Growth in Twitter participation this year at the HRPA has been spectacular. Last year when I first launched our Twitter event at HRPA 2010 we had a total of 52 Tweeps participating. Not bad given there was no official promotion, sponsors or big bad Tweet Wall. This year it looks like we will have more than tripled the number of Tweeps to 175.
But it doesn’t all end this afternoon, make sure you stay connected with all these Tweeps because we’re going to triple again next year. To facilitate this I’ve put together a HRPA 2011 Twitter list that you can follow throughout the year. Click here to follow the list.
I’ve tried to keep track and capture all participating Tweeps in this list however if I missed anyone Tweet me at @geoffclen and I’ll add you to the list.
Enjoy the rest of the show, I’ll be back with some final stats tonight.
Great show everyone!
Its the final day of the HRPA 2011 Conference. A day of exciting prizes and surprises. The big raffle item this year seems to be the iPad, I saw numerous exhibitors with iPad promotions. That’s not the only cool promotions and swag to be had out there. Checkout these cool items:
1. Monsters from Monster.ca (who wouldn’t want a Monster pet!)
2. Tigers from Ultimate Software (more cute that ferocious)
3. Crazy Jellyfish YoYo things from ICIMS (weird, ask Joannawoo she’ll demo it for you)
4. Cool digital media device stand from Carlson Marketing (using mine with my iPad)
5. Someone is monkeying around at CareerBuilder (I think he won this?)
I’m certain I’ve missed many, many great swag like items. Snap a picture and send it to me @geoffclen.
Enjoy the day!
I didn’t think it possible, but you Tweeps at #hrpa2011 really did it! Yes, we exceeded the record set yesterday with 164 unique authors and a potential market reach of more than 53,000.
Today’s top Tweep was without a doubt @joannawoo, how does she type so fast! Also making the top Tweep list:
@AgileDudes
@TREventsCanada
@geoffclen
@k8mcyap
@jenniferaking
@josephinemeleca
I hope everyone is looking forward to tomorrow, let’s keep up the Tweets and get the message out.
Just finished walking the Exhibit floor at #HRP2011. Lots of really interesting companies offering some pretty great products.
Manage WSIB claims and training, Jordan, Clear Path, #843, #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Audience response engaged training, Jeff Monger, Turning Tech, #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Online health and safety training, Danielle, #634, #hrpa20ww, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Source for improv engagement and productivity, Kamilah, N-Gen, #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Support employers to recruit immigrant,Triec, Valeisha Sobhee, #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Boutique provider employee assistance prgms, Rob Gould, Aspiria, #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Carlson employee engagement, Tori, #310 #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitor
Employee engagement solutions, Stuart, iloverewards, #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Full service benefits firm, Francesca Mackie, #337, #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Outplacement with a difference, Martin Kingston #142 #hrpa2011, #hrpa, #exhibitors
Just a few examples of some great companies and people. Get out and meet them all!
Cheers
Day 2 of the #hrpa2011 conference seems to be off to a great start! This morning we had 138 unique Tweeps participating in the conversation, giving us a potential market reach of 45,500!
I arrived here this morning from Mississauga, ironically the traffic was worse today than it was yesterday. Regardless, looks like a great crowd again!
The first place I migrated too once I arrived was the Great Wall of Tweets as I call it. Looks fantastic but I see @joannawoo is now the number one Tweep!
Well deserved, if you want to see pretty much everything that is going on at the show or at least all that is fit to Tweet, go to search.twitter.com and enter @joannawoo, it’s like you are actually there.
Here it is, hot off the presses, the first edition of the HRPA 2011 Conference Round Up newspaper. I’ll be publishing this show summary each morning and evening to Twitter and by email. I hope you all enjoy it.
Well, day one at hrpa2011 is over and by the measure of Twitter it was a fantastic success. The Twitter stats speak for themselves. We had a total 121 unique contributors posting almost 350 tweets. We collectively had a potential market reach of approximately 38,500 people and more than doubled our traffic from Tuesday.
The top contributors or Tweeps today were:
@AgileDudes
@TREventsCanada
@geoffclen
@joannwoo
@jenniferaking
@josephinemeleca
@katyTorg
Thanks to these seven top Tweeps but also thanks to the other 114 participants throughout the day. You can continue to follow these stats along with our real-time Twitter feed (it really is real-time now, wahoo) on the home page of our blog. (http://www.armorpeoplelink.com/talentfindr)
Let’s blow these numbers away tomorrow!
I had a really great client visit today and I feel compelled to tell everyone why this visit was so great! The client understood us! He understood our needs – we have them too you know!
I know what you’re thinking, it isn’t up to the client to ‘understand’ us, and you’re partly right, the majority (like 95%!) of the ‘understanding’ is obviously on us, but when we work together, we learn to understand each other.
Yah right, blah blah you say! I know, you think our industry has become just another service you turn to when you need a body, when you don’t have the tools necessary to find that right person, or possibly don’t have the time. I’m sure you even think that we are all the same. Sure we offer the same services to varying degrees, but are you and your competitor ‘the same’?
What works best for us, and ultimately for you is to treat us as an extension of your hiring needs and goals…dare I say it… a PARTNER. A hiring partner that really knows your internal culture that really digs deep and understands your frustrations, that inherently knows beyond just skill sets, what personality type and experience really works best with your already developed staff.
The client I visited today, he really understands that PARTNERSHIP mentality, and has realized that by each of us getting to know each other, we both understand how we can work well together. He understands, that finding the right people is different than just taking something off the shelf and putting it in a box, and works with us to provide useful feedback, which ultimately helps us to find him the person that suits his company’s requirements best.
So, talk to us. Get to know us. Allow us to come and visit you and really get to know your business and I really encourage you to do the same with us! Only by working to understand each others businesses and requirements can we move beyond just service and provider and work towards a real business partnership. In the end, we’ll both ‘understand’ each other better!
As Abba sang … “Knowing me, knowing you..ahaa, there ain’t nothin’ we can’t do!”