Jim Durbin, SocialMediaHeadhunter
1. Why did you start your blog?
“My first blog was called Seeking Truth, and it was a political blog I wrote in June of 2002. It was followed by a personal blog later that month, that put me in the top 500 of bloggers worldwide as measured by the TTLB Ecosystem. I started blogging because planes flew into buildings – and the warbloggers provided an outlet for my thoughts.
Paul DeBettignies, MN Headhunter
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I started my blog May 2005 as a form of therapy and a way to connect with other recruiters. A small part was my interest in being able to be found. As a one man band in Minneapolis I had a good reputation with my clients but outside of that circle I was unknown so I thought if I had something people could look at (an online version of the brochure), to get to know me, the marketing side would be easier.
William Uranga, Talent Alchemy
1. Why did you start your blog?
“Selfishly, I started it out for me. I wanted to pen some of my thoughts on recruiting to reference in my recruiting class.”
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I’ve been writing about the human capital marketplace, its vendors trends and players, daily for over fifteen years. When I started, it was called “having a web page”. After I’d been doing it for six or seven years, I was an “industry analyst”. At ten years, it was called journalism and Google treated the work as a news source.
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Dan McCarthy, Great Leadership
1. Why did you start your blog?
“People have all sorts of cool reasons why they got into blogging, some of them really inspirational. I really admire that.
My inspiration was Jerry Alonzy and Jerrold Foutz, a couple old guys who struck it rich with ads by Google. Throw a blog up there and make $120,000 a year.
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Jennifer McClure, CincyRecruiter’s World
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I became really interested in blogs and an avid reader early in 2008 when I found Kris Dunn’s HR Capitalist blog from reading Workforce.com. As I read more, I began to subscribe to more, and the snowball started. (Today, I subscribe to over 300 blogs in Google Reader.) The more I read, I began to feel like the kid sitting on the sidelines watching all the cool kids play ball, so I began to think about starting my own blog within a couple of months. Thankfully, about that time, Kris put a call out on his blog for contributors for a new Talent Management Blog (eventually called Fistful of Talent) and I was quick to ask the Coach to put me in the game.
1. Why did you start your blog?
“Momma always said “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop”. A down economy, a holiday away from the office, Absolute Mandarin, no NFL on the tube and a blistering night at a Nine Inch Nails concert with two of the most ingenious technical guys I’ve hung out with - all led to the birth of The Anti Pimp. I’d always considered myself different that your average bear when it came to recruiting anyway. I’d spent enough time with these guys and they came clean about their perceptions of our industry - “most recruiters are douches in ties” was heard more than once. More importantly, for the first time ever, pointed out how they thought my approach was different. It’s easy to say, “I’m different and I don’t recruit like anyone else”, but when someone else says that, it hits home. Wifey was out of town, I couldn’t leave the house because I could find any pants so I picked up my Macbook and thus the dawn of me.”
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I started my blog because I needed a creative and theraputic outlet. I was a “one person HR department” for a small company and hated it.”
Steve Roesler, All Things Workplace
1. Why did you start your blog?
“So I’m sitting on the porch of our place in Florida in August of 2006, looking at the water and thinking, “What am I really thinking about?” Really.
I decided that the “blogging” thing would be a way to sort out my thoughts, clarify them, and then find out if anyone else cared what I had to say and wanted to talk about the same things. I signed up for a Typepad account, jiggled a few settings, and then sat there for an interminable amount of time paralyzed by fear. It occurred to me that if I clicked “Publish” and no one joined in–or they chose to trash me–that I would experience rejection on a global scale.
Kari Quaas, Seasonal Human Resources
1. Why did you start your blog?
“First off, my cohorts, Bill Berg and Patty Bishoff, at CoolWorks.com started the blog in August of 2004, not me. The blog was started because both of them were involved with SHRA, the Seasonal Human Resources Association, since its inception 20 years ago. SHRA began as way for the HR folks from the national parks to get together and share their roses and thorns. However, once the annual conference was done in the fall, there wasn’t a way to keep the conversation going and so Cool Works started the blog. Also, back in 2004, some had said that email was losing favor and the latest and greatest thing to do was blog. Cool Works was right there. I took over as the main voice for the HR blog in the spring of 2007.”
