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Facetime - I'm out and about at the HR Director's Summit and Learning Technologies

Posted by Charlie Duff on Thu, 20/01/2011 - 10:47
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Next week I'm hitting the road with HRzone (and TrainingZone.co.uk) for a couple of events: it's be great to see you there!

 

First up is the HR Director's Business Summit in Birmingham on 24 and 25 (Mondya and Tuesday) - I am holding the official tweet up with Jon Ingham, who you may know from the HRzone or from the #ConnectingHR community. We'll be holidng a 'Twitterversity' for newbies and netwroking for eveyone who attends. It should be fun and if you are coming to the event in Birmingham it'll be an ideal time to meet up. I will also be around all conference so if you want to meet up just let me know - it's easiest to email me on editor@hrzone.co.uk.

If you aren't attending I will be a running a Cover it Live event on site so you can still catch up with the gossip and see all the tweets in one place.

The same goes for the other event I will be attending with the TrainingZone.co.uk team on 26 and 27 January. We are exhibiting at the Learning Technologies conference, which is held at Olympia 2, London. This time we are hosting a tweet up of our own at our stand, number 81, upstairs on the exhbition floor at 1pm on Wednesday 26, the first day of the show. We've set up an Eventbrite page so you can let us know you're coming (and it's all free, so do grab a ticket). Both Jon Kennard, editor of Traningzone.co.uk and myself are looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible there, but we will of course also be running a Cover it Live text box throguhout the event. And I will be holding a live #ConnectingHR chat from the tweet up at the conference on the subject of learning and development.

So if you are going to either of those, let me know - email me or tweet me @hrzone or @charlie_elise - I'd love to catch up with you next week.

 

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They have a wonderful ability to get complex moral or social issues over to us in a palatable, easy-to-understand way and can provide many lessons if only we care to look just a little bit below the surface.
 
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Although we've been publishing book reviews (take a look at our Book Club list of suggested possible non-fiction works for evaluation here) for some time, you may also have noticed that we've been running a weekly home page blog on The Apprentice courtesy of The Chemistry Group for a while now.

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