Comments on: HR Week 2010 – Focus on What Matters

By: mark.stelzner

mark.stelzner — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:54:19 +0000

Thanks Rebecca and I’m thrilled to hear that the Executive Forum is continuing. Please keep us informed and thanks for your hospitality!

By: Rebecca McKenna

Rebecca McKenna — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:50:19 +0000

Mark,
Thank you for for the great post and tweets!
This was the first year that we included the HR Executive Forum in HR Week. We do plan to continue the Forum as a stand alone event. We are thrilled with the feedback and will update you on dates and location when we finalize shortly.
Best Regards,
Rebecca McKenna

By: mark.stelzner

mark.stelzner — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:51:01 +0000

@Bill – My favorite was “When Bill Kutik does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.” Hilarious.

By: Bill Kutik

Bill Kutik — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:00:14 +0000

So glad you mentioned the Starr Tincup media barrage of last week, Mark. Just for the record, I didn’t ask them to do it; I didn’t pay them to do it; and I can’t give you a fully coherent reason why they did do it.

However, strictly business, Starr Tincup is a marketing agency aimed squarely at HR technology vendors. So what better way to display their creativity and wicked sense of humor than to apply it to someone most vendors know?

You only saw the five e-mails?!? Lucky, you missed the 40 unique tweets last week which went out several times each. My favorite was:

“Bill Kutik doesn’t wear a watch. HE decides what time it is.”

By: mark.stelzner

mark.stelzner — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:56:02 +0000

@Bill Kutik – I would love to see the Forum come back in 2011 so please let me know if I can either help make that happen or simply serve as a doting attendee. And you’re probably right Bill, my seemingly harsh laughter was likely uncalled for, but after a week of daily Bill Kutik love-in emails (see http://jpie.com/) I felt a need to restore balance through derision and mockery. I’m a weak and petty man.

By: Bill Kutik

Bill Kutik — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:55:52 +0000

Glad you liked the HR Executive Forum, Mark. I did, too. A terrific collection of senior executives, and the two best panel moderators in our world, Gerry Crispin and Jason Averbook. I’ve been using them at the HR Technology Conference for years, including this September’s. I don’t program the Forum, so I don’t know that it won’t be repeated in some location next year.

But why should I and the other more mature members of the audience you mocked know how to text? I don’t have any children, and the people I deal with professionally use whole words, sentences and paragraphs in their communications with me. And their cell phones to talk. Imagine that!

Besides, when did you last text on a traditional cell phone, rather than a smart phone, with the necessity to hit some keys up to four times to get a number, which is what the poll required? Have some sympathy for those with lesser personal technology than you do, Mark, same as you did for the poor jumper, rather than making us objects of derision.

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