Discussion Groups

Diversity News
This is a pilot newsfeed from TCM's NewsGrabber.  This particular feed looks at newspapers, newswire services, and Top News sources.

Early Adopters in HR
The purpose of this group is to network with other early adopters in the HR field, and to provide a forum for those HR professionals wanting to road test new tools and ideas which may or may not prove useful for widespread implementation in their own or client organizations.

Founder's Syndrome
A place to chat about "Founder's Syndrome" -- a subject introduced on HRNET by Carter McNamara in September/2000. In Carter's words...   "This syndrome occurs when, rather than working toward its overall mission, the organization operates primarily according to the personality of a prominent person in the organization, for example, the founder, board chair/president, chief executive, etc. The syndrome is primarily an organizational problem -- not primarily a problem of the person in the prominent position."

HR Careers Job Notification Mailing List
This is an "announcement" list for people looking for jobs, or contracts, or simply wanting to monitor the job market in the HR / Training & Development fields.

Human Resource "Community"
This is a new experimental paradigm uses the Community Zero tools to provide a collaborative environment for HR professionals to interact with each other and to explore the world of digital collaboration.

Job Grabber
$$ - This is a fee based service for people interested in monitoring jobs posted on 21+ different job search engines.  Specific occupational areas are made available by job grabber including: training, facilitation, HR Executive, HR Generalist, OD, instructional design,  Knowledge Management, ERP, and a few others.

Job Market News
Every morning, TCM aggregates news highlights from the job market and distributes it to subscribers of this FREE service. (announcement only list)

Learning News
Every morning, TCM aggregates news from the world of learning gleaned from a variety of sources and distributes it to subscribers of this FREE service. (announcement only list)

Mentor Center
This is a community for interested people to discuss development and implementation of mentoring programs, and improvement / maintenance of existing programs. 

New Employee Orientation
A community for HR professionals to discuss design and implementation of new employee orientation processes. New concepts for company new employee orientation programs most welcome. 

Pletsus (Practices Leading Toward Sustainability)
Pletsus is a concept conceived by Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface Flooring, Inc. Pletsus principles are outlined in Anderson's book Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise. Anderson's vision is: to become a leader in industrial ecology by first becoming a sustainable corporation and eventually a restorative enterprise. . 

Religious Holidays Notification Service
...a weekly newsletter sent out each Friday identifying religious holidays for the next month. For company executives / HR departments wanting to acknowledge, recognize and celebrate cultural diversity in the workplace.

Teacher-To-Trainer
A support group for people making or wanting to make the transition from teacher to trainer in the corporate world community for HR professionals to discuss design and implementation of new employee orientation processes.
 
 

Communities of Practice (COMPRAC)
This site provides an online space for conversations on how to build and support Communities of Practice (CPs). 

Benefits-L
Focus on issues related to employee benefits.  Type: subscribe benefits-l firstname lastname 
List by Dr. Hannah, an economics professor at MTSU! There are currently @ 600 subscribers to this list. 

Compensation-L
Compensation (direct forms) Type: subscribe Compensation-L yourname 
Another of Dr. Hannah's lists from MTSU. 

Compensation & Benefits
An international forum for the discussion of employee compensation & benefits issues

The Coworking Initiative
Bernie DeKoven's initiative...
"We believe that the Internet has established a new work paradigm: where we find ourselves able to work more productively, without having to deal with office politics, frequently without even having to leave our homes. We believe that the Internet has proven that working together (CoWorking) collaboratively, interdependently, in mutually supportive relationships, anywhere, at any time, is more fun and more profitable." 

Cyberteams
A collaborative "place" for people interested in working in teams with others geographically and organizationally dispersed, inspired by a newsletter (http://www.millpondgroup.com/news.virtual.htm).  If you're interested in "reaching across space, time, and organizations", you will find a community of kindred spirits here!

