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#TChat Radio is all new and live this Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at 6:30 pm ET (3:30 pm PT). Remember, the #TChat Twitter chat will follow from 7-8 pm ET.    We went from the big data show to July 4th and now we're back with the big summer social boom.   The social boom of being hyper-connected digitally professionally and personally, yet disrupted and starved for quality "face time" with family, f...

#TChat Radio is all new, live, Wed June 26, 2013, at 6:30 pm ET (3:30 pm PT). PLEASE NOTE NEW DAY/TIME -- just prior to our popular Wednesday #TChat Twitter chat, from 7-8 pm ET. Join us for both events!   Big data is a big deal for HR and yet shouldn't be daunting. It's all about measuring AND forecasting specific business analytics, from recruiting to outplacement and in between.    Organization...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." --George S. Patton  Even though General Patton (think WWII) was considered a stubborn, hard-ass of a leader, he certainly had the right ideas about getting people motivated and innovative to take ownership over th...

#TChat Radio is all new, Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   Consider the job candidate experience today – five generations of gender, ethnic, cultural, skills and experience diversity clamoring for full-time, part-time and increasing freelance/contract employment in the world of evolving project-based, collaborative work.    How do you think your candidate experience fares today...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   There are reasons why some online communities grow and thrive while others fade away into obscurity.   One of the primary reasons involves like-minded individuals aggregating and communicating around relevant topics, as well as having the ability to come and go as they please, and welcome other like-minded individuals...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   Doesn't everybody love their job?   Unfortunately no. Too many are not happy, disengaged and feel they just aren't being recognized. At all. Major shifts in technology, social media and management strategy (or lack thereof) have drastically changed how we work, and not for the better. In fact, lost productivity of acti...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   Do you work in your own closed office? In a cubicle? In fluid, open, shared space?  Or in a corner nook of your master bedroom?   Where you work and what that work space looks like can have a huge effect on just how you get work done, individually and with others. Your work environment can create opportunities for comm...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). The worlds of education and business are moving farther and farther apart. The skills shortage many economists and other "world of work" thought leaders keep talking about is real and leaving millions behind. Schools aren't encouraging students to become bold thinkers, dreamers, and doers -- and businesses are expecting t...

A special one-hour edition of #TChat Radio is all new on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at 4 pm ET (1 pm PT)!   You know how there's a secret prize in your favorite box of children's cereal? Well, welcome to your world-of-work prize in a box.   Or more precisely, your multiple prizes in the social media lounge sponsored by KellyOCG at this year's HRO Today Forum. The entire social media team -- HROvenger...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). In the U.S. there are over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations that compete for charitable dollars. The fact is it's become more difficult today to attract donations in our social media-savvy society, despite spending over $7.6 billion annually on marketing. What to do? Well, according to the 2012 Nonprofit Social Netw...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). Even with the collaborative "social" technologies available today to share and learn across the private enterprise and the public domain, nothing beats attending a quality industry conference chock full of thought leaders and content and that all-too valuable face-time networking. #TChat co-creators and hosts, Meghan M...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). We cling to plenty of premises -- postulates, really -- to guide and make sense of our day-to-day lives. In the world of work, prominent among these are the categorization of generations and the cataloguing of generational differences. We fret over how to recruit Millennials. We wonder how to manage them vs. Baby Boomer...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). There are many different flavors related to the term "software as a service" (SaaS) in business today. It's part of the cloud computing nomenclature -- "clouding" this and "clouding" that making everything more accessible with reduced long-term hardware, software and networking costs. So what about Talent as a Service (...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). Social learning and talent development are life-long processes that transcend career and education, cutting to the core of why we're here and what it means to be human. We are here to become more, to experience and develop our talents in every aspect of living. Life is a continuous process of learning and skill develop...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). According to Bersin by Deloitte, 2013 looks to be a decent year of global growth, but for HR and talent leaders it will also continue to present a myriad of challenges. Bersin by Delloite research shows that organizations are struggling to create a global leadership pipeline, train leaders locally, develop strategic mo...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). We've all seen what polarization can do to a community and country. Extreme polarization hobbles our ability to improve processes and social ills, to progress at a global business leader, to just plain get things done. According to our guest this week, Jesse Lyn Stoner (@JesseLynStoner), collaboration is the remedy for...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, February 26, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). We've recently made the business case for the unemployed and we've helped to further humanize brands. Now the Internet's collaborative interconnectivy empowers us all to own our online presence, our personal branding, our development, our successes and of course, our painful failures. And own them we must. This new...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).?  Let's demystify "brand humanization." It's a nice-sounding term, fluffy and a little sweet, but we need to figure out exactly what it stands for and how to make brand humanization happen. Social media facilitates the humanization of brands, making them seem more accessible to customers and candidates alike, but th...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   There's just too many of them; there are 4.8 million people who are known as "the long-term unemployed" according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These are people who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more, and in fact make up almost 40 percent of all unemployed people. The current average period a person i...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   You know the story. Once upon a time, companies courted new talent with the promise of a lifelong relationship. "Work" meant employment and job security for years, if not decades. But the romance has died, and for better or worse, we are so over it. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an estimated 40% of a...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   Diversity of ideas, of perspectives -- it's all about innovation, this diversity; diversity isn't just about demographics. That's the premise of this week's #TChat. We propose an alternative definition of diversity, not a counterpoint to the conventional meaning, but a flourish upon it. Musicians call such things e...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, January 22, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   Endorsements online can mean a lot. They can help an organization's SEO, and research shows that a large majority percentage of social media users turn to their peers for recommendations on products and services, and not to the organizations themselves that provide these -- a sort of unofficial recommendation. Agai...

#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   When you recognize your employees and show thanks to them, do you fake it? Maybe or probably not, but does it seem like you do, to them? That's a conundrum, how organizations can project genuine gratitude and authentic recognition. We're not saying you don't mean it, but your employees need to know you mean it. The...

Happy New Year! #TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   2013 is upon us. What does it mean for careers? With the true U.S. unemployment rate still high and employee engagement still low, who out there is still looking, who's given up and who's about to start? How do we make ourselves more marketable and relevant in an ever-changing world of work? How do w...