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Crisis Management Strategy for Employee Social Media

Social Media Crisis Management Strategy

Social Media and Your Crisis Management Strategy I’ve long said that social media changes everything especially in the context of work and the employment world.  Human Resource professionals, as well as CEOs can no longer travel from location to location to speak individually with employees who are being laid off.  Company announcements, lay offs, terminations, […]

US Social Media by the Numbers – May 2012

How US Time is Spent on Social Media

How Can, Do, & Should HR and Recruiters Use Social Media? I find myself finishing up my social media presentation for the Annual SHRM2012 Conference where I’m going to be speaking twice.  The first, Carrie Corbin (@thealphafemme) and myself will be presenting our Social Media 101 Workshop on Sunday, June 24th from 8:00 AM-12:00 PM […]

Grooming Your Social Talent Community with Membership

How to Build & Grow Your Talent Community Membership

This is the continuation of a four part series on talent communities.  In Part 1, I discussed the four basic pillars for success when it comes to a talent community.  Part 2 talks about the content hub and how blogs, conversations, and community engagement can help grow and build a talent community.  Building Community Members […]

Recruiting & Hiring on Twitter, Facebook, & LinkedIn by Country

Hiring & Recruiting on Social Media

As we enter a more globalized economy, managers and their scope of responsibility has also grown.  And increasingly, manager’s are responsible for employees in more than one country than where they in fact live.  The global economy presents a challenge for managers as they learn the cultural norms of their employees, employment laws, and expectations in this […]

4 Essentials of Talent Communities: The Content Hub

Keeping the Talent in your Talent Community Interested

This is Part 2 of a 4 part series on Talent Communities.  In Part 1, we discussed that Talent Communities have  four basic pillars for success:  commitment, strategy, content, and membership… it’s as simple as that.  Yet its simplicity is somewhat duplicitous as what comprises each pillar is complex.  What’s the saying… the devil’s in the […]

4 Essential Pillars of a Talent Community

Guidelines on Making your Talent Community a Success

The Buzz About Online Networks & Talent Communities “There’s a lot of buzz on Talent Communities in the HR world right now.”  It seems like that’s something that’s heard at least a couple of times a day and it’s true, there IS a lot of buzz out there.  Everybody wants to have a voice in the conversation because of […]