Does HR Get Social Media

Just how well does the broader HR community get social media? The answer to that question and many more about the state of social media in HR are revealed in this epsiode of the On the Record...Online podcast.
 
We talk to Tim Sackett (@TimSackett), EVP at HRU Technical Resources, a $40M IT and Engineering contract staffing firm and Recruiting Processing Outsourcers (RPOs) about a vareity of social media HR issues.
 
Prior to joining HRU, he was Director of Employment at Sparrow Health System and before that he was Regional HR and Staffing Director at Applebee’s International and has served others in similar capacities.  He’s split his career between recruiting and HR working for HR vendors and corporations.
 
Topics Discussed:
 

How is HR changing to accommodate social media in the workplace.
Challenges of managing social media usage among staffers at Applebee’s
Overcoming the operational challenges social media at work
Business case for HR to manage social media usage in the workplace
Social media compliance in an era of increasing regulation from government agencies such as the NLRB, FTC and SEC
Social media governance strategies
Strategies for educating large employee populations on social media literacy and compliance
Challenges of social media training for HR people, integrating personal and professional profiles and inefficiencies of live training
Corporate social media policy fairness, employee recruitment and retention
Risks of Equal Employment Opportunity charges due to social media

 
About the Podcaster:
 
Eric Schwartzman is Founder and CEO of online social media training provider Comply Socially, which helps employers manage the risk and capitalize on the opportunities of social media in the workplace.

He is also an independent communications consultant for hire to businesses, global nonprofits, the US Military, US Federal government agencies and foreign governments. His consulting services include digital strategy, social media audits, social media policy development, online public relations, social media marketing, search engine optimization and web development.

Schwartzman founded iPRSoftware, his best-selling book "Social Marketing to the Business Customer" is the first book devoted exclusively to social media for business-to-business communications, and he's founding chair of the Digital Impact Conference in NYC.
 
You can also find him on Google+.