gender, Nationality Affect Gen Y’s Attitude Toward Mixing Social Media, Work
Women who are members of Generation Y are more hesitant about mixing their work and social media lives than their male counterparts, according to a new global survey. While that gap between male and female attitudes is consistent among those surveyed in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada,…
September 13, 2011
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Outside the Box Engagement Tools
If you’re doing the obvious stuff when it comes to social media recruiting or engagement (Facebook fan pages, branded Twitter account, blog, etc.), you’re fighting an uphill battle. It’s a crowded space out there: after all, if there’s a fundamental reason…
September 13, 2011 | in Trends
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SHRM Survey: Social Networking and Online Search Engines in Screening Job Candidates (part 2)
Part two of a series of SHRM survey findings that focused on the use of social media in the workplace, particularly by HR. These survey findings center on social networking websites and online search engines as a tool for screening potential job candidates. The data reveal that…
September 12, 2011
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SHRM Survey: Few Employers Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates
Although recent survey findings by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) indicated that a majority (56 percent) of employers are tapping Internet social networking sites to search for potential job candidates, results released by SHRM from the second phase of the survey show that a much smaller number of businesses…
September 1, 2011
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SHRM Poll: Social Networking Websites Popular as Employer Recruiting Tool
More than half of human resource professionals are tapping into social networking websites to look for potential job candidates, a significant increase from 2008, according to a poll report from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The poll report—SHRM Research Spotlight: Social Networking Websites and Staffing, released at…
August 15, 2011
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In-House Connections
Human resource professionals are adapting social media tools for internal use. These tools foster more-efficient communication with dispersed workers, have self-service features that free up HR staff members to focus on strategic issues, and allow employees to swap tips and experiences around topics such as wellness or 401(k) investments. Here…
August 15, 2011
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10 Business and HR Blogs Worth The Read
SHRM works hard to provide members with the best tools and resources for doing their jobs. In addition to trying to be as accessible as possible to our members, we’re all about learning from and sharing with others in the human resource and business space. From Harvard Business…
August 8, 2011 | in Trends
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Social Media Helps Recruit Talent
Social media allows businesses and individuals to capitalize on the phrase, “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” Social media has forced an evolution of how businesses recruit talent and how job seekers look for their next opportunity. From Monster and CareerBuilder to LinkedIn…
August 4, 2011 | in Trends
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Report: Social Media Can Disorient Employees
Many employees are caught in a communications vortex as they struggle to keep up with their e-mail and monitor social media, according to a new report, The New New Inbox—How E-mail and Social Media Changed Our Lives. The effect of all these channels of communication&mdash…
July 29, 2011
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Recruiting Strategies for Social Media
In the not so distant past, recruiters and staffing managers pored through resumes, posted on job boards and hosted expensive job fairs in top markets to find candidates and fill jobs. Now, they might interact with social network site users by posting a challenging technical question, then contact individuals who…
July 27, 2011
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Social Media’s Effect on Hiring Remains a Question Mark
While social media outlets appear to be changing the way employers identify and recruit job applicants, the impact and long-range implications of social media on staffing functions remain unclear. According to the 10th Annual Sources of Hire Study released by CareerXroads on March 17, 2011, more than 88 percent of employers…
July 26, 2011
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Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
There was a time when social media was cutting edge. Now it is mainstream. Case in point: Facebook has more than 500 million individual members worldwide. As with all communication, social media presents business benefits and legal risks. This article discusses four ways social media and HR have become inextricably intertwined:…
July 25, 2011
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Daniel Pink: Use More than Social Media to Engage Workers
CHICAGO—A “Blues Brothers” comedic skit helped, but American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) President and CEO Tony Bingham and opening keynoter Daniel Pink are the ones who really got the crowd jazzed during the ASTD 2010 International Conference & Exposition, which kicked off here officially in…
July 21, 2011
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Developing a Social Business Network
More employers are using social networking tools to enhance employee interaction. EMC Corp.’s social business network, called EMC/One, had been in place about a year when the economy turned sour. The developer of information infrastructure products was about to learn the value of a…
July 11, 2011
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More Companies Realize Business Opportunities Through Social Media
Improved engagement, turnover, brand visibility and credibility among clients are goals To kick-start the International Association of Business Communicators annual conference, John Santoro first cracked a semi-joke about himself. “I don’t Facebook. I don’t Twitter. I think this e-mail thing may catch…
July 11, 2011
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The New weknownext.com!
A little more than a year ago, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) launched We Know Next, our external campaign to help business leaders, policymakers and human resource professionals — and those who influence them — better understand today’s ever-changing workforce. We believe human resources…
June 21, 2011 | in Trends
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SHRM Research Spotlight: Social Networking Websites and Staffing
Social Networking Websites Gain in Popularity as an Employer Recruiting Tool More than half of human resource professionals (56 percent) use social networking websites to source potential job candidates, a significant increase from 2008 (34 percent), according to a new poll from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The poll …
June 21, 2011
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IBM Study: Global Hiring, Social Media Value Rising
More than 700 chief human resource officers (CHROs) and senior executives worldwide say the foundation of workforce investment is shifting and they are seeing more hiring in Europe and North America, according to a new IBM study released Oct. 12, 2010. Additionally, social networking is having a broader impact on a company&rsquo…
June 21, 2011
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Millenials: ‘Bathed in Bits’
An ardent defender of youth says they’re smart and collaborative—and will reshape the workplace. Best-selling author Don Tapscott says Millennials—those born between 1978 and 1997, whom he calls the “Net Generation”—are influencing the world of work through…
September 21, 2010
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