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Archive for December, 2004

Don’t Get Excited, Don’t Lose Your Head: Why Testifying Experts Should NOT Worry About Daubert

I found this rather interesting entry on Blog 702, regarding Daubert challenges and what experts should know about them.
Very briefly, it argues that experts shouldn’t get too concerned about understanding legal issues surrounding Daubert challenges. I don’t think it means that they shouldn’t understand

what types of challenges may be raised against their testimony, [...]


Those Aging Baby Boomers: Age of Opportunity Or Time to Sue?

Yep, I’m now a card-carrying AARP member. When my wife, who just became eligible as a member handed me an AARP card with my name on it, my first thought was: “Throw it away, I’m way too young for this. I’ll send it to my mother.” Then I thought: “Well, that’s cool. I [...]


Firing bloggers part III — avoiding unnecessary conflicts

In Part I of this series, I looked at some tragic cases in which freewheeling bloggers lost their jobs when their blogging activities created what was perceived by management as an unacceptable conflict with corporate interests.
In Part II, I discussed some considerations in dealing with employee-bloggers, including potential marketing benefits, potential PR risks, and the [...]


A brief word on my upgraded tech toolbag

I’m very pleased with a few changes I’ve made in my websurfing/blogging toolkit. Thought others might be interested.
First, as I’ve noted before, I’m using Bloglines both to maintain my extensive RSS blogroll at right and to serve as my personal newsreader or news aggregator. I find it very convenient, especially since [...]


Around the Employment/HR Blogosphere

With a little holiday work lull, and extra time at home, I’m catching up on my blogreading using bloglines.
Following are some of my favorites from the many interesting posts I’ve seen on other employment/HR blogs (all listed in the blogroll at right).
First, from Benefitsblog, a prediction regarding 2005 compensation: “Costs of Benefits Will Eat Into [...]