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		<title>To Blog To Serve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; In my last blog I listed the five posts from 2011 that were read the most. There were no particular similarity or common theme between them, and looking back it struck me how often the ones that prove most popular are the ones I least expect. I was keen to find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=934&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Year In Lists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; I love a list. Just call me Rob Fleming &#8211; chief character from the book High Fidelity, played by John Cusack in the movie &#8211; the likeness is in our obsessive measuring of our lives in Top 5 moments, not in bearing a resemblance to John Cusack you understand! Much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=923&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lies, Damned Lies, Klout Scores and Vanity Metrics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Just because everything can be measured, doesn’t mean that you should measure everything’ During the summer the football club I support (Arsenal) offloaded one of their squad players, a young Brazilian player called Denilson. This was a move that resonated well with most supporters who had grown tired of his inability to exert any influence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=913&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging and Learning at #CIPD11</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was at the CIPD Conference in Manchester with an access all areas press pass, a presentation on social media monitoring to deliver and an open mind ready to absorb new ideas. Most of the conferences/unconferences that I attend these days are recruitment oriented ones, with the talking points centred on how the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=909&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hands Across The Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bonni Titgemeyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my visit to HREvolution in Atlanta earlier this year I was able to spend some time with Bonni Titgemeyer – you may know her as @BonniToronto on Twitter. She is great company &#8211; intelligent and passionate about HR – and has enjoyed a varied career as practitioner, consultant, blogger, instructor and communicator. She has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=898&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HR and the New World of Work &#8211; ConnectingHR 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I followed a link on Twitter to an article entitled ‘Are Jobs Obsolete?’ which appeared on the CNN news site. You can read it here. It was an opinion piece, so open to interpretation and analysis, but it certainly resonated with me, articulating many of the things that had concerned me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=887&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Band of All Talents</title>
		<link>http://mervyndinnen.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/band-of-all-talents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the alternative US rock band Wilco. I first came a across them about 14 years ago, around the time they released their second album Being There. It was a great collection of alt country songs from the doleful to the exhilarating&#8230;a mixture of the simple and the surreal. I bought it on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=880&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things I Learned From My Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mervyndinnen.wordpress.com/?p=868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Three years ago today my father passed away. At the time it wasn’t a great shock; he had been suffering from a degenerative heart condition and spent his last few months in a care home. I visited him every weekend when he was in the home, though as often [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=868&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Like Monday Morning</title>
		<link>http://mervyndinnen.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/easy-like-monday-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; At the recent TruLondon event the comment ‘Recruiters are Lazy ‘caused a real stir. Almost immediately recruiters were talking about the hours they work, the early starts and late evenings. Certainly blog references to the comment have also tended to defend the dedication and long hours. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=855&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skills to Pay the Bills</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late August always seems to bring education angst to the chattering classes. A-level and GCSE results always raise the questions: Are exams too easy? Are students studying too many ‘soft’ subjects? Then we get the inevitable The education system isn’t providing the future workforce with the skills they need Why do so many need to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10025978&amp;post=848&amp;subd=mervyndinnen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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