I roamed the SHRM expo floor, today, and grabbed some swag for you — the most awesomest readers. I have a ton of stuff including shirts and books and trinkets. Monster was nice enough to give me a USB hub and I’m totally keeping it. Sorry, suckers, but it’s one of the best conference swag items I’ve received.
Highlights:
- I finally met Tim Stanton from LinkedIn and he is super awesome. We are tweet-buddies and it was really good to meet him in person.
- I stopped by the Halogen booth because they are big supporters of the HR blogging community.
- I stumbled across the Dart Properties booth. They provide temporary executive housing in the Detroit area. One of the employees lived in Kalamazoo for nine years. When I told her that I couldn’t sell my house for cigarettes or a six pack of beer, she sympathized.
My favorite booth was the Totally Chocolate booth. I went there on accident because the Ghirardelli booth was out of chocolate. In fact, the vendor was eating lunch and didn’t look thrilled to talk to a girl who writes a blog called Punk Rock HR. I can’t blame her. These vendors need to talk to real HR Professionals and not just bloggers who want to steal some freebies and blog about it to their readership. Thankfully, I walked over to TC and they loaded me up. I’ll raffle away all this awesome chocolate when I get home. Thanks, Totally Chocolate, for being so generous.
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I am glad that you were able to say hello to my friends at Halogen Software. In addition to being big supporters of the HR blogosphere, they have really jumped in with a tremendous amount of support for my HR Technology class. They recently announced two great new features to their already strong Talent Management platform, and they happen to be really nice people as well.
I’m totally throwing my hat into the ring for chocolate.
This summer has been brutal to my HR world…bring on the swag! I could use free stuff!
I saw the picture of the Smart Car from The RightThing Inc. Terry Terhark is the founder of that group, and did an OUTSTANDING job almost 20 years ago helping me staff a greenfield manufacturing site. Back then he was leading a company called Selective Staffing, which he sold to Aon, and now has this group. He is an awesome guy and just plain “gets it” when it comes to understanding his customers.
I hope you win the car!
@TimG Some chick from Delaware won the car. I’ll have to look up Terry Terhark!
@Amanda Soon, my dahhhhling, soon!
@Minion I had some dark chocolate pieces that magically disappeared — into my belly!
@Steve I know, they are really great and on the leading edge. I have enjoyed learning more about Halogen!