HRUndercover

The HRUndercover initiative was launched in 2009 by Suzanne Elshult and Shan Koenig, both seasoned human resources executives who are brilliant masterminds in creating this blog. A blog that collects candid stories from HR professionals in the workplace and then stories are submitted anonymously in a secured area of this site, and to date, cover the spectrum from greed, envy, and lust to stories of heart and social responsibility…. http://hrundercover.com

 

This is one of the most original HR blogs out there and best piece! It’s turning HR which usually all about rules and policies, but giving back the “Human” part back into “ Human Resources. We are all need a place to express, improve, laugh, learn, and GOD a place to vent.

Why participate? Well why not? Come on …. you know you want too….. no one will ever know J

 

1.       It feels so good to get it off your chest, without compromising confidentiality. It’s cathartic, really!

2.       We know HR people sometimes have to deal with situations more checkered than a red and   white table cloth, and some just as tacky. Ahh, but those situations do make HR work more interesting - don’t you think?

3.       We also know there are people out there making a real difference for the good. We love hearing those stories. They represent hope for the future.

4.       Become a part of a better future workplace by being a part of a community that is committed to learning from the past and propelling positive change. Yes we can.

***Note – when you submit a story, you remain anonymous. While we want true stories, we do not want real names of companies or people or any information that would compromise the anonymity of those involved.

 

BE SURE TO FOLLOW THEM ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/HRUndercover

 

Posted via email from Kay Kelison's Digital-Log

WHY GIVE TWITTER A PERSONAL TOUCH

“I Didn’t Give It My Personal Touch” -yellow

Personalize your profiles on all your Social Networks, it really for your followers who can get a glimpse of your tastes by viewing your profile! It’s VITAL to builds trust, loyalty and engagement with your followers.

* Upload your picture

* Say something about you in one line bio (160 or less)

* Update your location, time zone

* Link your about page to a “more info” url or if you have a TWIITTER

Use custom background if you are not good with designing consider using one of this services Twitterbacks <http://www.twitterbacks.com/> , Twitbacks <http://www.twitbacks.com/> , or TwitterImage <http://www.twitterimage.com/>

“Why Leverage My Other Social Networking Profiles”-yellow

If you have other social profiles like LinkedIn, MySpace or Facebook, use it to promote your Twitter profile, add it to your email and forum signature, if you do have blog link to your Twitter from about and contact page, add your Twitter link in your subscriber widget.

“I Follow Big-shots on Twitter Only”-yellow

Your success on Twitter depends on whom you follow, don’t look for quantities insist for quality, don’t follow people based on their follower counts, follow insightful and interesting people for significant conversations. If you can’t determine whom to follow use Twitter suggestion services like service like Mr. Tweet.

“I ONLY Tweet of Who I AM” - yellow

If you want to be Pro Twitter, maintain good balance between recommending content others have written and promoting your own posts. Don’t be self obsessed, add value to your network of twitter, and make someone famous.

“I Never Reciprocate”-yellow

Follow everyone that follows you, having more followers adds to the community and the discussion, join the conversation, And it’s polite to follow back. Answer questions, discuss heated topics, reply to interesting tweets from your followers, or people you follow, send a thank you note if someone send you something unique and useful.

“I Don’t Want To Annoy My Followers” -yellow

Don’t be a bot. Give your tweets a human touch, don’t use automated direct messages created by the software. Don’t overwhelm your followers with hundreds of useless tweets, don’t just promote your products, services or retweet links in which you are mentioned.

Using Twitter as effective marketing tool is challenging, but it’s rewarding beyond your imagination, use it well and use it often.

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Searching On Twitter And Advanced

There is an undeniable need to search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second. Twitter Search helps you filter all the real-time information.

Courtesy of Twitter

http://search.twitter.com

Advanced Search

Courtesy of Twitter

Actually, Twitter advanced search feature is really unique and should not be taken lightly. Among pretty traditional options (exact match, language based, etc), there are quite innovative parameters: search by emotional coloring or sentence semantic structure.

Let’s overview briefly what we can do with Twitter search:

• Word-level search:
• search for exact match: e.g. ["search marketing"];
• search for any of these words: e.g. [search OR marketing];
• exclude any word: e.g. [search marketing -seo];
• search for related discussions (hashtags): [#seo];
• restrict search results to any specific language (adds “&lang=” to the query string).
• A person-related search:
• find threads by a specified Twitter user: [seo from:seosmarty];
• find threads addressed to a specified Twitter user: [WordPress to:jdevalk];
• find Tweets referencing the specified username: [search @mashable].
• Location-specific search:
• find Tweets sent near the specified location: [seo near:seattle];
• find Tweets sent within XX miles of the specified location: [near:NYC within:15mi].
• Date-specific search: find posts sent since / until the specified date (YYYY-MM-DD): [seo since:2008-06-25].
• Emotional color and semantic structure search:
• finds Tweets with positive / negative attitude: [icann :)], [mccain :(];
• search for questions: [elections ?].
• Search for useful resources - i.e. links to related pages: [seo filter:links].

