Thursday, July 30, 2015

Next Steps for the #OzHR Community

Thank you to the #OzHR community for both the valuable feedback on how it might best serve your needs. Oh, and thank you for your patience as we put all the pieces together.

A brief summary of what we have heard:
  • You prefer either Wednesday or Thursday (and one very committed person would like Saturdays - that's impressive!)
  • Evening works better for most - preferably 7pm or later, however straight after work (5pm to 7pm) was also an option. There were also some people who preferred early mornings, and we'll keep that in mind too.
  • Weekly or fortnightly were the most popular frequencies.
  • There were a number of suggested HR topics that were worthy of our attention, so those topics will be coming to a tweetchat near you soon!
  • Virtually everyone who provided us feedback was happy to be involved in putting some of the pieces together - this was just fantastic!
Also a special thanks to Amanda Sterling from #NZLEAD, who has also given us advice based on her considerable experience in the area. 

So where-to from here? (sorry, perhaps I'm making a big deal out of nothing here - just tell us when the Tweetchat is on and just do it, hey?!). 

We will move #OzHR to Wednesdays - this allows us to give people more choice in regards to joining in with our cousins from across the ditch on Thursdays. We will stick with the same bat-time (7pm AEST et al.), and we will stick with weekly.

We have a few more ideas that will come out over the coming months, but for now we're excited to just get cracking - topic, hashtag and discussion/debate/dialogue!

In the meantime, keep in the loop about what's happening in the big, wide world of Australian Social Media by tuning in to Sarah Miller each week with HRM TV: HR in Social Media.