From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Carnival of HR Hand Warmer Edition

by Michael Krupa on January 26, 2010

The latest Carnival of HR is up over at the Simply Lisa blog by Lisa Rosendahl.  This time the carnival is hosted in Central Minnesota and you know what that means: Get out your hand warmers and go read some great posts.

Here are a couple of posts that peaked my interest:

Kelly Mitton on 8 ways Gen Y can Impact HR

Paul Smith presents Fixing A Hole – HR’s responsibility to their Gay employee population

Trish McFarlane gives you some great tip on How to Simplify Your Social Media Life

I suppose I should plug my contribution to the Carnival in this post where I tell you how I Steal Time for Social Media

Big thanks to Lisa for pulling together a great Carnival with a fun winter theme.

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How to Steal Time for Social Media

by Michael Krupa on January 13, 2010

Recently, two of my favorite bloggers posted tips on how they handle social media overload.

Trish McFarlane wrote an excellent post on How To Simplify Your Social Media Life where she suggested you schedule time for social media and prioritize your access to social media sites.

Naomi Bloom also write an excellent post about her experiences with social media called Reflections Of A Digital Immigrant Gone Semi-Native: An Embarrassment Of Riches where she let us know she is going to set aside Facebook and limit the number twitter followers to keep from being overwhelmed.

I’d like to add on to these wonderful suggestions and offer up my own secret for keeping up with the firehose of social media information.   What’s my secret, you ask?  I steal…time. There, I said it.  I steal time. When I am sitting in a conference room waiting for a meeting to start, standing in line waiting to board an airplane, waiting for my mocha at the local coffee shop or walking across the office building, I steal that time and catch up on social media.  I’m sure by now you have figured out my secret weapon for stealing time and that weapon is my iPhone.  The iPhone has native applications for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and email and with mobile Safari and the Google Reader iPhone mobile website, I can breeze through my blog roll.  But wait there’s more.  The iPhone also has several native applications to manage your blog while on the go.  When I steal time for Twitter, my favorite application is TweetDeck.  With the iPhone TweetDeck application, I am able to automatically sync my TweetDeck groups between my desktop and iPhone.  When on the go and stealing time, being able to selectively view tweets via TweetDeck is a must for me. Did I mention that Google Reader mobile website for the iPhone is amazing?

Stuck on network other than AT&T? Hate the iPhone (for some inexplicable reason). Can’t be separated from your Blackberry or Android phone?  Never fear. So long as you use smart phone that has a fast 3G data connection with the ability to download native social media programs, you too can steal time.

Okay, let review.  YOU too can steal time for social media by:

  1. Acquiring a smart phone such as an iPhone, Android device, Palm Pre or Blackberry
  2. Downloading native Social Media applications for sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
  3. Downloading native applications to manage your Blog
  4. Configuring access to all your email accounts via the built in email application
  5. Bookmarking the mobile Google Reader site

Oh, one last thing.  I’m not going to go into any details here but you might want to read this blog post of mine about a particular place to steal time.

I know there are probably a ton of other ideas out there so please leave a comment and tell me how you steal time for social media.

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2010 HR Twitter Peeps Predictions

by Michael Krupa on January 4, 2010

Following on to my 2010 predictions blog post, I thought I might make some personal predictions for some of my HR Twitter peeps:

@SteveBoese will write one too many late night blog posts and will find himself inside the Squarespace server farm.

After battling a Windows Vista corrupt files issue all during the 2009 holiday break @thehrmaven will declare “if you can’t beat them, join them” and will become a Tech Support supervisor at Microsoft for Windows Vista.

@adowling will suffer a total hashtag breakdown and end up in a hashtag anonymous group where she will find that @TLColson is the group president. Unfortunately both will fall off the wagon and be kicked out when they are discovered whispering to each other during group meetings only in hashtags.

Looking to bring some order and discipline to his employee ranks, Dr. Evil hires @HR_Minion to be his Chief Operating Minion where she quickly convinces him to turn his back on his evil ways.

@beneubanks will evolve to pure energy, simultaneously posting to 40 blogs every day and publishing 12 books.

@billkutik will have to fly down to Fort Myers Florida for a personal intervention when @InFullBloomUS‘s latest blog post hits 100 pages and our brains explode.

The Federal Government will suddenly discover how influential @lisarosendahl really is and appoint her as Blogging Czar. Her first directive will be “Mr. Obama, tear down this firewall!”

@MisterScrubby finally asserts control over @lruettimann, changes her blog name to fakepunkrockhr.com and appoints @bncarvin chief comments moderator.

While dreaming after watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with her twins, @TrishMcFarlane discovers the secret of cloning and will show up at every 2010 HR event and conference.

Do you have some HR Twitter Peep Predictions you want to share?  Come on now, you know you do.  Please add your predictions in the comments.

Wait, I wonder if this should have been a Google Wave instead.  Oh, never mind.

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HR Happy Hour – Happy New Year Show

by Michael Krupa on January 1, 2010

HR Happy Hour – Episode 24 – ‘HR Happy New Year’

Well, well, well. That was quite an HR Happy Hour last night.  For the 2 people that read my blog that were NOT listening in live last night, here is the recording of last nights show.

It was wild and crazy and we all got a good belly laugh at the antics.  And yes we did find out that Laurie Ruettimann’s husband, Ken,  really does exist and despite Steve’s probing he didn’t crack at the pressure to reveal embarrassing things about Laurie.  As usual Steve and Shauna did a fantastic job as co-hosts and Shauna even got to push the buttons on the blogtalk radio control panel. Go Shauna.

Don’t forget to read all the back channel tweets for #HRHappyHour.  They are hilarious all by themselves.  Happy New Year and welcome to 2010.

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