True Faith HR: Crowdsourcing #SHRM Speakers

Crowdsourcing #SHRM Speakers

by Matthew Stollak on Friday, November 16, 2012

On Tuesday, the monthly #SHRMChat focused on the vexing topic of chapter programming - where do you find your speakers? The lack of collaboration among chapters sharing information about successful speakers was noted as well as a desire for a Yelp-like tool where chapters could identify good (and not-so-good) speakers. Hearing about this, the St. Norbert College SHRM chapter sprung into action and put together a tool using list.ly for chapters to utilize in addressing the programming issue. Sharing the details is guest blogger, Jenna Ray Hines, President of SNC SHRM:

Have you ever had a difficult time finding a quality speaker in your region for your SHRM Chapter or Conference event?

We have created Crowdsourcing SHRM Chapter Speakers for that exact reason.

We wanted to create an outlet for chapters to find and recommend quality, cost efficient speakers within their respective regions. After a chapter has a quality speaker, they can post on their list.ly regional page to promote the speaker and presentation topic as well as mention if it was HRCI-approved.

This social media tool will be useful for chapters to collect ideas, collaborate, and share successes.

We are using list.ly, a social media website that allows users to create and share lists that other users can build upon, to host our five regional lists. Each one of the regional pages represents one of the five SHRM HR regions and can be used by them to collect their list of recommended regional speakers:

As you can see, not only are details such as speaker name, date he or she spoke, HRCI-credits, SHRM event, who recommended the speaker, and details about his or her talk included, you can give thumbs up or down to a particular speaker.

To learn more about Crowdsourcing SHRM Chapter Speakers go to your regional page below:

Southwest Region
Southeast Region
North Central Region
Northeast Region
Pacific West Region

Of course, this tool is only as good as the people who contribute to it. Be sure to add a speaker who you felt excelled, and share the list with chapter leaders in your region.

Thanks to Jenna for the post. If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact Jenna (@jennaray21) or me....and, note, Jenna will be graduating in May of 2013 and looking for a job in HR.