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HR Technology 2011 – Observations and Conclusions

After attending hundreds of industry events I’ve come to rely on a single meaningful measure of a conference’s success or failure – the attendee. Although that seems obvious, I’m not speaking to the post-event survey or paper-based ranking of a given session. Instead I walk the floor, listen to what folks are discussing, join in [...]
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HR Technology 2011 – It’s Personal

It’s my third week in France and I’m writing you from Inflexion’s temporary HQ, a fourth story Bordeaux walk-up with windows overlooking an ancient square. Last night musicians played while couples laughed, danced, clapped and drank. This has been an amazing respite and I have droves of content for future posts, but today I write [...]
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Five Lessons from HR Technology 2010

Let me begin with a confession – I’m exhausted. Not that usual, “boy I really need a good night’s sleep” kind of tired, but instead that deep feeling in your bones that screams, “take a serious breather, step away from the laptop and just chill.” This is how I’ve felt since returning from the 2010 [...]
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Uncle Bill Wants You!

Bill Kutik doesn’t really ask me for much, so when he suggested that I let you all know about the upcoming 2010 HR Technology Conference and Exposition, it was kind of a no brainer. Why is that? I covered last year’s HR Tech event here and concluded that it was “a rousing success”. This year my [...]
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