First week of the HR Systems class. We learned about Web 2.0 and “The Five Pillars of Consumer Tech” among other things. As of right now there’s nothing that I can apply to my profession or personal life… yet.

 I’m very interested to learn what HR Systems my new classmates have used and what HR Tech problems they will be presenting in class. On the drive back home, I was pondering what problem that I would tackle and I think I’ve narrowed it down to something that I’d be able to present to the class. I shall deliberate and blog about it next week.

Pleasant coincidence that this week is the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There should be oodles of cool tech news that can apply to the HR world in someway or another. Time to start trolling through the rss feeds. 

I’m quite excited about this class. I love the fact that this paperless. I focused in sustainability in grad school so this is really right up my alley. One thing that I did notice is that it can be very overwhelming for someone to sign up for so many different social tools at once (Twitter, blogging, gdocs etc.) Maybe in the future there may be a way to consolidate the tools so it’s not such a shock for people that aren’t necessarily prone to using these services. Perhaps sub in  Google+ for Twitter? That would make it so everything was “under one roof”.