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...
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