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Below is a webinar I recently attended by Josh Bernoff, a leading authority on social networking 2.0, Co-author of "Groundswell" and a Vice President at Forrester Research. He did a fine job of presenting some of the chief ideas from his groundbreaking book on social networking trends, "Groundswell". I would encourage you to spend the 60 minutes going through his webinar, as it presents an excellent framework to develop a viable Social networking strategy for your organization, which I believe can be a very potent yet non disruptive tool for driving organization culture change. If an organization's employee population has an average age anywhere around 40 years or below, the company may benefit tremendously by tapping into the power of internal and external social networking tools in shaping the organization's employer brand and culture along its stated values. The book advocates a well thought out customized approach to promoting social networking technolog

This is a debrief of a recent webinar I attended. A link to the webinar is attached below. This is based on a recent study on HR Globalization trends conducted by The HR Executive magazine and the Hackett Group. The sample size of this study initiated in Jun 2008, was 80 Globally spread out companies ranging from 1000 to 10,000+ employees worldwide. Many of the companies surveyed were between 10,000+ employees I have summarized below a quick debrief of the study findings (from the webinar ): #1 The number 1 driver for HR to globalize appears to be "enabling Company's global growth and expansion strategy" and then "Cost savings". The study also cites that HR Globalization is a key differentiator between companies that have successfully become global companies from those that are struggling to do so. #2 Companies surveyed surprisingly experienced not only a decrease in HR transaction costs (Efficiency) but an increase in the impact of their HR / Talent Management