Daily Archives: March 21, 2009
18th March Carnival of HR
I was not online on 18th March, as it was my father’s first death anniversary. However I would like to belatedly give a shout out to Erik at the i4cp blog for hosting the latest carnival of HR.
What’s the Carnival all about?
HR bloggers from across the world contribute their chosen blog posts to a fortnightly host who puts them on his/her blog.
Go ahead and read it to experience the joy 
Changes to LinkedinGroups
If you manage a Linkedin group here are some changes they have introduced. Here is what they commnicated over an email:
Sending Announcements
In response to overwhelming demand from group managers, we have created the ability for you to send group announcements directly from your LinkedIn group to your members, via email. Your announcement will also automatically be posted as a discussion within the group so members can comment on it together.As membership in LinkedIn groups continues to explode, we hear increasing concerns from our members about how their privacy is protected. Now that we have the Announcement feature, and in response to these concerns, we have removed the ability to download or view member email addresses.
RSS Feeds into Groups
Posting news items into groups has become very popular in the past couple months. So we’ve made it even easier for you to spark discussions around news and other Web content by enabling you to add RSS and Atom feeds to your group. You can pick up RSS and Atom feeds from your favorite sites around the web. News items from your feed will automatically show up under the News tab.Managing Job-Focused Discussions
Group managers now have full control over whether to enable the jobs discussion capabilities within your group. The jobs area enables members to discuss job opportunities in these difficult economic times without cluttering the main conversation, and like all discussions it’s free.Visit your groups today
Competencies of a Blogger
A friend asked via email.
do u have a list of competencies to certify someone on their proficiency in creating and managing a Blog?
I need this at the earliest. This is purely for internal process compliance. I am championing Blog initiatives within [company name]
So being a lazy bum who belives that the community is smarter than him I asked my Twitter folks and this is what they said
patrickallmond@gautamghosh Creativity. Fearlessness. Responsiveness. One thing to not look for: A good writer.
rkartha@gautamghosh I think a good blogger should be logical, should take a stand & be able to provide wider perspective on the subject! Agree?
rajeshblue@gautamghosh Strong nose to smell, sturdy fingers to type and the willingness live with being taken lightly for a while..at least..
abhishekrungta@gautamghosh A good blogger should be able to deliver concise and high quality insight on a given topic with a decent narrative to keep …
HemantM@gautamghosh Compassion and empathy I think. Makes a hell lot of difference if you connect with what you blog. It shows. IMO
What are the competencies you think a blogger should have?
Of course, the competencies of a blogger would be different depending on the purpose and objective of the blog. But the above advice hold true in most cases. However as someone DMed me on twitter writing ability is still important.
