Joe Gerstandt | keynote speaker, freedom fighter, freak-flag flier

TGIF!  A quote and a picture.  Have a wonderful weekend. "What the people of the city do not realize is that the roots of all living things are tied together." -Chan K’in Viejo   

Just a few interesting statistics, for those of you that think you can just ignore the new technology: By March 2006, 84 million Americans had broadband at home, a 40% jump from 2005 figures By March 2006, some 48 million Americans were regular online content creators By the end of 2005, 139 million people in   [Read More…]

This is a pretty good article regarding ERGs and the ways in which they can help drive business results.  There are many, many ways that ERGs can be valuable and no diversity and inclusion effort should be without them.  ERGs can be very valuable vehicles for tapping into valuable insights from employees regarding policies (think   [Read More…]

  I had a great conversation over breakfast last Friday with some very cool people, and the topic of our conversation was Social Networking / Social Networking Sites (and to a lesser degree some other Web 2.0 applications) and how they are being used / could be used in the human capital / talent management   [Read More…]