Sponsor this blog!

 

    I love blogging, but it takes a huge amount of time.  If I’m going to keep this blog – Strategic HCM - going, it needs to make some sort of contribution to my business income.

I’m therefore looking for sponsorship.

Interested?

 

About me

I am a consultant, trainer, speaker, writer (etc) focusing on strategic human capital management and other innovations in the way that organisations manage their people.

I’m also the author of ‘Strategic Human Capital Management: Creating Value through People’ which provides the background for much of what I post about on this blog.

As well as this blog, I do have another, newer one – Social Advantage, a podcast show – Talking HR, and I tweet too.  This all helps develop interest in me and this blog.

Supporting this, I’ve now also been recognised as one of the top 25 online influencers in HR, and THE top online influencer in talent management.

 

 

About this blog

My blog generally has between 200-300 visits and 250-450 page views per day (from Sitemeter and Google Analytics) and about 1,350 subscribers (from Feedburner).  These figures are still increasing.

 

 

Individual posts (vs just the new posts on the blog’s front page) get read between 1 (yes, really!) and 1000 times, depending (I presume) upon their level of interest.

In addition, the blog currently has mainly kept a Google page rank of 6 over the last few years.  So if you search on something related to HR, you’re quite likely to come across one of my posts.

The blog is aimed at senior, strategic players in HR and people management (your audience too?) and I post onto it most work days.

Peer and other recognition includes:

Top HR blog to watch 2010

#12 HR blog

#13 global talent management blog

#52 career management blog (#2 in Europe, #1 in UK)

 

The opportunity

I’m happy to be flexible and look at what will work for you, but my suggestion is that we package three things together:

• Your logo centrally positioned on my blog (where you can see the gadget headed ‘Sponsorship’ now)
• A description of your offer in the blog sidebar
• Sponsored posts
  • Six sponsored posts, ie one approximately every two months, on topics of your choice, for example on your products / services, clients / customers, projects, research, events, interviews with your people etc (you’d obviously want to choose topics that I and my readers will be interested in)
  • Each of these posts would be written by me and I would spend whatever time might be needed to research the area, and to draft and agree the post with you (I think offering you the opportunity to review is important, although I would hope that in the main, you would be able to agree with my copy without amendments)
  • Each of these posts would end with a note indicating that the post has been sponsored by you and repeating the description of your offer / product / service.

 

You would be my only sponsor from your sector, and one of a maximum of four sponsors (I’m not going to actively pursue this number of sponsors, but this would be the point where I would start to turn potential new sponsors down).

So how much will this cost?  Well, I’m able to offer you an introductory rate of £5,000 GBP plus VAT to cover sponsorship, as previously described, over a 12 month period.

As well as helping to promote your brand, this arrangement may provide further benefits in helping me get closer to your company and its products and services (eg through my relationship with my clients).  And it will be a lot more cost effective than starting up your own blog.

Still interested?

• Have a look through the blog (eg use the blog archives and blog labels towards the top of the middle column to the right of this paragraph)
• Then get in touch (via info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com) and let’s discuss….

 

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Google Collaboration

 

   Day 1 of the informatology conference focused on learning and technology with a presentation by Sudhir Giri from Google.

Giri is creating a ‘learning ecosystem’ at Google, in order to get people collaborating internally better.

Part of this development is the Google environment and the way this encourages people to naturally interact with each other.  This includes lots of shared play and food spaces – for example the cafeteria which gets people communicating with other people they wouldn’t normally have connections with.

And then there’s the technology – like g2g tv – getting googlers creating content and teaching others:

 

And gwhiz – an internal system which allows people to tag others and themselves with technical skills.  The higher up the search list someone appears, the more expertise that can be assumed to have.  People can also identify whether they are available to answer questions and / or for mentoring.  So this provides a rudimentary CV and is much more likely to be used than a traditional skills inventory.  And again, it helps people to connect with other folk.

 

These developments provide a range of intangible benefits for Google but these can’t be captured by a ROI!

 

The following photos are from the peer circle run following Sudhir’s session, led by Clive Shepherd and including Karyn Romeis, Mark Berthelemy, Charles Jennings and John Castledine:

 

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The campaign for status updates!

 

   I had an entertaining and informative meeting with Stacy Chapman from strategic workforce planning firm Aruspex today.

