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By: mark.stelzner

mark.stelzner — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:04:22 +0000

@Trish – Thanks for the comment. I thought Russ was great and agree that we’ll hopefully see more “socials” next time around.

@Mark – I like the term “certification mafia” and your point about “fresh thinking” being the victim. Great comments all around Mark, thanks.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:10:37 +0000

That the guy from Walmart is all about getting a seat at the table. Let’s face it, people are not a high priority for them. Companies that do not give a crap about people certainly have no desire to have some pesky HR person interrupting their conversations.

Great round-up, but also a damning synopsis of problems inherent in these events. In trying to be all things to all people, the value and content get diluted; partly the blame of the certification mafia and partly the event organizers in order to build scale (i.e. revenue). The victim becomes fresh thinking. Here is a thought, why not have a mash-up of an engineering conference with a HR conference, put them in a room with a bunch of topics to discuss, and see what happens?

As for the HIPsters, such is the unfortunate byproduct of event bloat. It ends up playing well for the 60% of folks that show up to the mega-shows that do not want to have to 1) think or 2) do real work.

I am glad that some good content came out of it though, and that HP person sounds fascinating. I hope you spent some time chatting her up and that you invited her to HRevolution!

By: Trish McFarlane

Trish McFarlane — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:26:21 +0000

I really enjoyed your post and hearing what companies are doing right and how some are still not quite “getting it”. I especially like the quote from Russ Jackson about reinventing yourself. When you tweeted that live, it really caught my attention. Thanks for sharing the experience with us. Hope you’re going to consider representing the “Socials” of HR next year so you can share our stories of innovation. It sounds like they need that voice.