Michael Specht

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

Entries from December 2005

Seek and you shall find

December 18th, 2005 · 10 Comments · Recruitment · 2,765 views

On Friday OnRec published a press release from Seek about how Nielsen//NetRatings had understated Seek’s traffic between April & October 2005 by about 8-10%. Given that Seek claims to draw 1,702,485 unique browsers and 1,733,488 in October and November 2005 respectively this is a fairly large understatement!
This statement got me thinking, how is Seek [...]

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Talentism and the best blogs

December 15th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Blogging, RSS · 1,449 views

Jeff from Talentism provides us with run down of his best blogs based on the nominations in the Recruiting.com Best Blogs Awards for 2005.
I have been thinking a lot about which blogs I read an why, Jeff’s post and the listings of nominations have got me thinking further on the topic. I have boiled [...]

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Yes voting is really open

December 14th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Blogging · 1,364 views

Yes voting is open for Recruiting.com’s Best Blog Awards. The prize, lots of coffee, a trip to Vegas, oh and the feeling of being recognised by your peers.
I would certainly recommend anyone who has anything to do with HR, recruitment, management, learning or knowledge management to check out the blogs. Then vote for [...]

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Voting is open! (Soon)

December 9th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Recruitment · 1,676 views

UPDATED

Yes it is true, Voting has opened opening next week in Recruiting.com 2005 Best Blog awards! Get voting, next week!.
This is a fanstastic exercise from the guys at Recruiting.com, Jobster and how can we forget Joel for the idea!
Only one thing, we can’t let Microsoft win all the awards, oh and I’m sure [...]

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Robert H. Stambaugh died

December 9th, 2005 · No Comments · HR Management, HRIS · 1,281 views

John Macy just emailed me to let me know that last week Robert (Bob) H. Stambaugh died last week aged 59. For those who did not know Bob he was a major influencing factor in HRIS thought leadership over the last 30 years writing many articles and presenting at dozens of conference. I [...]

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