We discussed a range of issues from the need to keep workforce planning strategic (see here and here) to the increasing potential for HCM data.  And we found that we agreed on most of these areas.

One other thing that I think we both felt quite passionately about is the dreadful mess integrating Twitter in Linkedin has made of the later’s status updates.

What used to provide a useful way of keeping up with contacts’ activities, has now become a jumble of updates, links and retweets.

Tweets and status updates aren’t the same things.  Let’s hope Linkedin de-integrates, and in the meantime, you can always use #in in your tweets to update Linkedin when it’s appropriate as well (but most of the time it’s not!).

 

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IBM’s HR transformation story

 

   My favourite session at the CIPD’s HRD conference was provided by Tim Ringo, head of IBM HCM consulting, talking about HR transformation at his biggest client: IBM.

One of the things I found particularly interesting was how IBM’s focus on collaboration has supported its HR (and broader business) transformation.  Collaboration is culturally expected, and takes place across geographies, timezones and divisions.  IBM is therefore a “globally integrated enterprise” or a “post multi-national” and feels the same wherever you touch it.

This culture itself has been supported by social networking (‘same time’ instant messaging, blog central, wiki central, podcasting, social networking and tagging), jamming and knowledge management, and IBM’s opportunity marketplace, allowing employees to access self-service HR information, but also other jobs within IBM (managers finding people and people finding managers).

More recently, the HR transformation has also shifted focus to facilitate increased global collaboration:

• Region HR model based on client locations, allowing high touch engagement with business units
• Globally integrated teams of skilled HR professionals and subject matter experts
• New global teaming and collaboration regardless of business unit
• Workforce programmes matching employees to opportunities.

 

Also see this post on IBM’s matching process.

And these articles on Tim Ringo’s session:

• http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/articles/2010/04/hrd-2010-hr-praised-for-role-in-business-turnaround-at-ibm.htm
• http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2010/04/23/55343/ibm-crowd-sourcing-could-see-employed-workforce-shrink-by-three-quarters.html

 

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Personnel Today Social Media Week - Review

 

Five days, five articles.

If you’ve read them, what did you think?

If not, my review is here:

 

You can access the articles at http://bit.ly/PTSocialMediaWeek.

 

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CIPD HRD tweet-up

 

   Another great tweet-up evening after day 1 of the CIPD HRD conference last night.

Photos are here.

 

Blog posts on Intuition and IBM’s presentation coming soon…

Next tweet-up: Connecting HR

 

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Connecting HR 2

 

   The London HR tweet-up’s back, on Thursday 24 June.

If you’re a practitioner who uses or are interested in using Twitter or social media, I hope to see you there.

If you’re a supplier, you’re out of luck!  No, seriously, we do have supplier places too, but we really want to ensure you’re using social media extensively, and that you’re really going to be bringing one or more practitioners along with you as well.  See these posts (1 and 2) for the rationale!  So don’t book via Eventbrite but contact us (Gareth Jones or myself) instead – we’ll discuss the opportunity for you to attend with you.

 

Book here: http://connectinghr.eventbrite.com/.

 

 

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Update on Personnel Today Social Media Week

 

   My articles included in Personnel Today’s Social Media Week so far include:

 

• It's time to for HR to get social
• Integrating social media into HR processes.

 

I’m also included in an article by journalist Jessica Twentyman: Social media: Social services.

I also like Rich DeMatteo (Corn on the Job)’s article on 6 functions HR can’t do without.

 

Do take a look.

And there’ll be more articles from me on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

 

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Delivering effective presentations part 1 (Talking HR 027)

 

   Tonight, Krishna and I spoke about our experiences in delivering presentations (and quite a bit about Eyjafjallajokull).

 

Listen to the show here:

 

We’re going to come back to this topic and talk about presentations in the social media world on 17 May:

• Delivering presentations online – how it is difference
• Delivering real-world presentations – responding to the backchannel (ie people tweeting while you’re talking).

 

Join us again then!:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkinghr/2010/05/17/talking-hr-028-delivering-presentations-in-an-online-world

 

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CIPD HRD Conference

 

   I’m back in press blogger mode for the CIPD HRD Conference and Exhibition (including the IFTDO World Conference) later on this week.

Look out for a few blog posts (although not as many as I did from the annual conference last year!).

And if you’re there, give me a call and let’s meet up for a chat.  Or come to the tweet-up on Wednesday night.

 

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