Courtesy of Twitter

http://search.twitter.com/operators

You can type these search operators directly into the search box. (Alternatively, you can use the advanced search form to automatically construct your query above.)

TweetBeep!

http://tweetbeep.com

Courtesy of Twitter

Free Twitter Alerts by Email!

If you love Twitter, you'll love TweetBeep! Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates! You can even keep track of who's tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like tinyurl.com). Now, how cool is that?!

Great for online reputation management, catching all your @replies, finding job/networking opportunities, keeping up on your favorite hobby, and more!

 

 

 

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Simple Ways to Promote Your Blog on Facebook

Facebook is the place that unites my relatives, friends and colleagues - people that might build a great community around my website. Here are some tools that can help you share you website with your Facebook buddies:

1.     Networked Blogs application allows creating a community around your blog.

What you can do:

• Verify your authorship by asking your friends to confirm it (send maximum 20 confirmation requests in a bulk):
• Invite friends: you can invite all your friends at once (of course, they will have to sign up for the app to both confirm your authorship and join your blog network).
• Add your blog details (blog name, URL, tagline and description, feed URL, up to 3 tags).

2. RSS connect application offers to add a blog or any RSS feed to your wall or boxes tab or create a fully customizable tab dedicated to your feeds.

You will be able to :

1. Add a box to your profile wall;
2. Add a box to your boxes tab;
3. Create a customizable tab for your feed.

3. Simplaris Blogcast (there are many similar apps but this one is my favorite) integrates an existing blog into Facebook “to increase your visibility and share your content with all your friends”. Make sure to configure it to make the profile links go to your site directly:

4. “Share a link” option can be accessed from your profile page:

• Specify the link;
• Hit “preview”;
• (Important) Choose the correct image;
• Click “post”:

Check out this post for more awesome Facebook apps for doing business.

 

 

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Dedicated to my dog, Jaxx Magee

 

  My dog has died.

  He has gone to doggy haven, in the great blue sky

  Someday I'll join him there,

  but now he's gone with his dark shinny coat,

  his loving manners and his chestnut color eyes

  I do believe in a heaven for all animals

  where my dog waits for my arrival waving his fan-like tail in friendship.

  I'll not speak of sadness here, of having lost a companion who was my animal

  spirit.

  His friendship for me, like that of a natural gentle giant, the good karma boy. 

  It was love at first sight, when he fetched the first ball and ran into my arms. 

  My dog, Jaxx would gaze at me, paying me the attention I need,

 the attention required to make  me understand that, being a dog, he was my animal spirit,

  with those eyes so much purer than mine, he'd keep on gazing at me

  with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and love of life,

  always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing.

  There are no good-byes for my dog who has died,

  So now he's gone in the great blue sky

  good-bye my animal spirit, good-bye my

  Jaxx Magee 1997 - 2009

 

 

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How To Keep Track Of Your Social Networks and More

 

 

There are so many reason why people do not actively participate in the world of social networking arena; lack of time, too many to choices, and lack of understanding how to use them.

Most folks usually participate with enthusiasm on some of them and ignore the others. Moreover, when you walk through LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, you really don’t have that much time and frankly patience for the rest of them.

So, I thought I would make a few suggestions on how to handle and keep track of most of the social networking sites that could keep you up-to-date

1. RSS Feeds makes it really simple. Most of social networking sites do provide RSS feeds and it is easy to keep track in your usual RSS reader, rather than log in and read the updates on the networking sites. You just need to subscribe the feeds of people you want to know the updates for say in Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or Twitter. In your RSS reader, you can read the status messages and you can choose on which updates you want to respond for. Yes, to respond to conversations, you do have to go to the social networking site and submit. But, in RSS reader you really can choose to what updates or conservations you need to respond and you can keep yourself updated.
2. Setting the email or SMS notifications makes it short. Social media sites do provide email notifications and options to which you can select to receive email for. Set the options for which you want to receive email. You will be periodically updated through the emails. And I guess you really check your emails regularly. Twitter has a very good option to have an SMS sent to your mobile phone. Select the important ones and have the SMS option enabled to receive your important peoples’ tweets on your mobile.
3. ONE SNAP UPDATES. Update your status on most of the networking sites at a time. There are a number of applications and services available that allows you to update the status of more than one social networking site at one go. Update only once in this application and it is updated at most of the networking sites at the same time. www.ping.fm  a very awesome tool to use. In the website, you can send status messages via mobile phone, IMs like MSN, AOL, Yahoo or GTalk and any of the networking sites itself. In turn this site post the status update message on various networking sites (about 30+ sites) in one snap. Pretty darn cool.

I would not suggest having your accounts everywhere and keeping updating them individually, no fun, it’s time consuming and you’ll lose sight of the whole purpose of social networking. I would suggest choosing which ones you feel your like-minded network is and participate enthusiastically and strategically. Social Networking is only going to work for you as much as what you put into it. Yes, this means you still have to work at, but at least this suggestion is just a smart, effective and efficient way to get involve! As I feel, whatever time you spent on these networking sites should be productive and useful to you and others as well.

 

 

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