Michael Specht

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

Entries from October 2005

Interviews

October 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, HR Management · 1,240 views

Over the last couple of months I have been interviewed twice by mainstream media on blogging and HR. First was by Jean-Paul Pelosi from Human Capital looking at how blogging is finding its way into the corporate world and whether the trend should concern HR and business leaders. Jean-Paul also interviewed Richard Giles, [...]

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A culture for collaboration

October 16th, 2005 · 3 Comments · HR Management, Technology · 3,444 views

In the comments of my last post Regina Miller points to her posts at Corante’s Future Tense on creating a culture for collaboration where she extends some of the ideas and thoughts from Nancy White on collaboration with Web 2.0 tools. Nancy tries to dispel the myth of “effortless collaboration”, which is what the [...]

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Into the grey zone

October 15th, 2005 · 7 Comments · HR Management · 3,748 views

Leon Gettler from Management Line posted a couple of days ago about the grey zone in organisations ie the things you make for personal use while on company time and which companies secretly endorse. This is an interesting dilemma.
How does the HR profession react, while the issue is not new people [...]

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Looking for the perfect experience

October 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Technology · 1,130 views

Andy Scherer wants to know what to ask HR and managers about the usability of self service applications. If you have some thoughts or ideas leave him a comment. Hopefully Andy can post back his findings.
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links for 2005-10-14

October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 845 views

Email 2.0. Many-to-Many:
An email hack to manage the digital rights of your emails
(tags: email DRM hack)

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The referral buzz

October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,417 views

Oh the noise about referrals over the last month or two is making my head hurt. Who is right and who is wrong? Is it ethical is it not? Do they work or not? I just don’t know. What I do know is all western world countries are heading down the [...]

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59 mins is all it took

October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 782 views

It took Chris 59 mins to find my post, that is damm fast and really cool.
Do you or your ganisations PR department react that quickly to what is posted online?
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Is blogging good for HR?

October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging · 750 views

There has been an interesting discussion going on a http://professor.hrblogs.org/ if you look in the comments you can follow along. The main thrust is around is blogging good for HR, employees and organisations a great discussion, one of the last comments (when I read) was “I think what we really need to address here [...]

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Email problems

October 14th, 2005 · 3 Comments · General · 1,613 views

Over the last couple of weeks I have had several issues in sending mail from GMail. A couple of organisations have started to completely block GMail, in particular PageUp which is anonying as I have to deal with people there. When I send a message I get a reply :-
A message sent by [...]

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links for 2005-10-13

October 13th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 922 views

Richard Giles blog: Podcasting Pocket Guide
Richard’s pocket guide to podcasting is available for pre ordering on Amazon
(tags: podcast book)

Thoughts from a Management Lawyer: Blogging About Work
Some good links to why you should be very careful about blogging about work
(tags: blog work hrm)

The More Space Project (Astronaut Projects)
A new book on business blogging, if I find [...]

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