John Hollon

What differentiates TLNT from ERE.net? What are the trends in HR and talent management TLNT is reporting on? What's "in the news" is industry consolidation!

John Hollon is Vice President for Editorial of TLNT.com, and the former Editor of Workforce Management. He has written extensively about human resources and talent management, and joins us here for a Big Picture Channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio.

TLNT "is an HR blog about the business of HR, with news, insight, and topical information from experts and thought leaders in HR, talent management, and all areas related to HR and managing a workforce. This includes legal topics and issues, compensation and benefits (health, financial/retirement, and voluntary), HR technology and software, training and development, HR management, and other related areas."

This year, TLNT presents its first TLNT Transform Conference in Austin, Texas February 27-28 at the Palmer Event Center.

Patrick Riley

Conducted in September 2011, the most recent iteration of Modern Survey's bi-annual study of employee engagement levels in the U.S. workforce found that 70% of employees are now either disengaged or under engaged at their job - a record high number since Modern Survey began tracking these numbers in 2007 before the recession started.

Welcome to a Big Picture Channel Podcast on TotalPicture Radio. Today, Peter Clayton interviews Patrick Riley, CEO and Co-founder of Modern Survey, "a human capital measurement company. From licensed technologies to full-service enterprise solutions, Modern Survey helps organizations gather employee and customer feedback to create positive change and sound business decisions."

Gregg Robins

Many of us dream of pursuing creative passions. Gregg Robins has followed his dream and turned it into reality.

This is Peter Clayton, welcome to a Big Picture Channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio. I have the delight of having on the show a good friend, Gregg Robins, whom I met many years ago when he was at Citibank. We did a bunch of films together in Europe, while he was running the Private Bank's communications initiative to convert to the Euro, and handling all the issues around Y2K. Gregg currently lives in Moscow. This is a really unusual podcast for us because we're going to take a very personal journey into Gregg's life.

We recorded this interview in New York, when Gregg was here to master an album that he has written and produced with the help of some very remarkable musicians. I wanted Gregg to tell the story of how this evolved. Obviously, he came from the business world, but has a real passion and a talent for music.

Gregg's new album, titled "Everything that Matters" debuts October 25. You can learn more about Gregg and listen to much of his music on his web site, greggrobins.com.

Mark Willaman and Kevin Grossman

Welcome to a Big Picture Channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting.

I'm happy to have on the show today Mark Willaman, who is the founder and CEO of HRMarketer.com, and Kevin Grossman, the company's chief marketplace evangelist.

We're going to be discussing their 10th anniversary; learning about SocialEars, a new product they just launched out at HRTech in Las Vegas and industry trends in the B2B space, especially as they relate to HR.

According to Willaman, "SocialEars is an algorithm that we built that essentially sits on top of all of our information databases. Whenever we add people to our database, whether they're a press contact, an analyst, or now a social voice, we collect their social networking information. Are they on Facebook? Are they on LinkedIn? Do they tweet, do they blog?

"We then aggregate, using SocialEars, all their conversations, and it allows us to build individual tag clouds so people can see what respected people are actually talking about online, or we can build tag clouds across our entire database to see what topics are trending."

Stephen Leeb

"You know, the benefit of this, Peter, is just as in China, if we do wake up to this, we will create a number of very big growth industries in this country; huge growth industries." Stephen Leeb

Welcome to a Big Picture Channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Stephen Leeb's provocative and insightful new book, Red Alert: How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life is a frightening look at the growing political, economic, and social power of China and the threat that nation poses to the Western world. It lays out how the Chinese are strategizing to overtake the United States as the world's premier economic power-and details how our failure to respond quickly will result in a permanently lower standard of living for Americans.

Stephen's previous interviews on TotalPicture Radio are some of the most popular podcasts we've produced -- garnering thousands of downloads. I am pleased to have him back.

In Red Alert, Leeb argues that while U.S. officials and politicians engage in short-term myopic planning, endless legal maneuvering, scandals, and wartime investing that are crippling American economic viability, China's government is run by visionary scholars with backgrounds in such fields as chemistry and engineering who are carefully analyzing the long-term, big picture.