#HR Tech Week

If you are interested in hearing from HR Technology leaders, discovering new solutions and insights to current HR technology-related challenges and chatting in real time with top HR professionals, Workforce Management Tech Week has just what you are looking for.  

Starting today, HR Tech offers 2 days of webcasts, webinars and scheduled chats. I'll be there tomorrow as a member of the panel, A Strategic Look at Social Media and HR. 

Led by blogger and HR executive extraordinare Kris Dunn, our panel will tackle topics such as the return on investment from social media inside an organization, whether and how employers ought to monitor employees’ social networking activities and which technologies on the horizon are most promising.

Who are my panel cohorts in crime? 

• Max Drucker | CEO/President, Social Intelligence
• Jason Lauritsen | First Vice President Human Resources, Union Bank & Trust Company
• Lisa Rowan| Program Director, HR and Talent Management Services, IDC

See you there or with Twitter hashtag #hrtechweek.

Battles Waged

There was an amazing milestone in the Rosendahl house last week as someone close to us officially became a cancer survivor. Diagnosed last year, she has now been given a clean bill of health. 

Celebrating this success, I am torn as I read with madness about another battle about to be waged. A woman I know - and adore - is heading down an all too familiar road as she faces her 3rd battle in as many years.

I just don't have the words to write and can't settle on one solid, unconflicted thought. I am really not interested in rainbows, quotes or lessons learned from the pains of others. 

It's not right. It's not fair. And it's much more than pink.