It’s Friday, y’all, so whether you choose to celebrate by blaring the Rebecca Black song on your iPhone or by fleeing your cubicle to enjoy the beautiful spring weather, be sure to check out what’s been going on this week on the TSC blog and beyond.

• InfluenceHR Early Bird Discount Ends Soon — Discounts for InfluenceHR expire soon! Want to make it to the conference and delight your head of finance all at the same time? Tickets are just $300 right now — a savings of $295 over the on-site price. But move fast. This discount expires May 7. 
• Top 4 Employee Recognition Trends of 2014 — Our friends over at Quantum Workplace have released a new report on 2014 trends in employee recognition that is worth a download. If you work with recognition and engagement — either as an employer or HCM vendor — you’ll want to look at the top trends we found in this report. 
  

Want to make it to the conferenceand delight yourhead of finance all at the same time? Tickets are just $300 right now — a savings of $295 over the on-site price. But move fast. This discount expires May 7. 

InfluenceHR is the only event featuring game-changing speakers who will deliver actionable insights from companies transforming HCM marketing every day — don’t miss out on this opportunity to get insights you won’t find anywhere else.

I’m a member of The Starr Conspiracy’s Quality Control team. My job is to keep typos, awkward writing, grammatical errors, and other embarrassing mistakes from leaving the shop. Sometimes I have to be a pain in the ass and ask people to rewrite stuff, ask stupid questions, and spend way more time than a sane person would ever want to with my nose in the dictionary and the AP Stylebook. I also do a lot of random Google searches to verify names, places, addresses, phone numbers, and other miscellaneous information. Facts don't check themselves, people.

And it’s all worth it, because it prevents stuff like this from happening.