Class Ended!

So, our HRST class at UC Berkeley class finally ended. It was a great experience to learn all the web 2.0 technologies and how we in Human Resources can leverage that in our own little departments.
We always talk about HR catering to people needs, caring for people, and human capital being the most valuable of all...
But just to say that HR is changing in few intriguing words doesn't change HR.
We have to take action and not just say it.
The easiest and so far the best way to make Human Resources a "brand" is to embrace Web 2.0 technology.
Web 2.0 technology allows us to be the part of the Strategic table -- something that HR has never been :(.
And although it may sound that this has to deal with IT guys or learn Computer technologies, but that is not the case.
Web 2.0 is as easy as playing a video game.
Everything is there -- you just need the attitude to be there.
Coming back to the HRST class... So we had 10 meeting each for 3 hours.
In fact, the class virtually started much before that.
Jun Cruzat, our HRST instructor (HR Systems manager at PIXAR) reached us before the class started through our class wiki https://sites.google.com/site/hrsystemsandtechnology/team-members/Home.
In fact that reminds...we came up with our own wikis.
He posted his own video and welcomed us to the class. That has never happened before..We learned about Technology, especially Web 2.0, the role of social networking sites in HR -- Twitter, Flickr, Podcast, Webinar.
The whole Project Management concept, demos from best of the breed Web Technologies like Workday, Avature, Peoplesoft, Success Factors etc.
And of course, not to forget "Blogs".
That's one of the reasons I am writing about my experience.
Apart from all of this, we also read a lot about people who are involved in HR and also have the knowledge of Human Resource Systems and Technology, like Jason Averbook...

Through his site "Knowledge Infusion", and their podcasts.


I will edit this and continue writing later Dont get bogged down by grammatical errors :)