For a lot of us, vacation has come and gone, and it’s back to reality. I’m the type of person that is always planning a vacation. So much so that when I came back from my family trip to Florida last winter, I had a girls’ weekend planned for the spring within 72 hours. I truly do love my vacation because it provides a break, not just from work, but my day to day life in general.

Our friend Steve Boese, in addition to teaching HR master’s students at the Rochester Institute of Technology about leveraging HR tech, writes a fantastic blog about the subject, and considers himself a BBQ aficionado. This interesting combination of expertise, and the summer months inspired a post about BBQ on our Talent Management Blog.

The Brand for Talent blog, had a post from back in May that definitely caught my eye based on the title alone – A Life of Weisure. What is weisure you ask? Weisure is a term coined by NYU sociology professor Dalton Conley that is meant to explain the “blurring of work and play, what we do, and where we do it”, as explained by this article on CNN.com. The concept of weisure struck me as very timely given the rise of the new creative class of bloggers, and definitely raises a lot of questions around traditional concepts of work.

Last week, we launched a cool new tool geared for HR pros – a search tool for HR blogs.

The HR and workplace blogging community has a wealth of rich content, ideas and opinions on the field. This new tool is designed to help you dig deeper into these resources – we’ve selected dozens of some of the best HR blogs so you can search them directly.

As we mentioned last week, Kris Dunn, of HR Capitalist and Fistful of Talent blogs will be joining us at our 4th Annual Halogen User Conference, scheduled for October 14-15 in Ottawa, to share some social media lessons for HR.

In preparation for that, here’s a little bit of info on one very popular social media service – Twitter.