{"id":999881338,"date":"2012-10-23T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dice.npgdev.com\/?p=616755109"},"modified":"2012-10-23T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:58:00","slug":"hr-should-introduce-social-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dice.npgdev.com\/hiring\/recruitment\/hr-should-introduce-social-possibilities","title":{"rendered":"HR Should Introduce the Social Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcia Conner<\/a> is an internationally recognized adviser to the world’s largest organizations reinventing themselves and their workforce for the future. She closed down HR Executive\u2019s 15th<\/sup> Annual HR Technology Conference<\/a> in Chicago this year to a packed house of technologists, HR professionals, HR vendors, press, and pundits. We\u2019d just spent two and half days cramming our heads full of things we knew we should be doing, but weren’t. Conferences like #HRTech are meant to challenge us, and I\u2019m glad. But man, there\u2019s so much to do! Marcia certainly didn\u2019t cut us a break in her closing speech. In fact, I\u2019d say she delivered the one-two punch we all needed… HR tends to make excuses \u2013 like, IT is responsible for that, we\u2019re too busy, it\u2019s too risky, I\u2019m scared \u2013 for not being more involved in developing our organizations’ social technology strategy. We need to be in that discussion. We just do. It’s at the heart of how our employees communicate, connect, share, learn, develop, and generally get things done. Yet we sit by while other, less qualified professionals draw the lines around how social technology does or doesn’t fit within these four walls. In fact, Marcia claimed (and who could disagree?) that almost no new social technology initiatives come out of HR. While she shared her logically methodical approach to getting HR back in the game, a bunch of gold nuggets popped out for me (with a little of my own commentary):<\/p>\n