It’s been a busy few weeks for me since the last post. A week after returning home from SHRM10 I hopped on another cross country flight to Las Vegas for the ADP Virtual Edge National Users Group Meeting. I know what you’re thinking, snooze fest right? Well, I attended for three reasons:
- It was free, who doesn’t love a free conference.
- There was session titled “Meet The Experts”
- It was in Las Vegas, need I say more?
The Meet The Experts session was worth the entire trip, just that one hour. If you ever have a chance to sit down with a Product Developer, an Engineer, and a Product Manager of any system you are using, do it. Within one hour I had all my questions about any issue I was having answered. Questions about issues I’d been struggling to fix for weeks. I could have talked to them for hours but my lunch plans involved In and Out, I have priorities.
Sadly, I do have to tell you about the social media session I attended. It seems every conference these days has an ‘expert’ session on social media. While I’m sure the usage of social media is working well for this particular company, I would by no means classify the speaker as an ‘expert’. When referring to any social media tool ‘The’ was used to preface it. For example, the company uses “The You Tube” in onboarding, and is looking at rolling out “The Tweeters”. Yes, tweeters. The session lasted 25 mins. The speaker did speak of the benefits of Google Alerts to learn what’s being said about your company. Kudos for that, just that.
The overall users group meeting was great. I enjoyed listening to best practices by site admins that use the system on a daily basis. The closing session highlighted the new functions rolling out with the next release. The nerd in me loved it. Candidate comparison is going to be an interesting tool. Two things seemed to be hot topics among the attendees, a more robust reporting tool and more control. While I understand you cannot release control of everything, I should be able to create my own user groups. I also respect ADP for admitting they are having trouble working with their own reporting platform and saying if they can’t get it right and set it as a priority, VE will look outside of ADP. That may have been fluff for us, who knows.
I’m looking forward to the conference next year and having a list of questions and hopefully some best practice advice of my own.
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OMG, it’s not “The Tweeters”? That’s what I say in all my Social Media expert sessions. Oops. Next you will be telling me that saying “The Google Buzzkill” is wrong as well. I’m on a horse.
@Mike – “The Google Buzzkill” is actually correct. It’s also, The Facebooks and The Linkedins. Just dont use The Tweeters. #Cringe #DontFallOffTheHorse