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The Future of Selling - Social Selling

In a similar vein to my last post this review presentation considers the impact of social media on how, to whom and where we sell our services. A good general introduction to the emerging discipline of "Social Selling". Read More...

Published 7 Feb 2012 5:03 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Presentation Skills, Web 2.0
The problem with Twitter.....

24 Reasons why Twitter sucks! After 2 years on Twitter I tend to agree.....sorry tech types Read More...

Published 20 Mar 2010 11:50 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Web 2.0, Social Networking
Snow way - Bad Weather 2.0

The UK, like many other parts of the globe, is in the grips of the worst cold snap pretty much ever recorded. This made me wonder what, if any, impact this would have on the economy in light of the supposed proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies. This...

Published 13 Jan 2010 11:59 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Change, Business, Employee Relations, Web 2.0, Work Ethic
Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber

Twitter and Facebook are very different beasts when it comes to improving your “ working memory “, which relates to “the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information in short-term memory.” Scottish researchers have...

Published 8 Sep 2009 5:32 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Web 2.0, Psychology
Please stop it I can't stand it anymore!

HR reports on Jackie Orme , CEO of the CIPD saying HR can no longer simply measure its success by good people management, but must focus on sustainable performance, innovation and leadership.. by attracting, "the brightest and best" Ok so I...

Published 26 Feb 2009 5:29 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: HR, HR 2.0, Web 2.0, CIPD
Why all HR departments need a blog

HR 2.0 is all about how to create meaning in the workplace and so promote organisational and personal excellence. Whilst the "2.0" is a bit cheesy , I first used it because I believe (and still believe ) that Web 2.0 technology represents a...

Published 3 Feb 2009 8:14 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: HR, Change, Business, HR 2.0, Web 2.0
SMS that is actually useful!

Organisations looking for ways to make messaging technology useful have finally come up with an idea that I actually think is helpful. Text message polling uses phone technology to gather opinion live from groups. This is a great idea and one that I really...

Published 13 Dec 2008 2:19 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Communications, Web 2.0, Tools
Happy colleagues just don't do it for "me"

Happiness is infectious but not it seems in the workplace reports some interesting research in the British media this week. The research found that: If a friend gets happier, you get happier. If a friend's friend gets happier, you get happier. If...

Published 10 Dec 2008 9:13 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Communications, Web 2.0, Networking
UKOUG 2008 Conference & Exhibition

I will be speaking tomorrow (as part of a double act with my good friend Marc Humphries) at the UKOUG 2008 Conference & Exhibition . The subject for the talk will be "Are you ready for Gen Y?". If you are interested/worried about talent...

Published 30 Nov 2008 6:57 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Presentation Skills, Web 2.0
The rise and rise of LinkedIn

Cheezhead writes that professional networking site LinkedIn , which is now 27 million members strong, has announced a partnership with financial news channel CNBC . LinkedIn plans on exchanging its community-generated content for CNBC’s articles, blogs...

Published 5 Sep 2008 7:27 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Web 2.0, LinkedIn
Five best to-do-list managers

As a recent convert to paper based "to-do" lists I was interested to read this article/poll by Lifehacker on what the best way to do "to-do" lists. For now, paper and pen seems to be winning the race.. As always Lifehacker gives some...

Published 1 Sep 2008 1:51 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Web 2.0, Tools
LinkedIn to Twitter

I have been using LinkedIn for a while now and added Twitter to my list of social networking services a few months ago. My preference at the moment is LinkedIn as it seems to provide me with much more interesting online relationships that Twitter. For...

Published 12 Aug 2008 5:05 PM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Web 2.0, LinkedIn, Blogging, Twitter
Carnival of HR hits the big 40

So here it is the 40 th Carnival of HR – and what a carnival. Topics this month range from talent, CSR , communications and diversity. Girls football even gets a mention! Enjoy the show and please pop over to the contributors blogs I promise you will...

Published 7 Aug 2008 10:45 AM by McArthur's Rant - Human Resources, Organisations and HR 2.0

Filed under: Communications, HR, Change, Business, Coaching, Inspiration, Web 2.0, Tools, Talent, Conversations, Blogging, CSR, Leadershape, Personal Effectiveness, Carnival of HR

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