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Limiting employees visibility of other offices

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

When we developed HR Locker we imaged that everybody would want all employees to be able to see all other employees in the Directory and Who’s Off section. Some of our larger clients said they didn’t want this. Typically this was to prevent employees in multinationals seeing employees in a different country. You asked. We [...]

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Is cloud computing safe for HR data?

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

I’m going to be posting a couple of different blog entries on cloud security. I was in a meeting yesterday and somebody said they felt there is a security issue with hosting HR data in the cloud. I asked them where their existing HR software sits. He showed me a server in the corner of [...]

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HR Locker featured in cloud computing report

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Goodbody Economic Consultants released a report on the potential of cloud computing for the Irish economy. It reckons that up to €9.5 billion could be generated by Irish companies selling cloud based services by 2014. This would provide jobs for approximately 8,600 people.
Good news for the small companies is that it forecasts growth of an [...]

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HRLocker featured by Microsoft

Monday, January 17th, 2011

I’m delighted to say that Microsoft Europe ran a full two page spread on HR Locker in the December issue of Futures, its European innovation magazine. Microsoft has been hugely supportive of HR Locker since we started working on the project. I’d really recommend any startup using Microsoft technology to connect with their BizSpark team.
You [...]

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Linkedin and employee data

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Should I care about employee data in Linkedin? It depends on who’s asking.
It’s unlikely that a company would prohibit an employee from publishing their position on Linkedin. It would seem, at best, like an unreasonable request. But Linkedin aggregates all positions for all employees in a company. It also records when and how many employees [...]

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The importance of linkbacks

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

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Apparently, if all links point to your home page search engines begins to think that there’s something fishy going on and demotes your page rank (how important it sees you) or drops you down a few pages in organic search results. To provide at least one deep link to a page on our site I’ve [...]

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Hr software training video

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

We just posted a new training video to introduce HR Locker to regular employees. It was an interesting project to work on. We wrote the script in Cork and emailed it to a voice over professional in Clare, Ireland. We advertised the video work on elance.com and got three bids within a couple of hours. [...]

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