Comment by Lavinia Weissman, July 18, 2007 at 10:09 pm

Ami,

I have been watching the development of this blog/knowledge center and web site. It is one of the best practice in the industry.

What I have noticed is that it is that way, because you share freely and don’t “blow your own horn.”

The question in my mind at this point is why hire a good recruitment firm, what to look for and/or is your company doing a fine job of recruitment on its own without an outsource?

The other question in my mind, which is a discussion I influenced over at www.hospitalimpact.org recently —

Why do people visit and read here and how are they or not benefiting and would they be willing to send the answers to these questions in confidential email?

My firm has completed an analysis of the hospital/health care blogging space and really begun to think about the future of quality social media in this space as it related to emerging in our new form as a non profit. (web site now in development to replace our current site - expect this to be a 6-9 month project that is not in the public space).

Best,
Lavinia

Comment by Lavinia Weissman, July 19, 2007 at 9:10 am

Actually Ami, I was not thinking of data, I was thinking about meaningful conversation and inquiry. Very different.

The other day, I was visiting Boeing and the person that I talked to was in their vocational counseling program. We talked about the open source nature of Boeing that expands across its larger community of stakeholders (not shareholders) that include vendors, hospitals, insurance companies and hospitals plus. One of the groups this person talks to was asked by Boeing to go visit Toyota and learn about their continuous improvement process.

The group now preaches Toyota 101 Continuous Improvement in all its “management meetings” and has taught the subordinates how to preach back.

What my colleague and another associate of WorkEcology cannot see from the preaching that is not blogged and blogged is the content of the conversations, if they are meaningful and if they are in fact bringing together people who would not normally work together to author continuous improvement through real conversations in real time and with thoughtful concentrated focused work that is not 24/7 frenetic.

While I am happy to see your data Ami, — no where in the blog verse of recruitment have I seen real time conversations that are impacting a change in how companies work with people across expertise, organization and human difference.

WorkEcology welcomes pointers to that. We are now planting these seeds across many expert blog communities which I have not yet seen self-organize to invite real innovation. I am always open to learn.

Data is a tangible that does not report the accurate meaning of intangibles.

This is possibly the greatest weakness of HR today and more.

Hidden Jewels do not show up in numbers.

Comment by Lavinia Weissman, July 23, 2007 at 7:36 pm

Well you are about to have your chance to participate. I always adore talking to you and participation in the call will begin an inquiry between some of the best practice people working to lead change in workforce values, practices and thought leadership from the perception of innovation.

This means anyone invited has to have experience in intangible forms of organization and be able to lead in synch with other innovators where no one relies on followership. This learning community will build a synchronistic examination with each other and time will be spent on purpose, not lecturing, but empowering self-directed activity where this social network becomes the lab in which to brainstorm how to lead change among more traditional groups of people within core groups, social networks and traditional forms of organization.

Our first WorkEcology conference call is going to be at the end of August or by mid-September.

Ami, watch your email. I am thrilled you stepped up to the plate to join me in my life long inquiry with others I know personally where I already built a history of trust through thoughtful conversation and small experiments.

Best,
Lavinia