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Password Fatigue
password fatigue n. Mental exhaustion and frustration caused by having to remember a large number of passwords.
[via Word Spy]
Layoffspace: Social Networking for the Unemployed
Here’s an idea that’s timely: Social networking for the unemployed. Layoffspace is a place for the job displaced to share ideas and leads with each other. After all, the majority of jobs come from networking, not from cold calling. If your company uses annual RIFs as a “business strategy,” you might want to add Layoffspace as a resource for those employees who suddenly find themselves out of work with nowhere to turn.
[via HR Lori]
Hey, HR, You’d Better Hear This
I can hear you. Got gossip? Sit next to me.
I just saw this reference to overhear.us on TechCrunch and had to go check it out. And if you’re running HR or IT policy, you might want to check it out, too. Here’s how overhear.us describes itself:
Some things you need to say at work are hard to say at work. So every organization has a “grapevine” for information that’s too sensitive for company email. The problem with the grapevine is that it’s inefficient. Word spreads from person to person via phone calls and conversations in hallways. By the time a story gets to you, who knows how much it’s changed?
Overhear.us is your new web grapevine. It lets information spread instantly between coworkers. It’s more private than a public forum because you need an email address within your organization to participate. But it’s safer than using internal email, because it’s hosted at our site.
This isn’t just a site for people to complain about the organizations they work for. We think grapevines are a good thing. Most organizations would be worse off without them.
Information is going to spread between coworkers. Overhear.us ensures that it at least spreads quickly and accurately.
Forewarned is forearmed. Rumors are one thing, but having those rumors documented on a website using a company e-mail address? Hmmm.
What Everybody in HR Ought to Know About RSS
Last week I wrote What Everybody in HR Ought to Know About Blogs and How To Read Them Fast. That article got a lot of airplay and it seemed like it worked. I suggested that everyone should stop reading KnowHR Blog - at least in the conventional way - and our RSS readership spiked 25% right away. Cool.
So, when I saw this video on Open Culture called RSS in Plain English, I thought it was the perfect complement to the other article. You could call this What Everybody in HR Ought to Know About RSS. If you want to keep up with the best and brightest writing in HR, here’s a simple explanation of how to do it. With RSS (really simple syndication) the news comes to you instead of you looking for something new.
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