Archive for February, 2011

Staying Connected after the Show

Friday, February 4th, 2011

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!

Day 3: #HRPA2011 one Swaggy Day

Friday, February 4th, 2011

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!

Day 2 and the Twitterfest Continues

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

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.

Walking the Exhibit Floor at #HRPA2011

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

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 at #HRPA2011 off to a Great Start

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

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.

The First #HRPA2011 Conference Round Up

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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.

Click here to view the paper

Day 1: A Twitterific Day at #hrpa2011

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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!

Welcome to a Snow Covered #HRPA2011

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Welcome to a snowy HRPA 2011, not the snowmageddon many of us feared but its still a little slowy and icy out there so be safe getting to the conference. At Talentfindr we’re getting geared up for our second year of blogging and Tweeting at the show. Once again we have our live Twitter feed for the hash tag #hrpa2011 running on the blog. This is a great way for Twitter & non-Twitter users to see what’s happening at the show minute by minute. Thanks to all my fellow Twitter participants at the show for all their great coverage.

In addition to our live Twitter feed we’ve added a few new features this year. Just below the feed you’ll see our real-time stats for the hash tag #hrpa2011. Traffic on the hash tag grew by more than 70% yesterday, we expect even more traffic today!

Some of the top Twitter influencers yesterday included:

@geoffclen
@AgileDudes
@Nadia_Issabella
@joannawoo
@BonniToronto
@jenniferaking

We are also adding a daily update of Twitter activity, blog posts and media every morning and evening beginning tonight. This update is in the form of an online Twitter driven newspaper that will be published on Twitter and by email every morning and evening. I hope everyone finds this useful, your feedback would be most appreciated.

Check back here throughout the day as we provide coverage of the event from our perspective.

Enjoy the day.