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SHRM09 - 3 Reasons Why "SHRM Connect" Will Rock... And 3 Reasons It Will Die a Death That Involves Twitching...

Source: The HR Capitalist

Jul 01, 2009

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Capitalist Note: I'm on the scene at the SHRM 2009 National Conference in New Orleans. So the news is all-SHRM, all the time. I might bash the organization many love to hate or hug it out with the organization people rely on for cheap access to Sheryl Crow with Convention Center sound quality. I'm tricky like that....

So SHRM Connect is out in beta form.... For those of you that have no clue, SHRM Connect is the social networking play from SHRM, the pure HR play/answer to Facebook, RecruitingBlogs.com, or every other Ning network you've ever subscribed to.

I took a spin. It's either going to be huge or die a slow death inside the walls of SHRM. With that in mind, here are the 3 Reasons why SHRM Connect may be a great success at SHRM:

1. SHRM's a battleship, and nobody brings the scale that SHRM does to the table. 250K in auto-generated accounts will do that for you (every active member of SHRM has an account waiting for them, they just have to claim it)....Again, that's a quarter of a million members to the social network IF they sign in...

2. SHRM's the t

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