XpertHR’s #SHRM12 social media overview (1): Condi, coloured popcorn & good eggs

SHRM 2012 is now successfully underway over in Atlanta, Georgia, and is generating an abundance of fascinating social media activity, with tweets, twitpics and blog posts now pouring out.

Condi, coloured popcorn & good eggs

Here’s my first overview of some of the key trends to emerge via social media from SHRM 2012. These include the following: Condi, coloured popcorn and the “good eggs” of HR.

I’m keeping track of events at SHRM 2012 from the UK, but I’m pleased to report that XpertHR also has a ‘embedded’ team over there ‘on the ground’ in Atlanta.  So if you’re reading this in Atlanta, please do spare a moment to drop in on the XpertHR team at booth 318 (and also get a demonstration of the XpertHR US site plus enter our HR Quiz competition to win an iPad!).

And you can follow XpertHR’s SHRM 2012 team on Twitter: @oldshep; @davidweisenfeld; @peggycarterward; and @xperthrusa.

Please do feel free to share your own personal highlights of SHRM 2012 – whether you’re lucky enough to be attending it in person, or like me tapping into SHRM 2012 via social media.

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Condoleezza Rice: Don’t ‘execute the head of product safety‘

It’s generally not considered to be good HR practice to “execute the head of product safety.”

This handy advice comes from former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in her SHRM 2012 opening address yesterday (Sunday 24 June 2012), according to on-the-spot reportage or Dr Rice’s speech from my colleague David Weisenfeld.

David also notes that the “most revealing remark came when she said that whatever happens with immigration, it must happen federally. ‘You can’t have one immigration policy in Arizona, and one nationally,’ Rice noted, in a not-to-subtle jab at the trend of some states going beyond the federal government in cracking down on undocumented workers and those that employ them.”



Unsurprisingly, Dr Rice’s address made a major splash in terms of social media reaction from SHRM 2012 attendees. Here are some further reactions:

• Tweeting live from Atlanta, Steve Browne seems to have been most struck by Dr Rice’s assertion that “What seems to be impossible turns out to be inevitable.”
  
  
• Sticking to his pledge to blog frequently and informatively from SHRM 2012, leading US HR blogger Charlie Judy presents his own report on Dr Rice’s words, entitled You Will Have To Be Twice As Good. Charlie says: “When Dr. Rice was a young girl, her wise parents said to her, ‘you are going to have to be twice as good as everybody else [to get ahead in this world].’ They said this because she was growing up during a time when blacks…and girls…had the odds stacked against them. And so she did. She worked twice as hard and she was twice as good as everybody else. And then she became the U.S.’s 66th Secretary of State. HR, our plight isn’t anywhere close to what minority women have faced in our lifetime.”
• Bryan Wempen: My Thoughts On ‘Dr. Condi Rice” Sharing Her Thoughts At SHRM 2012 Bryan Wempen weighs in with his account. Bryan says: “Dr. Condoleezza Rice didn’t disappoint me… goose bumps, a little tear… that was good.”
  
  

Coloured popcorn: A culinary innovation from SHRM 2012?

Coloured popcorn. This is an entirely new culinary phenomenon to me, at least. Will SHRM 2012 be remembered for introducing coloured popcorn to this world? Or am I behind the coloured popcorn curve?

Either way, this picture from SHRM 2012 attendee Heather Dutcher is quite possibly the most colourful and striking image I’ve yet seen to emerge from this year’s conference!



And what are these smart bars I’m reading so much about in #SHRM12 tweets? Any answers welcome!



The good eggs of HR: “Nice is kinda their job”

Do HR folks tend to be what one might refer to as rather good eggs? Kristin Gattis certainly thinks so, as she explains in this rather lovely tweet regarding her initial impressions of SHRM 2012:

• Couldn’t help but think “Wow, everyone here’s so nice!” then I remembered, I’m at an HR conf.. nice is kinda their job. ‪#SHRM12

#NotAtSHRM12: On the outside looking in

My reports on the social media highlights of SHRM 2012 are by necessity from the outside looking in. But I owe it to my friend, leading New York HR gent Victorio Milian, for making me aware that there are quite a few of us out there…and we even have our own Twitter hashtag!



Click on #NotAtSHRM12 for the latest Twitter updates from those of us not lucky enough to have made it to Atlanta for this year’s conference.

And those of us on the outside looking in at SHRM 2012 can take some inspiration from this post from Janine Truitt (aka @CzarinaofHR), entitled Five Reasons I Will Be At The SHRM National Conference in 2013.

SHRM 2012 tweet round-up (1)

Here are some Twitter highlights from SHRM 2012 so far (NB: This is a necessarily brief and entirely subjective selection, a veritable drop in the ocean of the thousands upon thousands of tweets:

• Shannon Offord presents a nice brief review of SHRM 2012 day one: “Great first day ‪#shrm12‬!…what will tomorrow have in store ????”
• Joan Ginsberg: “SHRM is planning on a toolkit to help create programs for local biz. Discussed at May ?#SHRMchat?! ?#SHRM12? ?#SHRMlead”
• Carlos Escobar: “There is no profession that leads organization that doesn’t have standards” – Hank Jackon #shrm12 #ANSI
  
  

SHRM 2012 blog posts round-up (1)

• David Weisenfeld: Condoleeza Rice Addresses Overflow SHRM Crowd The first post from XpertHR’s team at SHRM 2012, covering Dr Rice’s opening session on Sunday 24 June 2012.
• Charlie Judy You Will Have To Be Twice As Good Top blogger Charlie Judy presents his account of Dr Rice’s speech, and also reports from SHRM President Hank Jackson’s opening speech. Charlie reports: “He told us that the new SHRM HR Competency Framework will be unveiled this week.”
• Bryan Wempen: My Thoughts On ‘Dr. Condi Rice” Sharing Her Thoughts At SHRM 2012  
  
  
• Janine Truitt: Five Reasons I Will Be At The SHRM National Conference in 2013 A post for those of us #NotAtSHRM12.
• Buzzing Around SHRM12! A great little overview of personal highlights from SHRM 2012, by Cat Carlos on the People Views blog.
• Jessica Miller-Merrell: The Ultimate #SHRM12 Conference Blogger List A post from the Blogging4Jobs blogl that very much does what it says on the tin. Comprehensive.
• Robin Schooling: HR of the Future: The Students Bring It – #SHRM12  

See also:

• SHRM 2012: XpertHR’s social media overview The landing page for XpertHR’s overview of social media coverage fo SHRM 2012.
• XpertHR’s #SHRM12 social media overview (1): Condi, coloured popcorn & good eggs My first round-up of the social media highlights of SHRM 2012.
• XpertHR’s #SHRM12 social media overview (2): Tattoos, social media madness, Dreamworks & Malcolm Gladwell My second round-up.
• XpertHR’s #SHRM12 social media overview (3): Bacon, Seinfeld, the Fonz & Jim Collins   
  
  
• Jerry Seinfeld at #SHRM12: Evil cookies & why your life sucks
  
  
• Jim Collins at #SHRM12: ‘Create a stop doing list’ 
• David Weisenfeld: Condoleeza Rice Addresses Overflow SHRM Crowd The first post from XpertHR’s team at SHRM 2012, covering Dr Rice’s opening session on Sunday 24 June 2012.