hrblogs.org

Interesting - a newly hatched blog community for HR professionals, started up by Michael Specht: hrblogs.org. (via the HR Technology Discussion Board )

hrblogs.org is a free blogging service for HR professionals that will provide Wordpress based blogs to anyone who works within the HR profession regardless of location. If you work as a generalist, manager, recruiter, industrial relation specialist, or remuneration and benefits, in fact any area of HR, hrblogs.org will enable you to establish a free blog.

Running on wordpress, I think it needs an aggregator page with an RSS feed, and an OPML listing of available blogs. I can see how this might be interesting for people new to blogging, but I'm wondering if it's better to sign up for a service like this that might end up locking you in to a community, or start up a more general purpose blog and get added to a community directory. In fact, hrblogs.org could (should) also be providing a community directory service - "add your HR related blog here". But overall, I like the idea, and considering the benefits HR people could realise from social media tools, any initiative that makes it easier to start and experiment with blogs is a good thing.