http://hrblogs.org free blogs for HR Professionals Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:20:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2006/09/06/new-blog-creation/ 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/ 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/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2006/06/01/comment-spam-update/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2006/05/27/spam-karma-22-installed/ 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/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/25/hr-blogs-community-update/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2006/04/21/jim-has-brought-me-out/ 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/ 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/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2005/12/03/hrblogs-opml-file/ 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/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/28/recently-updated-blogs/ 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/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2005/11/12/once-again-more-themes/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/26/future-ideas-for-hrblogsorg/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/23/hr-blogger-opml-file/ 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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2005/10/09/using-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 ... http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/20/more-themes/ 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. http://hrblogs.org/2005/09/18/import-not-working/