Live from HR Technology... I mean, hav u eva invNtd yor own lngwij?
Great New Technologies Just for You!
What a great session!! The Jasons were on today. Notes from attendee of session
Jason Averbook and Jason Corsello
Bill Kutick...You have to be a gen X'r to give this presentation...I don't understand any of this
The World Today...
One out of 8 couples married in 2006 met online
If MySpace were a country, it would be 11th largest country in the world; Avg MySpace page is visited 30 times per day
2.7 billion searches performed on Google...To whom were these questions addressed before Google?
Number of text messages exceeds the total population of the world
More than 3,000 new books published every day
"These teens were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create consume, remix and share material with each other." Lee Rainie - Director, Pew Internet and American Life Project....and they get to the corporate world and they're like..."are you kidding me?" go to the intranet and find content that says "last
Digital Natives - have never used a copy machine, never new life without a mouse, have even invented a new language, ex. POS (parents over shoulder)...
Digital Immigrant - that's mosst of us at HR Tech and creates a huge change management issue
Web 2.0 Video...do most people really know what it is?
These technologies are about collaboration
Blogs - help create a collaborative, non-hierarchical culture
Wikis - low cost easy way to collaborate on ideas
Mashups - new modalites; new development environments to bring 2 technologies together
All of this adds up to harnessing collective intelligence
Web 2.0 is not just about making applications looking cooler, it's about collaboration...s
Blogs
Wikis
Social media/social networking
Folksonomies (tagging, tag clouds)
Syndication (RSS, widgets, mashups)
Folksonomy - you design how you use the application based on how you want to use it, the software vendor doesn't do it for you
Key Web 2.0 Concepts:
Participation - used to worry about rolling out self-service and if anyone would come
Relationships
User Programmable
Immediate
Collective Intelligence
Perpetual Beta - upgrades just happening
Why is it different?
Moving from transactions to interaction
"IT of one" - no longer dependent on IT
Rich, user-friendly interface
"Training-less"
How many of you have gone to a Google training class?
Can you imagine a 24 year old sitting in a 3 day training class to learn to use an application...click here, click here, click here...
Blogs...
Culturing:
Ex. Southwest Airlines blog; way of communicating with employees and customers; get a good feeling for what the company is like before you even apply for a job; millennials look for this before they go to work for a company; Marriott is doing this
Talent Branding:
Ex. Honeywell; recruiters have a blog as a way to communicate with candidates
Social networks...
Challenge to the audience...go create a Facebook account and add Jason (Averbook) as a friend. If you do this in the next 2-3 days we can create a group of people who can continue to collaborate about new HR technologies.
Recruiters starting to use Facebook to post jobs, projects, and find people
RSS - Real Simple Syndication; way to push out relevant content to your interface of choice
