Happy Monday everybody! I’m actually preparing to fly to Melbourne this afternoon for a group HR planning day tomorrow. I’m pretty excited because I have managed to snag 30 mins on the agenda to talk about opportunities for HR in Social Media. It is a rapidly growing area- and one that can’t be ignored. Once I’ve finalised the presentation...

Happy Monday everybody! I can hear the groans already. Mondays are a bit of a pain but then again, you have to start somewhere. Aside from being a morning person, I opened my mail this morning to find this little gem inside! A few months ago at the Twitter Beach Meet, I met Elinor Green and Lucie Snape from ‘the face’. We chatted about twitter, its uses in...

Last week when I was chairing the Australian Employment and Workplace Relations Summit, the very last panel featured Pete Williams from Deloitte Digital and so the conversation skewed towards social media and what companies allow employees to access. I mentioned that in my workplace, I have access to everything. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube- the lot- and I...

Social Media is being talked about a lot lately. We’ve seen news break first on twitter, employees are fired for things on facebook and politicians like Obama and Kevin Rudd use it as part of campaign strategies or as a means to connect with the public. It’s also becoming a way for organisations to build relationships with people, join the conversation, build...

I was reading “Vendor View: Kiwi invasion of the Australian recruitment market” on Destination Talent this morning and was reminded of the great things that Air New Zealand are doing in the HR/Recruitment space (I also travelled with them to Queenstown on the weekend!). Simon Pommeroy is the Recruitment Manager of Air New Zealand and he’s won...