The title is a dead giveaway, and I am using the term ‘framework’ loosely. There have been regular clarion calls for major change, and waves of interest and activity aimed at transforming HR professionals to become (for example): business partners with line management. coaches to managers and professionals. MORE >>

In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. Friday, May 29, 2009 A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 Manyorganizations and software developers are trying to cobble these on tothe three lemons above to try to make these lemons lessuseless. MORE >>

Thanks to LinkedIn, I came across a pair of articles that talk about various "process improvement" methodologies and make some claims about which ones are better, or whether they can be combined. For an overview, I suggest Michael Baudin's blog post  first even though he wrote it in response to Kirkor Bozdogan's article. MORE >>

Is social media pure chaos to you? How can you better understand and utilize social media-powered communications tools and tactics? Social media is merely an extension of the things that many of us have already learned about via online communications, connections and communities: People want to communicate with other people. MORE >>

I just saw a post by George Siemens discussing evolution of PLE concept and pointed me to two posts by Chris Lott based on his initial question - "What does your PLE look like?" - Tired of PLE Flak and I'm not interested in the PLE which then pointed me to a bunch of other posts as well - on the PLE and An audit on where stand with PLEs. MORE >>