Daily Archives: August 9, 2009

Innovative human resources social networking site HRM Today is being auctioned off through eBay, keeping with the online community’s vision of elevating the human resources profession through the use of Web 2.0 technology.

The wide-ranging network of collaborative, multi-author blogs, events, forums, and groups has nearly 1,200 members, along with a healthy presence on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, which boasts over 1,700 followers.

“We’re amazed at the organic growth of HRM Today since we started it last year,” said co-owner, Laurie Ruettimann, who with her partner, Lance Haun, believes the auction will appeal to human resources professionals, associations, or vendors who have stronger IT infrastructures.

“The site is poised for the next level,” she said. “Fresh ideas and framework will no doubt expand the community and translate into additional growth and revenue.”

The eBay auction will last ten days and include http://hrmtoday.com, http://blogs.hrmtoday.com, and http://network.hrmtoday.com, along with archived user data. There will be no reserve. HRM Today, LLC is a registered Oregon limited liability corporation.

Lance Haun has been a Human Resources Generalist practicing in the field for over five years. On his award winning blog, YourHRGuy.com, he tackles workplace issues by giving employees an inside scoop of how your HR department runs. He is a native of Portland, Oregon.

Laurie Ruettimann is the founder of Punk Rock HR, and a SPHR certified Human Resource professional with over 10 years in the corporate HR departments of Fortune 500 companies. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In an unique attempt to connect Bhojpuri-speaking people around the globe in the cyber world, leading portal bhojpuria.com has launched a new social networking website on the lines of Facebook and Orkut.

Director of bhojpuria.com Sudhir Kumar told that the networking site named jaibhojpuri.com was launched here last month, and within just 25 days, they have been able to get thousands of registrations.

”The number of registrations is rapidly increasing. People from all over the world are signing up. Bhojpuri-speaking people can exchange their views through it and can also create their own blogs.

It has several facilities, including video uploads,” he added.

Bhojpuria.com was in the limelight for the aquisition of a famous Pakistan-based portal related to assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto and also for the vehement opposition of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena supremo Raj Thackeray’s anti-Bihari remarks.

Bhojpuria.com is world’s first portal for Bhojpuri speaking people. You can find free e-mail, chat, forum, dictionary, literature, food and lots more…

Lienku.com is the first auto-translated web community in history. Created by a group of people dedicated to Human Rights, who believe in cultural exchange and communication.
Lienku.com is property of The Two Hundred Network LLC a company from Delaware USA, with representations in Argentina, Spain and China.
Members can Chat, send and receive messages in there own language and instantly translated into ten languages.

The primary languages are: Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Hindi and French.
According to Mr. Santiago Craig, LatAm Communication Manager, Arabic and Hebrew will be added in two months.

Developed by a “Google Business Partner”, Lienku.com translate all contents instantly, and members can see their own profile written in other languages.

The “Create a Group” tool, gives the opportunity to upload pictures, video and information that will be read in Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Japanese, German, and so on!

The objective is to give a platform where professionals can exchange information like “Technical Research Group” focused on searching a solution to a health disease…there is a whole world of possibilities. Worldwide specialists in Ecology, all kind of Human Rights, Technology, Humanitarian Services, Find multicultural friends, etc.

This video shows the spirit of the Community:

The community also has an innovative tool: Classified Ads, auto-translated into ten languages; this is the only paid service.

The service combines the best of web communities, translation services, CHAT, international directories, and classified ads that will be read in ten languages instantly.