No Impact Man and an HR Project
Some of My Best Friends Recycle
We recycle at our house. We talk about reducing our carbon footprint. We talk about global warming. And we drive an SUV. We buy bottled water. Food from far away. Small items in large plastic clamshell packaging. I can’t say that I’m proud of that. Which made me pay attention to an article by Seth Godin called “Noimpactman makes an impact.”
No Impact Man is a real person, on a real mission. I cut in his blog header above just because it’s so creative. Here’s what he says about his effort:
No Impact Man is my experiment with researching, developing and adopting a way of life for me and my little family—one wife, one toddler, one dog—to live in the heart of New York City while causing no net environmental impact. To do this, we will decrease the things we do that hurt the earth—make trash, cause carbon dioxide emissions, for example—and increase the things we do that help the earth—clean up the banks of the Hudson River, give money to charity, rescue sea birds, say.
Making a Real Impact Versus Talking About It
Interesting to me, to say the least. I was thinking that No Impact Man is on to something. He’s talking about making real impact, not just the cursory “I Recycle” kind of effort. It would be a pretty cool HR project that would get at the hard work of helping the environment. Every. Single. Day.
Clarity Starts at Home
I’m going to talk about this at iFractal on Monday. I’m going to see what we can do to get real about having an environmental impact. We’ll make a list and I’ll document it here. See, No Impact Man already made an impact. Maybe it’s something about blogs that start with the words “No” or “Know.”
Some Great Presentation Advice
The YouBlog has a post called Death by Memorization. It’s one of the best and most succinct pieces of advice I’ve read in a while about presenting to an audience. (BTW: Earlier this week I saw one of the best presentations I’ve ever seen. Prepared. Clear. Practiced. Extemporaneous. Wow.)
Sex Sells, but Not in Your Proxy Statement
News Corp. is in the media business, and in that business, sex sells. But not in their proxy statement. CNN reports:
News Corp. shareholders were in for an unexpected surprise if they called the proxy agent’s number listed on its latest filing.
The number listed for solicitation agent Georgeson Inc. was answered by an automated woman’s voice that said, “Get together with exciting people everywhere,” and directed callers to dial a different number sending them to a phone sex service.
The second number greeted callers with a woman’s voice seductively saying, “Hey sexy guy,” and eventually asking for the caller’s credit card number for callers interested in speaking to “nasty girls”.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the mistaken telephone number late Tuesday.
“Two numbers have been switched around, it’s a typographical error,” Andrew Butcher, a News Corp. spokesman told CNNMoney.com.
A little proofreading tip for HR communicators: Call ALL the numbers in your materials. Unless you want your proxy voters to get a sex line. Hey, that’s a way to get them to vote with the directors.
Bloopers from Job Interviews
I thought there were some pretty funny examples of bloopers from job interviewers in this piece by Diane Stafford.
Twitter and HR
Are you a Twit. Ever been Tweeted? If not, what are you doing?
“What are you doing?” is the question that Twitter, the latest social media rage, asks its users. If you’re not Twittering, your employees certainly are.
With Twitter, you can write about what you’re doing in 140 characters or less. You can track what your friends are doing. You can look at what the Twitterati are doing. And you can use the service as a message board.
Got a snowday alert? Twitter it. Going to an important meeting? Twitter it. Have an interesting link to share? Twitter it. All the cool kids are doing it. What are you doing?
If you want to know what I’m doing, you can find out by checking my profile: http://twitter.com/frankroche
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