hrblogs.org - beta http://hrblogs.org free blogs for HR Professionals Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:20:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU en New blog creation http://hrblogs.org/2006/09/06/new-blog-creation/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/09/06/new-blog-creation/#comments Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:20:06 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/09/06/new-blog-creation/ The number of real blogs vs spam blogs being created here has got so small that I have decided to remove the new blog creation link.  If you want a new blog on the site please email me and I will set up up.  You can get me at michael at specht dot com dot au.

Sorry for if this causes you any issues. 

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/09/06/new-blog-creation/feed/ Quadruple century http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/29/quadruple-century/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/29/quadruple-century/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:45:21 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/29/quadruple-century/ We have now broken the 400 blog mark over at community.hrblogs.org, with well over 500 posts in a 24 hour period.  Being one who subscribes to the overall RSS feed from the site it is now wonder it is taking me so long to get through my RSS reading!

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/29/quadruple-century/feed/ hrblogs.org back up and running http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/22/hrblogsorg-back-up-and-running/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/22/hrblogsorg-back-up-and-running/#comments Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:23:00 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/22/hrblogsorg-back-up-and-running/ After several hours of research, bug fixing and testing I have got hrblogs.org back up and running.  Sorry if the outage has impacted you in any way.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/22/hrblogsorg-back-up-and-running/feed/ Comment Spam Update http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/01/comment-spam-update/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/01/comment-spam-update/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:46:44 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/01/comment-spam-update/ Spam Karma 2″ to confirm the settings are as you require. Some themes may not be 100% [...]]]> Over the last couple of days I have found the problems with Spam Karma 2.2 and arranged for it to be installed across the whole site.  Please ensure that you log in to your admin panel, click “Options > Spam Karma 2″ to confirm the settings are as you require.

Some themes may not be 100% compatible with SK2, if you have any problems please let me know.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/01/comment-spam-update/feed/ Spam Karma 2.2 Installed http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/27/spam-karma-22-installed/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/27/spam-karma-22-installed/#comments Sat, 27 May 2006 03:39:24 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/27/spam-karma-22-installed/ I have noticed few couple of the blogs at http://hrblogs.org have been hit with comment spam over the last few days. To combat this I have installed Spam Karma 2.2 on the site. Please let me know if you have any trouble with it.

Ok, I have uninstalled it as there seemed to be a number of issues.? While it worked on the development environment it did not on the production servers.? Back to the drawing board!?

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/27/spam-karma-22-installed/feed/ 11 sites added to community.hrblogs.org http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/25/11-sites-added-to-communityhrblogsorg/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/25/11-sites-added-to-communityhrblogsorg/#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 21:05:55 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/25/11-sites-added-to-communityhrblogsorg/ While I was away another 11 sites registered themselves in community.hrblogs.org, taking the total number of sites to over 360.

Also a few of you mentioned the site, thanks.  It seems this was all started by Diane Pfadenhauer from the Strategic HR Lawyer.  Thanks Diane.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/25/11-sites-added-to-communityhrblogsorg/feed/ HR Blogs Community Update http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/25/hr-blogs-community-update/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/25/hr-blogs-community-update/#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:06:53 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/25/hr-blogs-community-update/ Over the last couple of days I have had two bug reports on community.hrblogs.org, both have been killed.  Thanks to Glenn and Gautam. I have also added another 4 sites to the list, including a couple from India.

One feature I have been thinking about is the ability to categorise by country.  I am yet to do this as I think a majority of the sites are US-specific.  I will see how things go.

Once again if you find any bugs or missing sites just let me know.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/25/hr-blogs-community-update/feed/ Jim has brought me out http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/21/jim-has-brought-me-out/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/21/jim-has-brought-me-out/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:41:50 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/21/jim-has-brought-me-out/ Jim Durbin has begun a discussion at Recruiting.com on a Link Swap to promote HR related blogs. While the promotion of HR blogs is a fantastic idea but a straight out link swap is probably not the best way to go about it.

