HRM Today Now Partnering with HR Bloggers

In a deal scratched over a couple hours of e-mailing (including a quip about someone’s grandma), I am pleased to announce a sponsorship deal with Laurie Ruettimann’s HR Bloggers group (www.hrbloggers.com). This is a deal that makes a lot of sense for both parties but let me outline some of my goals with the sponsorship of the group:

1. Grow a social network for HR bloggers - I like writing blogs, I don’t like running social networks. That being said, I think the benefits of social networks are huge. Upping the level of conversation between HR people is something I think blogs and social networks both accomplish.
2. Grow the number of HR bloggers - There needs to be more of us and we need to stop being wimps about blogging. I have learned a ton about recruiting from dedicated, grassroots recruiting communities like recruitingblogs.com, recruiting.com and the multitude of recruiting bloggers having robust conversations about their trade. HR needs that now more than ever.
3. Grow my site - Usually a sponsorship involves money so I made a calculation that this will help build HRM Today into a better site with more visitors and a better product for readers. With more visitors and better product, we can start talking about revenue opportunities as well as rev share opportunities that reward people for posting content to the network.

The best part about this deal is the hope that each will continue to do what each does best (social networking and blogging) and that the changes made will be ones that increase the number of users and increase the quality of the respective sites. The optimal goal from my end is that if an HR pro wants to get plugged in to the online HR community, they can become a part of both HR Bloggers and HRM Today and they instantly have a network of other HR professionals.

Is this an idea that resonates with you? If so, do two things:

1. Sign up for accounts on HR Bloggers and HRM Today
2. Invite HR colleagues to join both with you

That’s it! Instant community.