All of us are on some type of social network. Tell me this:

• How much do you share about your work relationships?
• Does your employer mind?
• Do you, as a company, have a long drawn out-tough-to-understand social media policy or is it simple?
• Would you be reprimanded or praised for what you share?

…you really should not be here. I mean, I think it is great that you visit this online site fillied with fact, opinion and rant but it’s Christmas time. Get off the darn internet, your phone, tablet, kindle… and get with the people you rarely talk to or see. Get busy spending quality time with the people who matter!

Merry Christmas…

… Happy Birthday Jesus and God Bless (yeah I said it)!

Note: I wrote this on Tuesday!

Yesterday was my Birthday. I stayed home, watched 2 movies, chilled and overall tried to stay away from the computer. Not completely successful but overall I did a good job.

You can be connected but how connected is too connected?

I believe that it is the time for Human Resources. The time that many companies, people, employees, vendors and executives are seeing the need of the people who represent and lead the roles to add value to the overall effectiveness in the organization.

HR is showing up more and more. This is evidenced through publications like BNet.com and other national papers and blogs. Mashable is no exception and they have talked about Social Media in the workplace context for awhile.

I am happy we as a profession are getting more recognition. It is just more reinforcement for us as professionals. We have more tools and encouragement to be champions for our function as well as advertise that passion. I am very excited to be included in an article on Mashable.com. It was written by a great advocate for the field Sharlyn Lauby and includes some great contributors to the convo! I invite you to add to the discussion in the Mashable article entitied ”The Future of HR & SocialMedia” http://t.co/gv8xkyI – Leave your thoughts.

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