He once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels.
He co-chairs the HR Technology Conference just because he can.
You can see his charisma from space.
His charisma compels people to write blog posts about the HR Technology Conference.
His business card just says, “I’ll call you.”
His tacos refuse to fall from the shell.
His personality is so magnetic, he is unable to carry credit cards.
Even his enemies list him as their emergency contact number.
He is so generous that by using Promotion Code INFOBOX11you get $500 off the conference rack rate.
He once engaged in a staring contest with a fish and won:
This sure sounds like Bill Kutik to me but let’s talk about more pressing matters.
This year is the 14th annual conference and Bill tells me it’s going to be the largest and most exciting yet with an incredible, educational and entertaining speaker line-up. Speaking of speaker line-up, I will be participating again on the Second Annual Social Media Panel where my cohorts will be tackling all your sticky social media deployment questions (in an incredible, educational and entertaining way of course). So for goodness sakes don’t miss our session. But wait, there’s more. Don’t miss the Great Technology Debate between Naomi Bloom and Jason Averbook, the Expert Discussions, the public debut of the 14th annual CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey by Lexy Martin and the always popular Awesome New Technologies for HR. Oh and don’t forget to bring comfortable shoes to walk the expo floor where you can get hands-on demonstrations and one-on-one Q&A from tons and tons of vendors. All this can be yours for $500 off the conference rack rate by using promo code INFOBOX11 (all caps).
Got an HR Technology question or a problem? Everyone you need to know to answer your question or solve your problem will be there. Did I mention that all your favorite HR Technology Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, BeKnown, BranchOut and Google+ peeps will be at the conference? Frankly you can’t afford not to be there. As I said in my post-conference blog post from last year:
“I met CEOs, HR Bloggers, Industry Titans, Consultants, HR Professionals and Techies. I can’t think of any other conference where you have such easy access to such a diverse group of people.”
If you still need more information, you can download the PDF of the full conference brochure, read the post-conference blog posts from last year’s conference or forget all that and just take my word. I’m trustworthy. Right? Don’t forget my promo code of INFOBOX11 (all caps) to get $500 off the rack rate of $1,795. But don’t wait as this promo code expires on September 19th. If I still have not convinced you that you must register this very instant, here are 10 more reasons to attend the conference presented by Bill Kutik:
Go register now while I open a nice cold bottle of Dos Equis and ponder The Most Interesting Man In The World … Bill Kutik … the HR Technology Conference.
Many companies have formal mentoring programs. These programs help employees find a mentor that can advise them on their career and provide some guidelines for both the employee and the mentor. Some people however do not think they have the skills or the time to be a mentor. The thought of participating in a formal mentoring program is too overwhelming. So let’s put aside the formal mentoring program and talk about a way you can do informal mentoring.
Many of us work in a cubicle existence and actually cubicles are way more conducive to informal mentoring than being in an office. Come on now, don’t deny that you “accidentally” overhear many of the conversations that goes on around you. It’s okay. For informal mentoring use the power of overheard conversations to your advantage. We all can’t be an expert in everything and my guess is you have knowledge about something your cube neighbors don’t have. Since you are listening in to their phone calls and cubicle conversations anyway, when you hear something that you know you can provide helpful information on, step up to the plate and offer your knowledge. That’s what I call cubicle mentoring.
I hope you all had some fun reading my HRevolution spoof-ish blog post hosted over at Paul Smith’s blog Welcome To The Occupation yesterday. I thought I would actually get serious (who knew that was possible) and write my actual thoughts about HRevolution 2011.
Last year’s HRevolution in Chicago was great except that as a tech person it was missing something near and dear to me. It was missing a lot of HR Technology talk. I wrote a blog post about it called HRevolution 2010 – What happened to the Tech Talk. This year I saw some progress. Not mind blowing let’s talk about the pros and cons of Best of Breed versus Suite or SaaS versus On-Premise type of progress but nonetheless progress.
Let’s first take a look at the Sponsors: Monster, Pinstripe, Ceridian, Aquire, SHRM and PeopleMatter. There are some serious tech chops to a couple of these vendors. There were no hard sells from the Vendors but their presence helped establish some tech credentials to the conference. Oh and thanks to all the sponsors who helped keep the conference costs at a minimum level for the attendees. You rock.
