Capitalist Note: I'm on the scene at the SHRM 2009 National Conference in New Orleans. So the news is all-SHRM, all the time. I might bash the organization many love to hate or hug it out with the organization people rely on for cheap access to Sheryl Crow with Convention Center sound quality. I'm tricky like that....
Oh yeah... It's almost time for the blogger's panel at SHRM today (11:30 Central).. Which can only mean one thing:
"Let's get ready to Rumbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"!
The session name for our event, officially cleaned up by the SHRM marketing team, is "HR Bloggers: Who are these people and why should I care?"
It should read: "The HR Bloggers: Damn, There Are a Lot of Type A's on that Stage...Is There Enough Oxygen?"
Consider the cast:
Laurie Ruettimann - Former corporate HR, now Punk Rock HR. Go read the site. If she decides to bring the "A" game with snark, it could get ugly early. She can turn on the charm or the punk... It's the difference between a corporate retreat or the Springer show referenced in the title.
Jessica Lee - Editor of Fistful of Talent, HR practitioner and sole gal at Jessica Lee Writes. Once made an FOT staffer cry with her quality demands. "I don't care how you make it happen, just make it brilliant in 600 words or less". If I've heard that once, I've heard it 1,000 times around the FOT office. Can turnover problems at Fistful be far behind? Am I going to have to return to run the show like Steve Jobs?
Lance Haun - He's Your HR Guy, he's my HR guy. Met him for the first time at the conference, GREAT guy. I'm thinking he's capable of a brutal sneak attack as a result. I've got my eye on him for that reason alone... You're not fooling anyone with that, "Hey, I'm a nice guy.. What's the Trailblazers score?" act, Lance.... I'm onto you brother...
Kris Dunn - That's me, KD, in the city surrounded by the sea. True story, I was out to dinner with some industry friends on Monday and they informed me that the movie that most typified my personality was "Up", which I'm thinking is a kid's movie about hope, imagination, etc. I thought I was more sinister than that, which means I'm going to have to prove it to the world. I'll be hyped up like the Eminem wannabe you see on Springer in the sleeveless T with 3 Red Bulls in his system.
So that's your lineup. What could go wrong? I'm going to suggest we start the session with a nice game of musical chairs just to get the blood going a bit...
The only thing that will keep this thing between the ditches? The panel will be live-streamed to anyone who wants it and will also be video-archived for the rest of history...
PS - check back here around game time at 11:30 Central today. I'll have a post up with the live stream...
Good analogy w/Springer, but here's the difference -- no one in the audience would get hurt by flying chairs. That's because due to SHRM's wonderful decision to schedule this at the very end of the conference when everyone has gone home, there will be no one in your audience to get hit by a chair ...
Posted by: John Hollon | July 01, 2009 at 10:24 AM
There had better be cussing and some hair pulling now that you've set this expectation. For some reason, the though of HR bloggers rumbling just isn't working for me. Give 'em hell.
Posted by: Jason Lauritsen | July 02, 2009 at 09:22 AM
Kris, thanks for the informative session, wasn't quite Jerry Springer (thank goodness!) and I really liked the insight you gave.
Covered it in my HR blog at Hewlett-Packard: http://bit.ly/1a3t3r
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Steph K
Posted by: Steph K | July 17, 2009 at 08:58 AM