Serving Up a Bit of SHRM From New Orleans

Interested in what's happening at the the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conference this week? I confess, I haven’t attended an HR conference in a few years although I used to attend frequently, and even presented at many of them, on occasion. This year, the SHRM conference visited a hot, humid New Orleans. I’ve been enjoying the commentary about SHRM and the conference in the blogosphere.

Read Punk Rock Laurie Ruettimann’s, often wry and hilarious commentary about the conference on her Punk Rock HR blog. Ever wonder what a Tweet Up is? They did an HR Tweet Up, a meet and greet session, for HR Twitter people in New Orleans. Heck, people are doing Tweet Ups in my local community, and probably yours, if you want to meet with people interested in networking and collaborating who hang out on Twitter - go.

Laurie says everyone at New Orleans is old. This matches my young colleagues’ assessment of SHRM conferences: many old people, old ideas, still catering to the traditional, but saying they’re not... What’s your take? I hear good, generous vendors.

Mary Ellen Slater on Workforce also blogged the conference. You’ll need to scroll, but I especially liked her comments about Jack Welch’s keynote and her roundup of blog posts from the HR community online.

Michael VanDervoort at Human Racehorses has another interesting take on SHRM and some of the pain people in HR are experiencing currently. Check it out.

Read any good or insightful SHRM conference coverage? Comment and share.

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