Good blogs require good content, good content gets noticed and the blog gains readers.  For us to have a great HR blogosphere we need great content.

But it is not easy to get noticed, you need to gain the attention of readers.

Last year I created an OPML file of all the HR related blogs I could find, around 190 at the time. In January Double Dubs suggested that I use the hrblogs.org to help promote and create more of a community within the HR blogosphere as the OPML file was only useful to techie people. He also suggested that I should try and make a tool to help new entrants to the blogosphere find other HR blogs.

I have been a bit slow in getting my act together, sorry Double Dubs.  But Jim’s discussion has prompted me to let loose in the wild community.hrblogs.org! This little animal is not really house trained but I thought others might find it useful to see what people are talking about and what HR blogs are out there. I will try and train the animal so that it does not spontaneously self-destruct every so often and to provide it with more features.  But for now you will have to put up with an untrained animal.

The features right now:-

  • Consolidated listing of over 340 HR related blogs, categorised by type
  • Ability to sort listing by Technorati rank, date last updated an alphabetically
  • Ability to show the latest posts from an individual site and subscribe to the feed
  • Ability to view to a consolidated RSS feed of the overall site, or by particular category, and scroll through all posts tracked 30 posts at a time.
  • Ability to subscribe to a consolidated RSS feed (last 30 posts) of the overall site, or by particular category. If you are only interested in Employment Law then subscribe just to that category.
  • Consolidated OPML file of all sites, broken up by category.
  • There is also a Top 10 lists section showing either consolidated or by category the last 10 sites updated, the top 10 as ranked in Technorati.
  • Submit a site form, if I have missed you site and you want to get listed, fill in the form. If I have listed your site and you don’t want to be listed or the information is wrong drop me an email.

An interesting statistic, of the 342 blogs, there have been over 220 posts in the last 24 hours. Yesterday there was over 1 post a day.

I hope some of you find this new site useful.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/21/jim-has-brought-me-out/feed/ A new colour scheme http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/06/a-new-colour-scheme/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/06/a-new-colour-scheme/#comments Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:02:37 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/06/a-new-colour-scheme/ I am currently playing with the colour scheme for the main site and will continue to change it over the next couple of weeks.  Why?  Because I would like to align it to the colour scheme being used on a new site (it is a secret at the moment  )

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/06/a-new-colour-scheme/feed/ 50 blogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/01/15/50-blogs/ http://hrblogs.org/2006/01/15/50-blogs/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:48:10 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2006/01/15/50-blogs/ We have reached 50 blogs on hrblogs.org, a great achievement (we did have 200 at one point but 150 where splog, spam blogs that I killed).

Once again if you know anyone who is an HR professional and would like a free Wordpress blog, send them here.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2006/01/15/50-blogs/feed/ hrblogs OPML File http://hrblogs.org/2005/12/03/hrblogs-opml-file/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/12/03/hrblogs-opml-file/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:22:49 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/12/03/hrblogs-opml-file/ I have been updating the OPML file with about 20-30 new blogs that I have come across in the last couple of months.  The listing now stands at 255 and this excludes all of the Education Blogs found at edublogs.org where I am sure there are many that would fit into the eLearning area.

The other thing is I have moved the location from www.specht.com.au to hrblogs.org at hrblogs.org/opml/hrblogs.opml, there is a redirect on the old site if you happen to be using the file for your feeds.

If you have a blog on HR or related to HR let me know and I will add you, this way anyone who wants to find a good quality blog on HR they know where to go.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/12/03/hrblogs-opml-file/feed/ Support forums and RSS http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/29/support-forums-and-rss/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/29/support-forums-and-rss/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:19:33 +0000 Michael Support http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/29/support-forums-and-rss/ If you are just like me and you just MUST get all of your content in RSS then the HRBlogs Discussion Forums is for you, we now have an RSS feed available at http://hrblogs.org/forums/rss.php, get subscribing to stay up to date with the goings on!

