HR Happy Hour Episode 4 - SHRM 2009 Recap

Well the HR Happy Hour Episode 4 - SHRM '09 Edition is in the bag and the HR Minion, Shauna Moerke and I had a blast hosting HR Bloggers Kris Dunn, Laurie Ruettimann, Lance Haun, Mark Stelzner and Jessica Lee as well as special guest SHRM COO China Gorman.

The panel talked about their session at SHRM '09, their thoughts on where SHRM is heading, the impact and influence of Social Media on SHRM and HR in general.

And to keep me on my toes we also had a couple of barking dogs and a police raid (COPS anyone?).

You can check out the show on the web here here, or also listen back to the archive using the widget below.

Thanks very, very much Shauna for coordinating the guests for this show and thanks to the superstar panel for taking the time out of your holiday weekend to come on.

HR Happy Hour - Episode 4 - SHRM Special Edition

Join the HR Minion, Shauna Moerke and I on Friday, July 3 at 6PM EDT for a special HR Happy Hour - SHRM '09 Edition. HR All-Stars Kris Dunn, Laurie Ruettimann, Lance Haun, Mark Stelzner (and maybe more) are our guests for a re-cap of SHRM 2009. We'll talk about the HR Blogger session, the conference in general, and who threw the best parties. It should be a great show.

You can listen live here, and we plan on taking a few calls during the show as well.

Thanks very, very much Shauna for coordinating the guests for this show and thanks in advance for the superstar panel for agreeing to come on.  Unlike SHRM, I do not have a 'no cursing' rule on the show!

HR Happy Hour - Episode 3 - West Coast Special

We are back!

After a one-week hiatus the most popular live internet call-in show about HR and held on Fridays returns!

That's right, HR Happy Hour will be back live, this Friday, June 19 and this time my co-host Shauna Moerke (The HR Minion) and I have decided to push the show start time back to 9 PM EDT that is 6 PM PDT.

So West Coast USA folks, you have no excuse not to join in on the fun.

Here are the particulars:

If you want to listen live go to: HR Happy Hour - Episode 3

If you would like to call in and participate - call 646-378-1086 during the show, and you can chat with Shauna and I and whomever else wanders in to Happy Hour.

I don't really have an agenda in mind, just a casual and fun hour and hopefully some folks that I have never had the chance to speak to before will call in to chat.

After the show is over, you can listen back here:

See you at the Happy Hour!

HR Happy Hour - Episode 2

The impromptu HR Happy Hour we did last Friday on Blog Talk Radio was so much fun and has inspired enough interest that we have set up HR Happy Hour - Episode 2, coming to you live at 6:00 PM EDT, on Friday June 5.

The special guests for Episode 2 are three of the best and coolest HR Bloggers I know:

Deidre Honner - The HR Maven - A key member of Job Angels, a HUGE hockey fan, and all-around great person

Shauna Moerke - HR Minion (Shauna was on HR Happy Hour Episode 1, but she is so cool she got invited back for Round 2)

Lisa Rosendahl - from HR Thoughts - one of the best HR Blogs around, a super-nice person, and notorious early-riser

To listen live to the show, or to access the show archive afterwards, go to Steve Boese on Blog Talk Radio.

To participate and ask a question of one of our superstar bloggers, call 646-378-1086 once the show starts.

Thanks is advance to the All-Star panel, and let's have some fun at HR Happy Hour!

HR Happy Hour - With some Special Guests

So last night Mark Stelzner tweets:

As I tend to agree with the sentiment in Mark's tweet, I offered this reply:

After a quick convo on Twitter where Mark agreed to call in, and a hasty round of promotion and soliciting other callers, about 25 minutes later we went live on my Blog Talk Radio show, (the one I normally use to record interviews for my HR Technology Class).

It was a blast!  By my reckoning the following folks were live and participating on the call at one time or another:

Mark Stelzer, Charee Klimek , Shauna Moerke (you may know her as the HR Minion), Sharlyn Lauby (the HR Bartender), Joyce Chastain, Becky Allen, Michele Wagner, Susan Burns, and Michael Krupa.

Since the call was not planned, scripted, or rehearsed in any way, the conversation was pretty free-flowing and ventured into many topics: what is happening with JobAngels, an update of the upcoming Social Recruiting Summit in June, and some interesting discussions about employer branding from Charee and a great story from Shauna about 'coming out of the blogging closet'.

You can listen to the 'Happy Hour' here:

I really had fun doing this, and if there is interest from the HR community to do more of these, I am certainly happy to organize and host.  Hit me up in the comments, or sent me a Tweet.

Thanks so much for everyone that called in, and anyone who listened live to the show.