Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries from March 2005

More on business spam (unsolicited email)

March 28th, 2005 · 5 Comments · General · 1,577 views

A couple of days ago I posted about business spam and where it fits within my framework. I posted about ResumeFit and a couple of emails I received from Tom Schmidt the CEO. Well it was not really spam as it was not sent indiscriminately to multiple people, just to me. As such Tom actually [...]

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Work life balance do you have it

March 26th, 2005 · No Comments · HR Management · 1,243 views

A couple of interesting things passed under my nose today. Firstly I saw from Scoble and Steve Rubel that several well known bloggers are trying to get some more blog life balance. Then I was listening to the second ComputerWorld Live show where they were discussing the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) Work Life Balance policy [...]

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JobsBlogCasts

March 25th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 1,182 views

The forward thinking (read cool) Gretchen has released a new podcast called Jobcast where she is interviewing Microsoft employees, managers and recruiters to give us all a first hand understanding of Microsoft from all perspectives. All these cool things almost makes me want to go work for Microsoft… Maybe that is the point [...]

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Business spam

March 25th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 2,232 views

This morning I checked my Gmail and found some spam that Google had not caught. Why am I surprised? Because it was actually interesting, relevant and real. I got two emails from Tom Schmidt CEO of ResumeFit.com while the content was interesting and the proposed service might work it is still spam.
However this does [...]

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HR and your company’s brand

March 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Branding, HR Management · 1,353 views

Regina from deep your brand is instilled within your organisation. Very interesting read.
It got me thinking about the different clients I have worked with over the years and which of them had their brand instilled in their HR systems and processes. Some of the best implementations of workplace systems have certainly been in organisations who [...]

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