Deep Fun
Another of Bernie DeKoven's initiatives...A Yahoo!Group "As adults, we find ourselves with little enough opportunity to have real, mature fun; and even less understanding of what real, mature fun is really all about. This list is open to anyone who would like to share in that exploration. "

Distance Learning
An "About.com" community hosted by Kristin Hirst

Diversity - DiversitySIG
Two resources to share experiences, ideas and strategies among those who work with and are interested in workforce diversity issues. Users are encouraged to ask for advice and talk about the issues that they are encountering in their workplace that deal with gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation. Diversity also includes discussions of more subtle differences in work style, leadership, learning and coaching. This list should be of particular interest to human resources professionals. 

e-Clippings
Over 250 e-news sources scanned on a daily basis and dozens of print sources on a weekly and monthly basis for the latest technological, cultural, governmental, international and educational news that will impact the growing world of e-learning. This means everything from broadband to ADL and SCORM to security issues. Boiled down into a weekly newsletter and an occasional special issue -- FREE...

Ethnic Marketing
For the discussion of targeted marketing to ethnic groups

Ethics
A forum for the free discussion of ethics in business, litigation, government, etc. 
 

Group Facilitation (GRP-FACL) ...a moderated discussion on the practice and theory of group facilitation. Participants share ideas, questions, and advice on group problem s1olving and decision making, group development, running meetings, and related topics.  Most participants are practicing group facilitators who work in diverse fields such as: meeting facilitation; conflict resolution; large group interventions; organization development; Total Quality Management; electronic meeting systems; strategic planning; team building; project management; and community planning.

HR Canada
HR-Canada is an e-mail discussion group devoted to general human resources topics of interest to Canadian HR professionals and related occupations. To view archive messages, you must first subscribe to HR-Canada (a free service) and have a guest account on HR On-Line (also free). 
To join HR-Canada, go to: http://www.HRonLine.com/forums/hr-can and follow the directions.

HRNET
International list server dedicated to the exchange of ideas between Human Resource professionals. Previously hosted by Cornell University. 

Human Resources Community Connection
This is part of Susan Heathfield's "About Human Resources" community -- rapidly evolving as one of the most dynamic HR portals on the net.

I-laugh
Working Humor discussion list.

Independent Facilitator's Network
A forum for the Business and Marketing aspects of facilitation and/or training as an independent 
consultant, facilitator, or trainer.

Instructional Technology Listservs and Newsletters
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities - ITS Office of Instructional Technology maintains this useful resource.

Online Facilitation
The onlinefacilitation listserv is for discussion about the skills, techniques and issues around 
online facilitation in a variety of Internet online environments and virtual communities. 

Open Space Technology Discussion Group
Open Space Technology is one way to enable all kinds of people, in any kind of organization, 
to create inspired meetings and events. Over the last 15 years, it has also become clear that 
opening space, as an intentional leadership practice, can create inspired organizations, 
where ordinary people work together to create extraordinary results with regularity.. 

ROINET
... for HRD professionals interested in evaluating the business impact of training and development efforts and interventions, measuring return on investment (ROI) in HR development, Organization Development, WBT, Knowledge Management.

Squarewheels Facilitation Newsletter
Scott Simmerman, the Square Wheels guy, has created an open forum for users of Square Wheels organizational development tools. 

SynchTrain
The "Synchronous Internet Training" list ('synctrain') is a discussion listed created to serve trainers, educators, and other people interested in Live Online Learning. This list is sponsored by InSync
Training Synergy, and is moderated by Jennifer Hofmann, a Virtual Classroom Designer. 

Telecommuting

Telecommuting - An "About.com" community hosted by Catherine Roseberry

alt.support.telecommute - A usenet newsgroup on the topic of telecommuting.

Trdev
This is a mature group of 2,000+ training & development professionals.  Successor discussion forum for David Passmore's TRDEV-L list.  TRDEV started in about 1994. 

VoiceActors
For working voice actors and student voice actors. Members share information about all aspects of voice acting: techniques, auditioning, training, and so forth. In addition, the list provides a way for voice actors to gain the advice and encouragement of other voice actors and fosters cooperation and cameraderie.
 

Can't find it here? Marcia Conner provides information on at least 80 more discussion groups (listservs) of interest to HR / Training & Development professionals.