Reviews: The Future The research for the Five Scenarios project is sponsored by Pinstripe Talent. (We could still use an additional sponsor, please check in with me). As a part of the project, I’ve been digging into lots of ideas about the coming years. Right now, there are a number of interesting books that lay [...]
HRMarketer: Buyers’ Guide Aptos, California is a small beach village, just south of the college town of Santa Cruz. Nestled in a tiny valley right on the water, Aptos would be a bad place to be in a Tsunami. The valley is about three blocks wide and seven deep. It opens like an inverted funnel [...]
Infohrm II: Workforce Planning Last week’s piece on Infohrm was the first of three. I’ve been having a great conversation blended with demos. The company, which has roots in Australia and in Washington, DC, is an interesting amalgam. Part of what they do is provide software in a classic SaaS (Software as a Service) subscription [...]
Infohrm 1: Metrics Standards On my desk is one of the most amazing pieces of HR work I’ve ever run across. At 600 pages, the spiral bound book is a ream of paper devoted to the documentation of HR Metrics.”The Metrics Standard: Establishing Standards for Core Human Capital Measures” is a three year old labor [...]
100104 Zeo I got a ZEO for Christmas. Billed as a ‘sleep coach’, the product is the tip of the iceberg in the next wave of consumer goods. Zeo measures and analyzes your sleep patterns with the general idea that one can take charge of one’s nocturnal productivity. You wear a headband that wirelessly interacts [...]
Traackr At the end of last week, we started talking about the computer generated Top 25 Digital HR Influencer’s list. We’ll be releasing it on Thursday, noon pacific. It will be a part of the launch of our new periodical, the HRExaminer. We built the list in partnership with Traackr. The Boston based firm is [...]
Jobvite There are a ton of companies moving into the use of social media for recruiting. None are as advanced and focused as Jobvite. The Burlingame, CA startup, is the industry leader in the development of innovation and functionality in Social Recruiting. The company began its life as a referral driven Applicant Tracking System. As [...]
Tungle For the past six months, I’ve been using Tungle to schedule and coordinate meetings. The logistics associated with trying to work out schedule details are a time sink. It’s hard, when you do things manually, to guarantee that everyone ends up on the same page. Tungle works well as either a plugin for Outlook [...]
Evernote About 90 days ago, Mike Mayeux (at Novotus) suggested that I give Evernote a try. Imagine a filing cabinet into which you can fling tagged materials and then retrieve them when necessary. That’s Evernote. The information that I deal with comes in two basic varieties: material I’ve created and stuff I get from other [...]
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