How to Give Your Business Card
You can just hand over your business card in some nervous fumble. You can do the Japanese-style two-hand-and-bow method. You can toss your cards on the table and let people grab one. Or, you can hand over your business card with a magic trick that makes it look like your card is printing out right in front of their eyes.
Want a place at the table? Show them a little magic.
2000 Bloggers
First movers intrigue me to no end. Tino Buntic’s 2000 Bloggers is one of those ideas. Tino posted the photos of 2000 bloggers across the world, from A-listers to Z-listers. Hey, I even made the list! Here’s his premise:
5 million blogs…
I’d like to showcase all of them, but I’ve settled on just 2000 bloggers.
Bloggers come from all walks of life! Some are SEO experts. Some are writers. Some are sports enthusiasts. Some are affiliate marketers. Some are business professionals. Some are political. ALL HAVE OPINIONS!!!
Some bloggers blog to make money. Some do it for fun.
There are dozens of social networks that bring the blogosphere together, with Technorati and MyBlogLog being two of the biggest. I wanted to bring a whole bunch of bloggers together on one page. 2000 bloggers to be exact!
One of the cool things about social media is the connections. That’s really what we look for in HR, too. We’re always searching to create a conversation — what some call “engagement.” Novel ideas are out there. And creativity counts. Want to see if there’s anything new under the sun? Check out 2000 Bloggers. Do something novel and click on 10 pictures. See if you find something new and interesting. If they are, bookmark them on del.icio.us or in your RSS reader. There are 55 million blogs out there, each with a story to tell. And…you get bonus points if you can find my picture out there!
UPDATE: I posted a 2000 Bloggers page with all the pictures.
Technorati Tags: 2000 Bloggers, creativity
Awesome Music, Innovative Business Plan
What do you get when you mix …
- the music streaming of last.fm with
- the viewer feedback of American Idol with
- the predictive power of idea futures markets and
- the payoff of Project Green Light or My Dream App ?
It’s SellaBand.
Users vote with $10 shares (or “parts”) who should get the green light for a trip to the studio. Sound familiar? Here’s the new twist — the investors in the winning band get some of the profits.
The totally liquid market lets you swap your investment to another band in a snap, but when $50,000 rests on one band their contract is triggered. I suspect this leads to some really interesting game theory applications as the totals get close (my math geekery is hard to suppress). Two bands have already made it - but this is not a competition that just ends, it is a continuing strategy to get new talent together with new money.
Multi-Touch Computing
Okay, this doesn’t have much to do with human resources…today. But Perceptive Pixel’s multi-touch computing [video] is super cool, and I can just imagine in a few years, HR pros sitting in front of a multi-touch panel and moving data around, organizing information, and allocating bonuses with their ten fingers. It’s artistry. Wow, the possibilities. When multi-touch computing gets commercialized, you can be the Picasso of HR.
[via Data Mining]
What Would You Write for Your Personal Annual Report?
I know, two “cool” posts in a row. But I’m shunted onto a design and architecture siderail right now and I’m following that path. So, when I came across designer Nicholas Feltron’s 2006 Annual Report on Swissmiss, I thought I should share. Besides what a fantastic concept a personal annual report is, I was thinking what an HR Annual Report might look like. Then I started thinking, “Let’s stamp out bad performance review systems. How cool would it be if employees created a personal annual report instead of getting the one hour seven-things-you-did-right-and-three-things-you-did-wrong performance review?”
I’m going to start scrapbooking for my 2007 personal annual report right away. So far, I can add “two Starbucks’ cinnamon dolce lattes” to my liquid metric. And I’m going to put some more thought into this device as a performance review. I think this one has legs. Who says reading artsy sites is a waste of time?
Coming Soon: A review of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.
Technorati Tags: Nicholas Felton, personal annual report, performance reviews
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