What Everybody in HR Ought to Know About Blogs and How to Read them Fast
I’ll make this quick, I know you don’t have much time. None of us do.
If you clicked to get here or typed in the URL for this…stop it. No, don’t stop reading KnowHR Blog, just be more efficient. Here’s how:
- Sign up for Google Reader. Sure, there are a hundred RSS readers out there. Don’t bother. Use Google Reader. Give them an e-mail address and you’re on your way.
- Right click on that orange thingy on blogs that you like. That orange button with the radio waves on it is an RSS button. That’s how you subscribe to the blog. Like magic, you copy the feed location, add the feed into your Google Reader, categorize it, and then each time your favorite blogs are updated…voila! they’re in your Reader.
- Find some really great blogs and online magazines to read. If you follow this Human Resources search on Technorati, you’ll see that there are 709 HR-related blogs listed. (Including KnowHR Blog on the first page.) If you click on the “Download OPML” file on the upper right, you can download the feeds for all of them…and then import them into your Google Reader. I’d suggest you start smaller. Click on a few that look interesting. If they are, click on that little orange thingy and add them to your RSS reader.
Okay, that’s it. You can read a lot of material fast by following steps 1-3 here. And as a bonus, I’ve added some links for you for HR specialty areas (just download OPML and import that into your Google Reader - under Settings-Import/Export - it’s really that simple.):
- Human Resources. 709 choices.
- Recruiting. 60 choices.
- Compensation. 35 choices.
- Motivation. 23 choices.
- Benefits. 48 choices.
Okay, get your RSS on. Here’s a starter for you…the RSS feed for KnowHR Blog is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KnowhrBlog. Just copy that bad boy into your Google Reader using the “Add Subscription” button. It’ll just get added…and you can put in a category if you like (believe me, starting out with categories early is the right approach).
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JT
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Thanks for brining this up...I think I'll clean up the text on this post a bit because it's confusing on the re-read.
JT, thanks, my friend. I know there's lots of ways to skin a cat, but I thought I might as well give the straightforward, simple one that I use. It works, and who can argue against that?
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Kudos for the great advice. My informal, anectodal polling suggests to me that many in the world of HR do not use RSS readers. Whenever I ask groups of HR folks if they are using a RSS reader, I get this really blank look. At that point I move on.....
robert edward cenek, RODP
www.cenekreport.com
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Scott, "Please write in English" is the very best advice of all. I'm fortunate right now to be working with a client (an HR executive) who is the clearest at speaking and writing that I've ever seen. It is a breath of fresh air...and his (very, very large) company's employees appreciate that.
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