Oh, the People You’ll Meet at the Carnival
June 25th, 2009 by Lois MelbourneEven with sharply decreased travel budgets you can still meet so many talented people in the human resources industry. They are from all walks of life and experiences, and it is almost a given that you will learn from them. There are still many ways to connect with these people.
For instance, I learn so much about HR issues from meeting with our customers, such as:
- creative ways to do a rapid succession plan
- unique and common prospectives to reorganizing staff for alignment with business strategies
- data integrity problems that can make you pull your hair out, if you can’t find a way to fix them (that’s where Aquire comes in)
- and so many other great discussions
Then there is my network of non-customers in the human resource space. Some are vendors to the HR profession and others are actual HR professionals. Some are just really interesting people who are interested in other people. I use my travels, tradeshows, LinkedIn, and now Twitter, to meet, greet, learn from, and, hopefully, contribute to this wonderful network of professionals who make supporting the world’s employee base a better career.
One of the truly amazing networks I’ve encountered and am largely expanding into, is the world of human resource bloggers. One particular blog isn’t really a single blog, it’s called “Carnival of HR.” Every few weeks this roving blog entry, comprised of a collaboration of links to some of the best, brightest, and most entertaining bloggers in the industry, is posted by a different industry blogger – thus sharing the web traffic love. Some entrants are in every Carnival and others come in and out. You have GOT to meet these people.
Check out this week’s Carnival of HR hosted by Inflexion Point, the blog page for Inflexion Advisors, and coordinated by the HR Minion (aka Shauna Moerke). I didn’t get an entry into this carnival, but I occasionally drop by, too. You can also check out the accompanying Blogrolls, a list of other recommended bloggers posted on a blogger’s site. (I now have one on my blog – and will be enhancing it soon with more great resources.)
We can learn so much from each other and be entertained as well. By the way, if you are not reading blogs yet, or are not LinkedIn or connecting with Twitter, you are really missing something, and it just might bite you one day. Because, oh, the people you’ll meet…
Cheers,
Lois
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