Five years is a long time.
In the time span of the Internet, it might as well be a lifetime.
So, after five years of doing this blog on nearly a daily (ok, business daily) basis, it’s time for a change.
Now, I’m not retiring like other
For those who are uninitiated, each month an employment law blog hosts a “carnival” with links to various posts from other blogs with a theme typically attached. Candidly, it’s a relic from a bygone era before social media made sharing easy.
But a carnival is a
Yesterday, the HR Examiner came out with Top 25 list of “Online Influencers” in Employment Law. Through a complex formula, it purports to show who people listen to about employment law online.
Unlike Groucho Marx who famously said “I don’t care to belong
Popularity contests have never been my thing. And asking for votes is even less my thing too.
But as I recently noted, the popular Sad City Hartford blog has nominated me for the “Hot in Hartford” 2012 contest. It is a silly contest, as the blog authors readily concede, but a contest nonetheless.
Welcome to the new Connecticut Employment Law Blog. Take a look around and make yourself comfortable. It’s built with employers and their human resources staff in mind. But everyone should enjoy the changes.
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As I approach the three-year anniversary of this blog (stay tuned for more details), it’s certainly touching to receive accolades for this blog. 
Each year, LexisNexis “honors a select group of blogs that set the online standard for a given industry.” Amazingly, the Connecticut Employment Law Blog is a nominated candidates for the LexisNexis Top
Heather Armstrong — depending on your perspective — is either infamous or famous.
Infamous, in the sense that in 2002, she was one of the first people fired by her employer for writing about company business on her blog, Dooce.
But since that time, she’s only become much more famous, with her spirited writing
We had a great turnout and reaction to the presentation yesterday at the CBIA Human Resources Conference in Rocky Hill. My thanks to all who sat in our packed room and the great questions that everyone asked.
A few observations from the conference:
There’s nothing like a bit of Florida sunshine to recharge your batteries. After 18 months of continuous blogging, you might have noticed a brief slowdown the last week or so as I took some vacation time.
In my time off, though, there were several notable pos
ts or topics that are worth mentioning. I’ll try to
Have you heard? Twitter is the next BIG thing that employers somehow need to worry about — right after blogs and online social networking, of course. Indeed, a headline not too long ago from the National Law Journal screamed: "Beware: Your ‘Tweet’ on Twitter could be trouble".
But here’s the thing. I’ve actually been using