This past week, I had the distinct pleasure and the opportunity to join the crew at HR Happy Hour (Twitter hashtag <a title="Search Twitter for #HRHappyHour" href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23hrhappyhour">#HRHappyHour</a>) for a panel discussion on Religion and Politics in the Workplace.  Jason Seiden (<a title="Jason's Twitter profile" href="http://twitter.com/seiden">@seiden</a>, <a title="Jason's Website Fail Spectacularly" href="http://jasonseiden.com/">web</a>) guest-hosted the call in place of regular host <a title="Steve's Twitter profile" href="http://twitter.com/steveboese">Steve Boese</a>.  <a title="Shauna's Twitter profile" href="http://twitter.com/HR_Minion">Shauna Moerke</a> assisted with the hosting duties and <a title="Tammy's Twitter profile" href="http://twitter.com/TLColson">Tammy Colson</a> was also a panelist.

The discussion and the associated tweet chat were very lively.  I don't know if they archived the Twitter traffic or not but the audio including about 15 minutes of teleconference beyond the end of the show are recorded here.
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<p style="text-align: left;">Thanks to Jason, Shauna, Tammy, Steve and all the wonderful folks from the HR world that were on the call or listened in.  I probably followed 50 new people but at the same time I also saw some #LeadChange members who are also in the HR community including <a href="http://twitter.com/sbrownehr">Steve Browne</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/MeghanMBiro">Meghan Biro</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/rustiann">Rusti-Ann Blanke</a>, and many other friends participated in the chat too! I enjoyed it very much.  We'll have to return the favor one day soon.</p>