Joyce Maroney, Workforce Institute
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I started the blog as part of launching the Workforce Institute (WFI) at Kronos. The WFI is a think tank that helps organizations drive performance by addressing human capital management issues that affect both hourly and salaried employees. Through education and research, we empower organizations with practical ideas for optimizing the 21st century workplace. The blog helps to support the education part of our mission, and is also a means of creating a dialogue with our visitors.”
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I started blogging because I wanted to learn about blogging. What was the big deal? The more I did it, the more I liked it. I like to write, so the blog gives me an outlet. I majored in journalism in college – I always wanted my own newspaper column. I like developing an audience – even if it’s only 7 regular readers. Blogging forces me to research various recruiting tools, methods and products (nothing like being publicly wrong). It’s incredible how much I learn about recruiting, social media, HR, technology, shoes, you name it. In the 2.5 years I have been blogging, the number of widgets and apps and plugins have grown tremendously, making blogging very easy. Oh and I have lots of strong opinions that need some place to park.”
Alexander Kjerulf, Chief Happiness Officer
1. Why did you start your blog?
“Cause all the other cool kids had blogs, I guess. I started about 5 years ago with no set plan.
But also, I have a deep-seated belief that sharing knowledge, ideas and thoughts is inherently good and blogging is a great platform for that.”
Jessica Lee, Fistful of Talent & jessica lee writes
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I began blogging six years ago and have had several different personal blogs during this time period (both anonymous and public). I probably would have kept on with the personal blogging but I was actually “outted” with my anonymous (and quite juicy) blog so therefore abandoned it when it created some drama in my personal life. Because I really missed the outlet and community that blogging provided me, I jumped in the game this year professionally starting with Fistful of Talent (FOT) and then more recently, with jessica lee writes which combines personal and professional interests.”
Phil Fersht, Horses for Sources
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I was a consultant at Deloitte and needed an outlet for my industry experiences. I also used to work with Jason Corsello (aka the Human Capitalist) and was guest blogging on his… realized it was time to go out there myself. I also realized there was no one unbiased discussion portal for all things outsourcing. I also was not getting any traction from much of the media where I was writing and felt a blog would be much more powerful. It’s now the main blog in the outsourcing industry.”
1. Why did you start your blog?
“Mark, Meg and Amy began discussing starting a blog as a way to share ideas about Talent Management and our thinking regarding its value to organizations and the people in them. We feel very strongly that Talent Management and Strategic HR are the key to unlocking tremendous value in organizations as well as revolutionize the way people engage with their organizations. Initially, we began an internal blog as a way to share ideas and findings as well as get the hang of writing a blog. We were inspired to make a public blog by the AppsLab team’s example, so for Oracle Open World 2007, we decided let’s get one started in conjunction with our “Future of Talent Management” Open World session.”
Gireesh Sharma, Talent Junction
1. Why did you start your blog?
“Our company is into HR domain for a long time (We are proud to build EmpXtrack). We (our blog is not written our team of three bloggers: Tushar Bhatia, Gen. B K Bhatia and Gireesh) conduct researches & discussions to churn ideas to solve business problems (usually related to HR) using technology. We meet lots of HR guys, employees and managers across the boundaries (thanks to emails and social marketing sites) and share good an bad experiences.
1. Why did you start your blog?
“My good friend and confidant, Shama Hyder was working with me on marketing and encouraged me to write about what I know about. So I decided to write about the industry I know best–HR. Over the past 15 years I have had the privledge of consulting and providing service to HR departments in large companies all over the world. I discovered that, in general, most companies make similar mistakes, have similar problems, and lament about the same things. I thought it would be fun to bring it all together in a Blog.
1. Why did you start your blog?
“Over the past four years, I had done a lot of research with others about the history of Standard Work and Training in the Toyota Production System and current day Lean systems. At first, it seemed like a blog would be the easiest way to share what I have learned about the historic TWI materials with my colleagues.
1. Why did you start your blog?
“I wanted to find a way to talk about common sense human resources to both HR Pros and business people in general. My colleagues were doing e-newsletters as a way to have their voice heard and I just wasn’t keen on that idea. I kept hearing about blogs and decided that this might be a good medium.
The story behind the HR Bartender name is kinda funny. My husband kept asking me about the e-newsletter idea and I would just change the subject. So one night over dinner, he brought it up again and I said, “I don’t think I want to do a newsletter. I want to create a blog.” So, he says, “What are you going to call it?” I was sure that he would hate the HR Bartender name…but he loved it, and we bought the domain immediately!”
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