Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Announcement

Dear Friends.

I hope you are enjoying this holiday season and that the New Year brings you health, happiness, success and contentment.

Before I go further, many thanks to Karen Duffy and Marilyn Messer for planning a very nice year-end dinner.

We are looking forward to seeing you in 2013. Our calendar is at http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/volunteers.htmlif you’d like to save the dates.

Would you like to volunteer to help plan and book the meetings in 2013? On 1/16/13 in Mountain View, our volunteers will meet, determine the speakers and topics, and decide which events they’ll help plan. Many people list this volunteer activity on their LinkedIn profiles and resumes. Details are at http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/volunteers.htmland it’d be great to have YOU join us!

Our Volunteers created a great and varied line-up of topics and speakers for this past year. The 2012 Volunteers included: Belina Pignataro, Christine Young, Delbar Jahanian, CMFC, Jenny Vonderwerth, Judy Pearce, Karen Duffy, Krissy Vollersen, Marilyn Messer, Michael Benjaminson, Susan Harvell, Tatyana Dorokhova and Trudy Schapansky. Good work, everyone!

We had fantastic speakers in 2012 including: Jenny Kahn, PHR, Mary Wang, Susan Miller, SPHR, CCP, Jeanine DeBacker, Terri Griffith, Connie Hampton, Deanna J. Mouser, Margaret O’Hanlon, Eric Petersen and Jenny Vonderwerth. Topics ranged from employment legal updates and workplace investigations to compensation, targeted networking to negotiation skills, the 401(k) and fiduciary liability to building a corporate wellness program. Many of these topics and speakers can also be seen at paid events, and many topics are of interest to those not in Human Resources. Some of our speakers provided useful downloads and you can find them at http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/previous-speakers.html.

We have a page on our site for advertising with links to Amazon products. Our site also has Google ads, and you're welcome to click on relevant links. These links provide a small amount of money to help pay for our domain.

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Happy New Year and I hope to see you soon!

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, PHR - www.linkedin.com/in/marciastein

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"
Blog: http://helpingparentsofteens.blogspot.com/
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Silicon Valley Women in HR...& Friends Mailing and Event Announcement

Dear Friends,

Happy December!  I hope you're well and enjoying the season.

If you strictly want information about the next event, please look at the links to the right and go to Event Registration.

Many thanks to our volunteers our Volunteers, Jenny Vonderwerth and Krissy Vollersen for planning and leading last month's event, "Do It Yourself Corporate Wellness Programs." Jenny was our speaker and what a wealth of information she is! 

The year went quickly in some ways and in other ways, it was long and upsetting.  So here's the good stuff:  more of us are working and the economy has taken a turn for the better.  Here's the rotten, stinking stuff:  I'm disgusted and appalled by the way Americans have been treating each other over politics and politicians.  No matter your political beliefs, there are places to go to confirm facts and it seems to me that a lot of people aren't doing that.

Just after 9/11, do you remember how united our country was?  It's a terrible thing to have that as a unifying event, but it did unify us.  It didn't take long for us to fall apart, have all kinds of scandals, corporate malfeasance and spewed hatred.

I'm a news junkie and go to sites that have actual fact checking rather than opinions.  Why not do the same?  Take out the emotions and look for the facts.  I think we'd be better off tuning out most of the screamers and paid opinionists on TV, radio and the Internet.  How about listening to the "other side" now and then to get new insights and maybe some ideas?  Don't let yourself get caught up in this hatred.

We have a page on our site for advertising with links to Amazon products. Our site also has Google ads, and you're welcome to click on relevant links. These links provide a small amount of money to help pay for our domain.

You can subscribe to the blog, share it on Facebook or Tweet it. Join us on LinkedIn.

Because of my commitments I can’t mentor you, and please don’t send me unsolicited resumes. Come to an event and meet someone who can help. I receive a lot of unsolicited resumes (from our group and strangers) and I refer people to the forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. See the blog post for more thoughts. http://marciastein.blogspot.com/2009/02/setting-boundaries-and-professionalism.html

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1. HR Women and Friends Community Event: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:00-8:30 p.m. Won't you join us for our year-end party?  Please click on the registration tab for details and the response form.

2. Discounts and Offers – view them online. Thanks for extending the discounts to our group.

3. Using our Forum at www.ourhrsite.com/forum. You can view messages without registering, but you must register to reply or post a message. You are not automatically registered because you receive this email. Please review the Terms and Conditions available under any topic on the forum. It’s your responsibility to keep track of your user name and password, and if you change email addresses, please log in and update your profile. If privacy is an issue, please be careful when you post anything: use a separate email if necessary and you can skip your street address if you’d like.

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7. Potential Speakers/Topics. Please see http://ourhrsite.blogspot.com/p/potential-speakers.htmlfor details and a form to submit your information.

8. Notifying us of upcoming events and discounts. If you email me right after I’ve sent a mailing, I can update the website, but I can’t send a separate mailing to the group. It will be in the next mailing.

I hope to see you soon.

All the best,

Marcia

Marcia Stein, PHR - www.linkedin.com/in/marciastein

Author: "Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens" and "Recruiters on Recruiting"
Blog: http://helpingparentsofteens.blogspot.com/
http://www.tellmeaboutyourself.info/
www.scribd.com/Marcia_Stein

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