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You don’t really have a backup strategy

June 8, 2010

I bet you don’t really have a backup strategy for your personal workstations. Some of you probably do some sort of backups but peel back the top layer and it’s not really a full backup strategy. I don’t want to scare you but have looked outside recently? Earthquakes, Sinkholes, Hurricanes, Floods, Republicans, Democrats oh my. [...]

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HRevolution 2010 – Dirty Martinis and iPads

June 2, 2010

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, [...]

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Still Living In A Flat File Interface World

April 20, 2010

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 [...]

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A Fairly Simple Explanation of RSS

March 8, 2010

This guest post is authored by Ben Eubanks. Ben is an HR professional from Huntsville, AL. He lives much of his life online. Don’t believe it? Catch him on LinkedIn, Twitter, or via email. His blog, UpstartHR, is about many things, including human resources, leadership, and ninjas. If you’re not familiar with RSS, I have a [...]

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Carnival of HR Mardi Gras Edition

February 16, 2010

The Carnival of HR has landed right on the tail of Mardi Gras  so grab a Sazerac or Hurricane and some Jambalaya, pull up a chair and settle down for some fantastic blog posts. As you know, Mardi Gras is a downright fun celebration but sometimes people imbibe a few too many hurricanes and need [...]

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My Mobile Blog Reading Wish For 2010

February 7, 2010

As some of you know, I am a bit of a road warrior and a Mobile fanboy.  To keep on top of my blog reading, I often find myself reading my blog list on my iPhone.  In fact I even wrote a blog post about stealing time for Blog reading and Social Media.  Most of [...]

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Carnival of HR Hand Warmer Edition

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 [...]

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How to Steal Time for Social Media

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 [...]

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2010 HR Twitter Peeps Predictions

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 [...]

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My 2010 Predictions

December 31, 2009

Since @williamtincup over at Starr Tincup did not ask for my predictions for 2010, I guess I will have to blog about them right here on my shiny new WordPress Blog.  Since it is New Years Eve and my brain is now official mush for 2009, I could only come up with 5 (really lame) [...]

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