This is going to be one of my shorter (probably the shortest) editorial columns.  I’ll most likely make up for it with the one in April, though, so please don’t feel cheated! The truth is, what I have to say this month doesn’t require as much in the way of word count.

One of the criticisms of digital TIPthat I most fervently wish I could have addressed is that despite publishing in a purely digital format, we still function a lot like a print publication.  There are a lot of things digital publishing brings with it, but to me, one of the most important is interactivity.  With interactivity, you get community building, as the conversation that begins in one issue can continue in the 3 months before the next issue is published.

2016

January 6–8                 The British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference. Glasgow, Scotland. Contact: http://www.bps.org.uk/events/conferences/division-occupational-psychology

February 24–28           Annual Conference of the Society of Psychologists in Management (SPIM). Atlanta, GA. Contact: www.spim.org. (CE credit offered.)

*More Information Posted Here in the Near Future*

Joe Colihanjoined the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minnesota as an adjunct professor.  He will be teaching Psychology and Work.  Students will learn traditional I-O topics from Paul Muchinsky's latest 2015 textbook and sustainability concepts from the newly published Psychology for Sustainability(2016) by Scott, Amel, Koger, and Manning. Joe also continues work with the People Analytics team at IBM, where he has held positions in survey research, selection and testing, and analytics for 24 years.

Steve Colarelliis in Hong Kong this year as visiting professor of Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Social Media & I-O Psychology: Take the Challenge! 

Results of a recent SIOP branding study were somewhat bleak. Out of 712 business and HR professionals sampled, only 19.4% were familiar with I-O psychology and only 8.7% were aware of SIOP (Rose, McCune, Spencer, Rupprecht, & Drogan, 2013).