Moving on to the keynote, we had the CHRO of Kimberly Clark, Liz Gottung, mention during her keynote that a pillar of her global HR plan was the global implementation of Workday. I looked around the room as Liz talked about Workday and watched people’s faces. To my surprise it was clear that many people knew about Workday. Last year, it seemed like people only knew about Abra and Taleo.
As for the sessions, there were several technology specific sessions. Josh LeTourneau led an uber techie session on Social Network Analysis. I can’t do it justice to explain it so you will just have to head over to his website to learn more about it. Craig Fisher showed us a bucketful of tools in his Recruiting: Cool Tools and More session such as Crowdbooster, thesocialCV.com and BizzBizz. Craig also showed us how to stalk potential candidates using FourSquare and Twitter. You had to be there to watch some of the people in the room become a bit uncomfortable with the idea.
Finally, I had several conversations with various people about HR Technology throughout the day. Great conversations actually.
Just like last year there was interest in Social Media technology and Mobile technology. One didn’t need to actually talk about mobile you just needed to look around the conference to see a significant showing of iPad’s. Speaking of iPad’s, after winning the iPad drawing from Monster last year I was somewhat relieved to not win this year’s Monster drawing for the iPad 2 as I figured I might get in trouble with the attendees if I won 2 years in a row. Social Media and Mobile aside there were definitely more conversation and interest in technology this year. It’s a bit of a slow burn but since the next HRevolution will be in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay (using the same meeting rooms) as the HR Technology Conference & Expo, I am hoping for an even better showing in HR Tech Talk.
Thanks again to Crystal, Ben, Steve and Trish for a fantastic conference and for making me the unofficial Wi-Fi guy.
Heeeees Baaaaaaaack. Bet you thought I had abandoned my blog. Let’s not use such a strong word as abandon. How about hiatus or leave of absence or long vacation. It’s been a whirlwind crazy couple of months but don’t worry, I didn’t forget you all. To ease you back into my blog posts I thought I would write about the HRevolution conference I attended on April 30th. I didn’t want you all to freak out having to read so many words on my blog after my hiatus so I hacked into Paul Smith’s blog since he doesn’t know WordPress from WordStar and left my true thoughts about Paul and the conference on his Welcome To The Occupation blog. So go click that link just to the left of prior period thingy.
I’ll be back soon with some delicious blog posts of my own.
I was following the tweets from the Social Recruiting Summit when I came across this profound tweet from @ewmonster: Such amazing insight in less that 140 characters that I felt compelled to share it with you all. Oh and if you want to follow all the tweets from the Social Recruiting Summit you can follow [...]
I read the tweets coming from the Workday Technology Summit on August 23 and was surprised. A couple of the analysts seemed to suggest that Workday should stop talking about its SaaS Multi-Tenant technology approach and focus instead on the business value of the Workday application when they are talking to customers. While that might [...]
I have read a number of articles and blog posts recently that implore HR leaders to forgo traditional HR Metrics reporting and jump right into providing HR metrics data that tie directly into the metrics and dashboards of the business itself and not just HR. This is a great recommendation for companies who have already [...]
Yes I know I am very late in blogging about my thoughts on HR Technology at HRevolution 2010. I have been staring at this blog post for weeks trying to figure out what to say. The problem is that I am trying to write about something that well…didn’t happen so I’m giving up and finally [...]
I’m currently sitting on a plane heading from Portland to Denver. The person in front of me has reclined their seat leaving me no room to use my laptop. Being a good tech guy, I pulled out the iPad I won at HRevolution and am typing this out using the iPad WordPress App. Okay, Okay, [...]
Guess what? The rumor on the street is that HR leads the industry in using the Software As A Service (SaaS) delivery model. Surveys say that customers still prefer best-of-breed solutions over integrated solutions so that means more HR applications instead of less. Guess what also is true about many of these SaaS applications? They [...]
But wait, there’s more. Don’t miss the Great Technology Debate between Naomi Bloom and Jason Averbook, the Expert Discussions, the public debut of the 14th annual CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey by Lexy Martin and the always popular Awesome New Technologies for HR. Oh and don’t forget to bring comfortable shoes to walk the expo floor where you can get hands-on demonstrations and one-on-one Q&A from tons and tons of vendors. All this can be yours for $500 off the conference rack rate by using promo code INFOBOX11 (all caps).
