This is a blog post as a Mother’s Day gift for my wife. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! However unconventional this may be, I am following along the lines of a friend of mine, Steve Browne. Steve once got a blog – for Christmas. I wanted to take time out of my life and tell anyone who [...]
Continue Reading→SHRM Atlanta Takeaways
May
03
2013
By Dave Ryan
I have been back from the SHRM Atlanta conference for a couple of days now and had a chance to gather my thoughts about the event. First and foremost I would like to thank the Board of SHRM Atlanta for putting on a superb event. It all worked; the hotel, the meeting rooms, the exhibit [...]
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Apr
28
2013
By Dave Ryan
Saturday April 27th, 2013. - SHRM Atlanta begins on Monday morning April 29th. I have attended and participated in my share of HR events, most of them in the Mid-West. On Monday I am off to a different region, to look at conference from a little different prospective. I will be a Mid-Westerner in the [...]
Continue Reading→The BIG SHOW in Chicago
Apr
08
2013
By Dave Ryan
If you are in Human Resources this is the BIG SHOW. Yes I am talking about the Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference – this year in Chicago, IL. Are you going? If you are in HR this is the big kahuna – even if, gasp -god forbid you are not a SHRM member. [...]
Continue Reading→Social Media, Blogging and Me
Mar
06
2013
By Dave Ryan
Why do we all do it, tweet, blog, facebook, Google + and Linkedin I have an undergraduate degree in Communication. Some might argue that my BA simply exists so that institutions can crank out diplomas. (Said another way communications ain’t rocket science.) While this may be true, there is actually something to studying, understanding [...]
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