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/29/support-forums-and-rss/feed/ Recently updated blogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/28/recently-updated-blogs/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/28/recently-updated-blogs/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:35:27 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/28/recently-updated-blogs/ I have just added a list on the right hand side of recently updated blogs and the total number of posts on the blog. 

Next step, combined RSS and OPML files if you are a blog owner and have issues with being in a combined RSS and OPML file drop me a line.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/28/recently-updated-blogs/feed/ Discussion forums http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/13/discussion-forums/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/13/discussion-forums/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:38:29 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/13/discussion-forums/ hrblogs.org now has support forums, I was looking to get bbPress up and running but decided to go with something more stable, phpBB.

There is a general HRIS discussion forum as well as an experiment, to see if the industry needs such an environment, feedback?

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/13/discussion-forums/feed/ Once again more themes http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/12/once-again-more-themes/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/12/once-again-more-themes/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:01:41 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/12/once-again-more-themes/ I have updated the themes on the site and we now have well over 60 themes to choose from most with pictures thanks to James Farmer.  If you are after a new look for your blog or want to start a new blog and work in HR please feel free to do so.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/12/once-again-more-themes/feed/ Future ideas for hrblogs.org http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/26/future-ideas-for-hrblogsorg/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/26/future-ideas-for-hrblogsorg/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:10:20 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/26/future-ideas-for-hrblogsorg/ I am growing hrblogs.org slowly and while I have a large list of what I would like to see on the site time just does not allow for everything in one go. Following this theme I noticed a “review” of sorts on scale|free a week or so ago with some very useful ideas and thoughts. The register your HR blog idea is along the lines of what I did with the HR Bloggers OPML file, I even hacked up a self registration system but did not use it because I could not secure the process from spammers. A couple of the other ideas are in the works and I hope to leverage the work from WPMU community to get these up and going.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/26/future-ideas-for-hrblogsorg/feed/ HR Blogger OPML File http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/23/hr-blogger-opml-file/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/23/hr-blogger-opml-file/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:27:59 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/23/hr-blogger-opml-file/ I have just added a link to the large OPML file I have on my other site, while right now it has not been updated in a few weeks I plan to add to it very soon, it is still a great place to get going if you want to begin reading some other HR blogs out there.

I am also working on an OPML file for hrblogs and there is a push within the WordPress MultiUser community to have a combined RSS feed for all of the sites hosted on a service, once this is available I will add this as well.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/23/hr-blogger-opml-file/feed/ Using themes http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/09/using-themes/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/09/using-themes/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:35:15 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/09/using-themes/ One of the really good things about Wordpress is the easy of changing the way things look via Themes.  Here at hrblogs.org you have a total of 35 different themes to choose from when setting up your blog, a different one for everyday of the month!

Not all of the themes will suit you but if you keep looking I’m sure you will find one that does.  If not and you find one at codex.wordpress.org that you like let me know and I will upload it.

So how do you select a theme?  Goto the Presentation option in the Admin dashboard and click on one!  It is that easy. 

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/09/using-themes/feed/ More themes http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/20/more-themes/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/20/more-themes/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:29:39 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/20/more-themes/ Today I uploaded 10 new themes to take the total count of themes to 35 available to hrblogs users.  I am also looking at the installation of some Plugins that will help expend the functionality of the blogs hosted here.  One of the best plugins I have found for Wordpress is the “Subscribe to Comment via Email” which is a fantastic way of keeping the conversation going.  If you have a favourite plugin or a feature you would like to see drop me a line and I will see what can be done.

]]> http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/20/more-themes/feed/ Import not working http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/18/import-not-working/ http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/18/import-not-working/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:30:26 +0000 Michael hrblogs http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/18/import-not-working/ Just a short note to let you all know that the import process is not working, I am hoping for a fix over the next few days.  Once it is up and running you should be able to import your old posts from Blogger or MoveableType, etc into hrblogs.

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