About this blog
I am working in Human Resources (HR) for Sun Microsystems. My actual job is that of an HR Business Partner in Europe based in Hamburg/Germany. Recently I got Dan Berg as a new client who is heading our European Systems Engineering organization. He kept on telling his people to start blogging and I was wondering why shouldn't someone from HR be doing that too?
This was the initial reason for this blog but there are more: I always found pleasure in writing. From my travels to parts of Africa and Haiti right after school time I wrote articles and during my studies of economics I enjoyed writing papers.
And now what to write about? I heard people saying: I'd like to write a blog but am not sure I always have interesting topics. Sure, starting a blog is somewhat a commitment to write pretty much regularly. I want to use that slight pressure as a motivation for my personal development and first of all start to dive deeper into the many topics I always wanted to get into (and there are a few), starting with the pack of articles printed from the web I never got to read.
So one focus will probably be around diverse Human Resources topics. The vision I have is a vibrant community of HR professionals who are interested to share their thoughts and their best practices. I imagine a wiki page at the center of this virtual community. Participants discuss HR topics in their blogs, communicate via Skype and instant messaging to be always connected and be able to get hints from fellow colleagues at any time during difficult confcalls or meetings...
As a former member of the Young European Federalists I will have an eye on the development of the European Union. Through intense business travel to St. Petersburg/Russia since 2004 and more recently to Prague I developed some passion around eastern Europe in particular.
So this blog headlined Human Challenges will be about us human beings thriving to bring ourselves to the next level... Please comment on my blogs or send me your feed-back via one of the contact details listed on the blog's right bar!
Please be aware that although I am working for Sun Microsystems and blogging on an official Sun page all opinions expressed in this blog are purely my own, and neither Sun nor any other party necessarily agrees with them.
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08:45AM Oct 19, 2006
by Volker Seubert in Personal |
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Comments[2]
Posted by Martin Lormes on March 08, 2007 at 05:50 PM CET #
After 1,5 years I reviewed this entry and have to say that the initial purpose of the blog remained the same. There have probably been topic areas I touched more on others less and I widened up the category Europe to Europe & Beyond inspired through my trip to Dubai.
One thing I originally missed to mention is that one important purpose of the blog is to experience and experiment with Web 2.0 technologies. So more recently I edited my first video, I finally managed to put a tag cloud on this blog and another really nice and easy thing, I learned how to integrate pictures from flickr in different formats. And there will for sure always be new things to come...
Posted by Volker on April 29, 2008 at 10:13 AM CEST #