The work week is wrapping up this Friday. Labor Day is around the corner. Felt like I needed a new recipe post on the hut. This is an adaptation of a Jamie Oliver recipe that screamed to be enhanced by my father’s hollandaise recipe. The Hollandaise is so good, to just put lemon juice in mayo is almost sacrilege.

The Shopping List:

Any favorite White Fish: Cod, Halibut, Monk Fish.
I have been more aware of trying to avoid imported fish or previously frozen. Who wants fish from China? It just does not make sense to eat something caught half a world away. Go for fresh, never frozen. Though I admit I love sea bass.
Olive Oil
Rosemary
Pepper
1 Lemon
Your favorite Hickory Smoked Bacon
Sides: Fresh Asparagus Spears and your favorite Rice.
2 sticks butter
3 eggs

Hollandaise:

You will need a blender.
3 egg yolks
2 sticks of butter
pinch of salt
pinch of red pepper
2 tblsp lemon juice

Directions:

Start your rice side. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Then season the fish with pepper, rosemary and lemon zest and wrap in bacon. In an oven-safe saute pan on high heat, sear the fish on both sides and then slide pan in a 350-400 degree oven for about 15 min. I also included the fresh asparagus spears in a separate roasting pan in the same oven, seasoned with olive oil and montreal steak seasoning. While the fish and veggies are roasting, crack 3 egg yolks in your blender and add lemon juice and seasoning. Melt 2 sticks of butter for 2 minutes in the microwave or until boiling. Turn on blender and VERY slowly pour the boiling butter into the egg yolk mixture. This slow pour cooks the eggs and makes the simplest hollandaise ever!

Serve it all sauced and fresh! Enjoy!
Photo Credit @designtwit and also filed under recipes.

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Online Talk Radio and Video and Formation of a HR Fan Base

Define Fan

What creates a fan? While in school at Univ. of Memphis, everyone had their favorite Memphis In May BBQ festival team. And you rallied around the pit smokers to cheer on the pork cooking frenzy. (And you know I have to mention bacon of some kind in my post instead of sports medaphor.) That “team moment” resulted in cultural communities formed to discuss the anticipation of the next BBQ championship and the discipline of dry rub vs sauce. Don’t mess with my dry rub! It is “Fan Mentality.” Bob Baker has a great blog post on fan mentality. He defines a fan as “someone who is touched in a positive way by what you do.” How all this relates in the online HR world seems to be fan mentality growing around these wonderful blogger radio shows that have sprouted up over the last year or two.

Bob goes on to describe the difference between patrons and fans. “Patrons are people who visit your Web site, subscribe to your newsletter, and pay for your services. Fans, on the other hand, cheer you on, rave about you to their friends, follow everything you do with interest, go to great lengths to attend your public appearances, and more.”

Online Entertainers Creating HR Fans

I can tell you I am a Fan to many of these HR BlogTalk or Stickam radio shows and YouTube Channels. And social media video and radio are the perfect platform to build a fan base. It is all about connection, outreach and access. Access is proven to endear your fans to your content. The great bloggers and online radio show hosts reach out to their fans and provide access, tweeting, and commenting. And the fans reach out to gain access by dialing in, tweeting and posting comments back. Social media is the ultimate “Fan Fair.” Plug the human brand into the mix and you have the perfect platform to endear your fans to your business, your product, your employer or your employees based on the great content you produce that touches us all. Not to forget the cast of HR characters that call into these shows. I challenge you to seek them out.

One of those characters is Margo Rose, the bubbly host of the Weekly Blog Radio Show “Compassionate HR” and the blog “HR Margo”. She tells me that her “number one reason for fan growth is simple: content, content, content…like real estate it’s all about location 3x. People really need to hear about the good news. We are inundated with bad news, smart-alecky blog posts, and sad stories on reality tv & radio. What Compassionate HR does that no one else is doing is tooting the horns of ordinary people in our industry who are doing truly extraordinary things. Each week, I celebrate the work of Heroes. What can be better than that? “

Yes, lots of content fuels a fan base. I feel Margo goes the extra mile to endear her fans with her consistent message, which allows her to touch people in a positive way. And it is that “compassion” theme along with her willingness to provide access, be helpful and reach out that builds her fan base through what she describes as “Servant Leadership.” Margo says, “On “Compassionate HR,” we chat about steward leadership and a relatively new concept called ‘Servant Leadership.’ According to wikipedia : In order to be a servant leader, one needs the following qualities: listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, growth and building community. Acquiring these qualities tend to give a person authority versus power.” I say Margo walks the walk. She is real! The show can also be lively, quirky, intelligent and fun. The engaging entertainment factor does play a part to create fans.

