This Sunday morning, I am getting up at the crack of dawn to travel southeast to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) annual conference in New Orleans. What that means for you is that you will get up to the minute coverage of all of the happenings in New Orleans. If you haven’t seen my schedule yet, it is absolutely loaded. Sessions, meetings, dinners, tweetups, parties… folks, it is a rough life.
I am looking forward to meeting some great bloggers, people doing cool things in our space and getting some swag. I am not into humidity or heat though. This is why I live in the Northwest United States. I am trading sunny and 80 degrees for 95 degrees and a billion percent humidity. Something close to that.
Anyway, we are going to have some great coverage from the SHRM conference. Here are some of the places I’ll be at:
- This blog will be updated frequently with the latest info next week
- I’ll be updating from Twitter
- You can follow the other tweets from the SHRM conference by following the #SHRM09 tag on Twitter (RSS feed)
- I’ll be posting links to other great posts from the conference
- We’ll be video streaming the panel session I am participating in on this blog (Wednesday at 11:30am Central).
If you are not into conference coverage, take the week off on me. Catch some sun, enjoy some BBQ and look at the fireworks. Then come back next week. We’ll be back to regular stuff.
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I enjoyed the tweet up, too. Did you get this word about KODA.US, one of the sponsors of the tweet up?
“Authenticity was the word of the day at the 2009 SHRM conference in New Orleans last week, when more than 7,000 of us gathered in search of comraderie, crawfish and creative insights.
One of the insider finds in New Orleans was Koda.us, an on-line recruiting gold mine for both HR people and the talent we seek. On Koda, businesses and potential employees come together as friends, sharing useful information that is not always present in one-dimensional resumes or on corporate web sites. Such transparency is what makes a good hire for the HR person and a good career fit for the talent. KODA is a Native American word for “friend.” For HR people, it can also mean success.”