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    Friday
    Sep252009

    O Canada

    This week has been crazy, first getting accosted in a mall parking lot on the way to RecruitFest, and then the fantastic RecruitFest event itself (and an even better party afterword), and followed on Thursday a chance to meet the team at Rypple and Halogen.

    If you don't know about Rypple, you really should take some time and check out their service.

    Designed to enable individuals to solicit anonymous feedback from trusted advisors, colleagues, friends, customers, or students, it is a fantastically simple, yet powerful solution.  Users craft a simple and concise question, and get feedback that they can use to improve their performance.  The feedback is stored by Rypple, so users can track their performance over time.

    Rypple was selected to present as the Cool New Technologies session at next week's HR Technology Conference, and I recommend you check out what is happening at Rypple, the team is constantly improving and innovating and some really interesting new features are in the works.

    I left the team at Rypple to head to Ottawa, home of Halogen Software, a provider of strategic talent management solutions and a long time supporter of my HR Technology class.  Halogen continues to innovate in the talent management space, with the recent release of next generation Talent Profiles and and a new Activity Tracker, that collects all activity related to performance and development and presents the information in a consolidated feed.

    And most fun of all, today Friday September 26 at 6PM EDT the folks from Halogen will be my guests on the HR Happy Hour show - 'Talent and Technology'.  We will be talking about the role technology can play in helping organizations manage, assess, and optimize talent to help the organization meet its strategic objectives.  Since we are in Canada, I imagine we will also talk a little hockey and perhaps enjoy a few Tim Horton's donuts.

    Thanks again to Connie, Maggie, Brent, Donna, Sean and the entire Halogen team for welcoming me to Halogen and letting me broadcast the show from Halogen HQ.

    Tuesday
    Sep222009

    Social Networking vs. CB Radio

    I am hitting the road later today traveling to Toronto for RecruitFest, meeting with the great folks at Rypple, then on to Ottawa to visit my friends at Halogen Software (and do a live HR Happy Hour show).

    I am driving so there will be lots of time in the car, and that pretty much means lots of time 'off the grid' and disconnected from social media and networks.

    Too bad I don't have my old CB Radio.I could do some 'old-school' social networking in the car.

    For those who don't remember CB's check out the lengthy article on Wiikipedia.


    CB Radio culture was celebrated in movies, television, and music.

    In many ways the CB Radio was the early form of technology-enabled social networking.  The band served many of the same purposes that social networks like Twitter do today, news, ('the bridge is out on I-77'), inside information, ('Kojak with a Kodak on US46'), and pure socializing, ('Breaker one-two, this is Greasemonkey, anyone have their ears on, come back?').

    But are today's social networks, like Facebook and Twitter superior to the classic CB Radio? 

    The Tale of the Tape:

    Feature
    Social Networks
    CB Radio
    Advantage




    Primary users Pretty much everyone
    Long haul truckers
    CB Radio
    Iconic figures
    Robert Scoble, Ev, Jack
    Betty Ford, Jackie Gleason
    CB Radio
    Star power
    Hammer, Ashton Kutcher
    Burt Reynolds
    Push
    Theme song
    'United Breaks Guitars'
    'Convoy'
    Social Networks
    Business Benefits
    Connect with customers, prospects, candidates
    Find cheap gas
    Social Networks
    Signature vehicles
    Mini Cooper, Smart Car
    Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am, Kenworth 18 Wheeler
    CB Radio
    'Anti-social' features
    Multi-level-marketing
    Disregard for traffic regulations
    CB Radio
    Networks fostered by
    Friending, The 'ReTweet', 'Follow Friday'
    Keeping each other out of jail, Truck Stop parties
    CB Radio
    Signal the end was near
    Grandma is on Facebook
    Cell phone technology
    Social Networks


    Well, it is clear- CB Radio tops Social Networks!

    Time to figure out a new handle, I hope it doesn't wreck my personal brand.

     

     

    Thanks to Jerry Albright for the original idea to write this post.