Comments on: FIVE TO FOLLOW – Your suggestions?

By: Joan Ginsberg

Joan Ginsberg — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:44:53 +0000

NEVER too late to party, Dee. Thanks for your input – I like the fresh take and I had kind of forgotten about About.com!

By: Deirdre

Deirdre — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:20:31 +0000

Late to the party. Here are mine.

General business -Ask A Manager – all the unbelievable things you can learn from the people who ask the questions. It is fabulous.
Thoughts from an HR leader -Lisa Rosendahl
Thougths from someone on HR leadership – HR Bartender
Help and tools for the job hunt – Susan M. Heathfield at About.com (GREAT STUFF)
Not sure where to start? Alltop – http://hr.alltop.com/

By: Joan Ginsberg

Joan Ginsberg — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:38:40 +0000

Thanks to all of you above for sharing your thoughts and insight. As I said in the post, I could easily come up with a huge list of blogs, all wonderful, that I would happily recommend (even my own blog roll, Mike!). But narrowing it down to five blogs that are going to reel in the beginner and help them chose to get involved and reading is a far harder task. I knew that getting some comments would help me think through my tentative choices. I am also charged with making sure that those 5 choices excite people enough that the chapter wants to continue the feature on a monthly basis.

I’ll share the sidebar article with you when I complete it. THANKS AGAIN, Tim, Steve, Jennifer Miller, Jennifer McClure, Trish, Ben, Mike, Jessica, Krista, and Ben!

By: Krista Francis

Krista Francis — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:30:24 +0000

Here are five in no particular order, and obviously a list like this excludes many great blogs out there.

Steve Boese’s HR Technology
Renegade HR
Fistful of Talent
Creative Chaos Consultant
HR Ringleader

Just as importantly, I would tell them not to stop with HR blogs but to look for several solid business blogs, several in their specific industry, and several related to subjects they are passionate about. Sometimes we get too caught up in HR!

By: Benjamin McCall

Benjamin McCall — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:37:05 +0000

I agree that the http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/ by Dan McCarthy is cool.
There are a few others but I think the votes are pretty consistent.

By: jessica lee - fistful of talent

jessica lee - fistful of talent — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:51:09 +0000

thanks for the love, y’all!

i was actually at the DC-area SHRM chapter meeting on wednesday doing a presentation on social media for HR pros… and we talked about blogs and the six i actually recommended they start reading were…

Fistful of Talent
HR Capitalist
Renegade HR
Rehaul
HR Bartender
The Recruiter Guy

love all those folks and appreciate the smarts they share so, so much.

cheers!

By: Michael VanDervort

Michael VanDervort — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:36:36 +0000

What about this list that I found on your web site?

GREAT HR BLOGS

* Acquire
* Creative Chaos Consultant
* Deeply Rutted
* HR Bartender
* HR Gumbo
* HR Margo
* HR Minion
* HR Ringleader
* Info Box
* Junkyard HR
* Pseudo HR
* Punk Rock HR
* Simply Lisa
* The Human Racehorses
* Upstart HR
* Welcome to the Occupation

By: Ben Eubanks

Ben Eubanks — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:32:17 +0000

I’d put KnowHR and Renegade HR on the top of the list. Great stuff. Trish would be my third recommendation. The other two are debatable but have already been listed by others.

I do some writing on SHRM chapters specifically, so that may be helpful. Also, I do RocketHR for my local chapter, and I try to make it inclusive of the more traditional demographic, so…

Great job pushing social media and the great HR blogging community out there, Joan!

By: Trish McFarlane

Trish McFarlane — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:19:32 +0000

Joan, what a great idea to do this. I’ll point people new to HR/recruiting social media here now for sure. Thanks to those who included me on the list. Makes it all worthwhile for me to hear that people value what I’m writing.

Whenever I have someone new to the space, I give them one of two blogs. For HR pros, it is always FOT. Hands down the best collaborative blog out there in our industry. I love the diversity of topics and writing styles. Every person I’ve sent there is happy to be there and reading each day.

For recruiters, I always direct them to Recruitingblogs.com. Jason Davis and Maren Hogan do an outstanding job of bringing some great blogs together including Punk Rock HR. You can’t go wrong by directing people to this site.

Many of my personal faves have been named, so I’ll add:
Mark Stelzner’s Inflexion Point (great leadership blog, very practical)
Upstart HR by Ben Eubanks (HR energy that is contagious!)
i2i by Paul Hebert (smart, smart, smart)

By: Jennifer McClure

Jennifer McClure — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:04:44 +0000

Congratulations on being highlighted by your chapter Joan! And I love the idea of you submitting 5 blogs each month that the members should check out. Hopefully, many will take your suggestions and find some great new resources.

I’d struggle with only 5 too, but if pressed, I typically recommend these for HR pros just getting started with blogs:

1. The HR Capitalist – Kris Dunn provides daily solid content and “in the trenches” advice for HR pros – with a fun sense of humor and often connects his posts to current events and other business writings/trends.

2. Fistful of Talent – More solid, daily, fun content that’s also meaty stuff. I like the variety of voices and topics that show up there. HR is multi-faceted and this blog exposes HR pros to a good variety.

3. ERE.net Articles – While any Community member can blog within the ERE community (and there are many good blogs shared there), you can subscribe to the daily featured articles via http://www.ere.net/feed/. The majority of HR pros need to stay on top of recruiting and talent management issues and by subscribing to this feed, they’ll be exposed to some true industry veterans and thought leaders like Sullivan, Wheeler, Adler, etc. Good stuff.

4. HR Ringleader – Trish McFarlane is another HR pro who blogs about her experiences, thoughts and questions as a practicing HR leader. I’m sure her voice will resonate with many new blog readers who relate to Trish’s experiences.

5. Punk Rock HR – Laurie Ruettimann adds a doce of humor and spice to HR and regularly pokes the beast. I like having her different voice in the mix of HR blogs I read. I don’t always agree with her, but I think that a good blogger provokes the reader to think about their own opinions. Laurie certainly does that.

Geez – that was tough. There are so many more great blogs I’d recommend. At least you get to add 5 more each month.

And thanks Tim Sackett for including me in the same sentence as some of the Women of HR that I truly admire!