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Social Media

If My Wife Can Get On Twitter, So Can You

by Lance Haun on June 24, 2010

I get the opportunity to speak a lot about social media and HR. One of the things I ask is how many people are using social media tools. Twitter is the one that gets the most non-responses. When I follow up, most people say they don’t participate because they don’t get it or they don’t [...]

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What Do HR People Need To Know About Social Media?

by Lance Haun on April 12, 2010

I am putting the finishing touches on a social networking presentation to the South Puget Sound SHRM Chapter and I wanted to get your take on this question: What do HR people need to know about social media? What networks should they be on? What opportunities are there? What dangers are there? Where should they [...]

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Let’s Stop Blaming Lawyers For Business Decisions

by Lance Haun on March 22, 2010

You’ve heard it before either in the board room, an industry conference or webinar: someone heard from their legal team that they shouldn’t be engaging in some sort of new business activity. The latest version of this has been social media but it has come through the years with various regulatory and technological changes. We [...]

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Why You Should Be Screwing Up In Social Media

by Lance Haun on March 18, 2010

Note from Lance: We had a great week in San Diego here at the ERE Expo and you should check out some of the great speakers we had (and unlike many conferences, ERE livestreams and captures much of the content featured at the show and gives it out free of charge). Here’s my post for [...]

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You Want Social Networking? You Get The Good With The Bad

by Lance Haun on August 25, 2009

This morning, Brazen Careerist released a completely revamped site. They have moved slowly from a small, Gen Y focused blog network to a fairly robust social network for millennials to manage their careers. It has been a cool transition and I’ve made some great contacts on there (too many to name here). Unfortunately, I’ve also [...]

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How Having A Blog Landed Me A New Job

by Lance Haun on August 3, 2009

If you’re a blogger, you know the feeling. You just sat down at your computer and you are a paragraph into a blog post when it suddenly hits you: apathy. “Why am I doing this?” you ask yourself. It may be the worst paying job in the world (most people do it for free or [...]

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