Naomi Lee Bloom Podcast Thoughts (Bill Kutik Radio Show)

In this podcast, Bill Kutick introduces Naomi Lee Bloom, the managing partner of Bloom and Wallace.  Naomi Lee Bloom said that companies should look under the covers in regards to purchasing new Human Resource programs from vendors. She recommends companies to develop scenarios for vendors to demonstrate how this program will execute those particular scenarios. Companies need to know the functionality and how the programs works.  Naomi states that there is a new appreciation to companies signing up to vendors. Companies are signing up for the vendor's best practices.  Some best practices can not be changed and should be kept unique. This will show what this vendor's product can or can not do.  Naomi Lee Bloom's main point in regards to a new hr program is to apply the same standards that you would with an hr practitioner to candidates, employees to vendors.  Naomi Lee Bloom also states that the reason why Bloom and Wallace is on top of the HR world is because of the constant research and integration of new technologies. 

HR's Struggle with Web 2.0

Wow, This article hits dead on with my organization. From what I know. The process that is used to recruit candidates is through our UC Berkeley website. We post our open positions online for the public to see and hope for candidates to respond and submit a resume. This is the only time our department uses the web in the process to finding a suitable candidate. There is no active search through the web or through any possible means of marketing our open positions out to the public. There is no active searches on social networks such as Facebook, Linkedin, Myspace or any other kinds of social networking applications.  The way we keep track of the resumes submitted for a specific position is by manually filing them alphabetically, and by date of when the candidate contacted.  One of my projects that was given to me a month ago was sorting our resumes to see if we had contacted them for an interview by comparing the HR Director's Calendar to the resumes. We have filing cabinets filled with resumes. Even if we started to use Web 2.0 as a possible recruiting tool, our IT department and our school must go through many processes to get it approved. If the use of Web 2.0 applications were to be approved, that would same so much time, money, and be a lot more sufficient. 

ESF Catering: How to promote the business Charter

http://www.esfcatering.com

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This page created on November 18, 2008 by Eric Chu

Problem Statement                                                                                                                                                             

ESF Catering has been in a business slump for about four weeks. The reviews of the last event when 

very well, however there has been no inquires or reservations for any future events. Since ESF Catering  is operated by solely one person, in what way can one person gain more client retention? The Founder  would like to investigate and implement an effective campaign to promote the business by 12/31/09.

The founder would like to investigate how Web 2.0 Technology applications can promote the business. 

Problem Detail                                                                                                                                                                        

• Investigate other Catering Company Websites, and creating an ESF Catering Wiki.

Customers                                                                                                                       

• Current and Future Clientele

 

Business Case                                                                                                                                                                        

ESF Catering needs more demand for their services and to build ongoing relationships 

with companies. To advertise awareness through Web 2.0 Technology.

In Scope                                                                                                                                                                                  

• Solution to create ESF CATERING Wiki or a running website.

 

Out Scope                                                                                                                                                                                  

• Hiring a Web Designer to create a company website, not a wiki, 
• Promote business through social networks such as Facebook, Myspace, Blogspot .
• Maintenance of the Company Website.
• Building an on- call staff for future events.

 

Success Metrics                                                                                                                                  

• Increase of catering inquiries due to the website.(Email, blogs, voice-mails)
• Increase of Website visits (Counter) 

Deliverables                                                                                                                     

• Implementation of Social Networking Applications
• Communication Plan

                                                                                    

Resources                                                                                                                       

• Project Management/Analysis - Eric 
• Technical- (Hired Help)

The Machine is Us/ing US Thoughts

" The Machine is Us/ing Us" video was very informative. It shows us how human contribution will continue to create new technologies.  The video showed the evolution of HTML coding to XML coding. The original web was described as information only but now Web 2.0 is linking people together where people are now sharing,  trading, collaborating information and not just linking information. A real life example of people now sharing, trading, and collaborating information would be this class.  We are constantly sharing information, insight, and have the ability to collaborate without physically being in the same room.  Jun has introduced us to Web 2.0 applications that will benefit us for the rest of our lives. 

Comment on the Article "New 2008 Social Technographics data reveals rapid growth in adoption"

I believe that this article, "New 2008 Social Technographics data reveals rapid growth in adoption" has a great deal of truth and very accurate predictions of the years to come in regards to Social Technographics. To be quite honest, I was probably considered just a joiner before taking this HR Systems and Technology Class.  Now that I have been exposed to new applications, such as publishing blogs, publishing my own webpages, writing articles and stories to post, I can consider myself as a Creator. I agree with the article that the reason why the growth of Creators increased slightly was because of people not wanting to talk about themselves or anything else online. I was very uncomfortable to talk about myself on blogs before this class, but now, it's a different story. My comfort level has changed drastically.  I also believe that the percentages of Creators will continually grow in minimal way.  My sister and I introduced social networks to my parents so that can communicate easier with family friends, and colleagues. I am proud that my father now has a Linkedin account and also a Facebook account. My mother is still resistant to technology but now she is reading online forums and customer ratings/reviews. At this time last year, my parents would fall under the Inactive Level.  This is an example of the increase in Joiners and Spectators from 2007 to 2008.

What Level does my Organization fall on the CMM

In my organization, I believe that the level they fall under on the Capability Maturity Model would be Level 3 (Process Standardization).  Process Standardization is what upper management focuses on. Our Human Resource, Accounting, IT Department, Purchasing, and Research Team all follow a standardized process.  However our Travel/Reimbursement department has been in dire need to standardize their travel and reimbursement processes. Purchase Orders were back up for months and students and Professors were not getting reimbursed in a timely fashion. The lack of a supervisor did not help either.  Upper management, myself, and the reimbursement team sat down together to figure out a standardized process to make sure all Purchase orders were process in a timely matter. In that meeting we development key requirements on what steps to follow, and what goals needed to be met. We also brought in our IT programmer to help create a more functional online system to submit, store, and keep records of the purchase orders. Other than our Travel/ Reimbursement department our organization would be considered defined. I believe that the Travel and Reimbursement Department would fall under Level 2 (Managed) for now.

Is YOUR company in tune with Web 2.0??

My reaction after reading this article was …um what? It was  a little bit to much..

 To summarize this article in a few sentences,  is to highlight the differences of  Web 2.o. to Web 1.o

 

Web 1.0		Web 2.0
DoubleClick	-->	Google AdSense
Ofoto	-->	Flickr
Akamai	-->	BitTorrent
mp3.com	-->	Napster
Britannica Online	-->	Wikipedia
personal websites	-->	blogging
evite	-->	upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation	-->	search engine optimization
page views	-->	cost per click
screen scraping	-->	web services
publishing	-->	participation
content management systems	-->	wikis
directories (taxonomy)	-->	tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness	-->	syndication

 

With Web 2.o,  there is no hard boundary  but has a gravitational core.  The focus of strategic position of Web 2.o  is the platform of the web. The core competencies: consists of services, not package software, architecture of participation, cost-effective scalability, remixable data source and data transformations, software above the level of a single device, and harnessing collective intelligence. Web 2.0 was created to evolve web based communities, social networking sites, blogs, tagging, and wikis. In my organization I am not sure what system the HR Department uses but I definitely know we are  not Web 2.o. I do not think we will be Web 2.o for many many years.