The SHRM State conferences continue and the HR Florida extravaganza is looming on the horizon, beginning on August 30. While everyone is welcome to read this post, consider this for all of the non-Florida residents, and those that are relatively new to the social media scene. If you have an HR Twitter friend who is new to social media, twitter, blogs, ect. send them a link to this post.
With the leadership of John Jorgensen the Illinois State Council brought social media to the forefront, of state conferences this year, coming on the heels of the SHRM National Conference in San Diego. While Illinois did a great job, the upcoming Florida event is something I would encourage all of you to follow, this year and even consider attending next year (that is this blogger’s plan). They will be using the Hashtag #HRFL10 to catalogue tweets. So if you search for that hashtag (#) you will be able to see most of the tweets coming from the event.
There are many reasons that you should look at this event. First, they have more than 1200 attendees already signed up (the number is probably greater before it is all said and done). According to Florida State Council’s Social media director Steve MG Harrison he has said that they have several hundred active twitter users, which means there will be a lot of tweeting coming from the event.
Florida is home to blogger Mike VanDervort . Mike will be in attendance and giving his insight into the events. Mike was in attendance at the Illinois State Council’s state conference (and did an excellent job covering the event). He recently told me that he has made nearly 1000 blog posts to his site.
Our home state blogger Trish McFarlane will be attendance too and will be tweeting and blogging. Trish too was in attendance at the Illinois State Council’s state conference (and did an excellent job covering the event).
Florida will be hosting a MONSTER tweet up on Monday evening. Monster’s main man Eric Winegardner will be there and coordinating the tweet up. – Sorry I am missing this event and the tweet stream should be “interesting.”
SHRM National’s Social Media director Curtiss Midkiff will be in Florida helping to promote and cover the event. Curtiss was at ILSHRM and provided us with some great assistance and entertainment.
The Recently launched Voice of HR a new business venture of Mark Stelzner and Laurie Ruettimann will be on-site and helping to promote the event via social media. This will be their inaugural event under this banner, and it should be most interesting.
China Miner Gorman former COO of SHRM will be in attendance and one of the Keynote presenters at the event. No doubt she will be tweeting and blogging about the event as well. China was NOT at ILSHRM10, but we will soon get her committed to attend in 2011.
Another one of this sites blogger favorites is Jessica Miller-Merrell. She is the author of http://www.blogggin4jobs.com/. She will be at HR Florida. Jessica will be presenting at the event. Her program is entitled HR is the new PR. I am sure Jessica will generate some great blog posts and a multitude of tweets, just like she did at SHRM National this year.
Host of HRHappy Hour and internet radio sensation Steve Boese will be at HR Florida and I believe I heard him say there will be two live broadcast coming from the event. Check the HR Happy Hour site to confirm live broadcast dates and times.
If you follow the HR stream on twitter there is another name you might recognize – Bill Boorman – the founder of TruEvents. Bill is from the U,K, and he too will be in attendance at HR Florida and probably posting on his blog.
UPDATE 8/23 Now add to your blogger roster... Jennifer Mc Clure http://twitter.com/CincyRecruiter/. Jennifer is in the people business and blogs at another one of ILSHRM blog favorites Unbridled Talent.
It is not my intention to slight anyone, I am sure I have left out others who will be at HRFL10, so I will apologize here. There are going to be a lot of the leaders in social media there, lots of tweeting and blogging going on so if you are not going to get to go, you can still participate actively via cyberspace. I would encourage all of you to check in this event. It will be a behemoth
Enjoy and good luck to all of our SHRM Friends in Florida!
Hey There,
ReplyDeleteThank for you this great intro for the HR Florida State Conference. As the state conference director, it's very exciting and encouraging to see such a large cadre of social media enthusiast/bloggers/speakers attending and encouraging attendance/participation.
At this point, we are over 1400 attendees and over 155 exhibitors - and at a week out, my team is working to finalize all last minute details to ensure a fantastic conference experience!
We have been committed to bringing social media to our constituents here in Florida and with the level of interest shown thus far, I think we are certainly on the right path.
Looking forward it all! Let's do this thing!!
Carol McDaniel
HR Florida State Conference Director
@carolmacd
Thanks for the mention of the HR Happy Hour show, Dave. I don't know about 'sensation', but we plan to have our usual mix of information and fun with the live shows, and to try and share as much information as we can about HR Florida to all the interested folks that can't be there.
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