The Fanatical Workplace

My hope is to see this online fan mentality methodology translate out of the box, internally within corporate intranets to grow company cultures, be tapped for teambuilding strategy and foster ongoing information exchange to motivate employee performance. Think you could become a fan of staff meetings or your boss? The key is to find your host, tool a great upbeat message and allow access to work content that touches employees in a positive way. How fun would that be?

Check Out This Mash-up Short List of
Hot HR Blog Talk Radio and YouTube Channels

If you can’t catch the live shows, replay archives are always available.

Catch you on the call-in or the Twitter back channel!

Compassionate HR with Margo Rose – Weekly, Mondays at 6:30 PMET

HR Happy Hour with Steve Boese and Shauna Moerke –Weekly Thursdays at 7 pm ET

Job Search Secrets With Greg and Jessica Merrell – Weekly Sundays 9pm ET, 6am PT

Influence Insider with Paul Hebert –Check Blog for Air Dates Quarterly

Benjamin McCall –“Re-Thinking HR” _ YouTube Page

Drive Thru HR with Brian Wempen – Daily at Noon CT

Talent Revolution with Amanda Hite/ AKA: Sexy Thinker – YouTube Page

Punk Rock HR with Laurie Ruettimann – YouTube Page

The Recruting Animal with your host: Animal – Weekly Wed at noon

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It is exciting to see all the new faces and participants in the online Human Resources Community these days. People who use online social media tools or just read and take it in are all participating in a growing audience fueled by great content and exciting outreach. So here is a fun Top 20 Countdown I composed to illustrate the process to HR online enlightenment.

1. Google Search “HR Blogs”

2. Set up your Blog Reader Subscriptions- cause it is just too much to bookmark

3. Join Twitter & follow HR people

4. Find out they Tweet back and share links to great content

5. Leave comments on your favorite blogs

6. Tweet HR help and info

7. Tweet about Bacon

8. Listen to HR Happy Hour BlogTalk Radio

9.  Call in to HR Happy Hour

10. Launch your own blog

11. Conference call with online connections

12.  Buy/Download a book you read about on an HR Blog

13. Attend HRevolution

14. Know China Gorman personally or virtually

15. Go International

16.  Meet up with Twitter friends when you travel

17.  Launch your second blog or  Twitter Account. (maybe 3^rd or 4^th – sick I know)

18. Get a mention in ‘Carnival of HR’

19. Publicize your online activity outside of the Internet

20. Land feature article in ‘SHRM Magazine’ and drive audience online

In the end, online influence and community is not something that is immediate. It is something that grows with time. And you will find it is unique to you and your curiosity. Fueled by meaningful content, it comes to the patient, the methodical, the entertaining, and the resourceful. The online HR community is a learned process formed by layers of discovery.  Read what is being published online and you can’t help but get to know the people behind the content. They just make you want to join in. Participation is what makes social media different from picking up a newspaper or magazine article or reading your company newsletter. Since HR is all about the “Human” I don’t think you will find a better platform to create and discover HR information and trends. And you will also discover the bacon is crisp.

Need another jump-off point? Check out this Hrevolution aggregated Blog list and some great Carnival of HR here and here.

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There is much to be said about social networking these days. How is it done? What are you doing? Is it effective? If you are visiting my blog for the first time because you met us at ASTD (American Society for Training & Development)… welcome! What you are going to find on HR Bacon Hut is a site intended to inspire and give you a resource into a world of HR professional bloggers and social media being used in HR. These prolific writers are discussing everything from recruiting to technology to training, to employee branding, and of course social networking. There is a lot going on online these days. Think of it as a secret club you now know about. But, we hope it does not remain secret. We hope more and more people in the HR industry find out about the HR content being produced online. Maybe you never knew how to find it? Well, now you do!

To your right on this page is a list of links to HR blogs I admire. And that list continues to grow. Why HR Bacon Hut? Well, you can read that here.

This blog is not about certificate frames. For that you can go here or here.

Thank you again for visiting today. I hope you find the content you mine and the connections you make a valuable tool in your online tool box! Welcome to the bacon club. Lyn Hoyt @designtwit on twitter at AwardCertificateFrames.com

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As you descend on Chicago this weekend may your conversations be inspiring, your presentations ground breaking, your drinks cold your bacon crisp! All my best to the cutting edge of HR. @designtwit

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