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

links for 2005-12-08

December 8th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 1,086 views

JotSpot Tracker - Stop emailing spreadsheets
Yet another productivity tool now online, JotSpot trackers allows Excel like functionality on the web.
(tags: web2.0 ajax online software)

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Corporate blogging in Australia

December 8th, 2005 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Communication · 2,698 views

I noticed an interesting article on Australian IT about Telstra and their new propaganda activities, nowwheretalking.
offers a raft of Telstra information, including statistics, speeches by executives, blogs from Telstra staff and feature articles supporting the company’s position on regulation of the telecommunications industry.
(Emphasis mine)
They have gone and created 11 employee written blogs. While [...]

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Best Recruiting Blog Nominations

December 8th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Blogging · 1,898 views

Well after missing out on Australia’s best blog and questioning what a blog is in the first round of nominations on the Best Recruiting Blogs I now find myself nominated in the Best Recruiting Blogs in the category of Best HR Blog, thanks to Oliver Davouot.
So I guess I can show the tabsI’ve been [...]

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links for 2005-12-07

December 7th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 1,126 views

PPT Slide
A presentation by Seth Godin from July 2000 on Viral Marketing, still very relevant today
(tags: presentation marketing)

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Bridge Girl triumphs in blog competition

December 7th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Blogging · 1,550 views

Bugger I guess I am not $10,000 richer, Bridge Girl triumphs. The results of Australia’s best blog, run by ISP SmartyHost, were released yesterday. The “blogs were judged on content, creativity, uniqueness, and frequency and currency of postings. Based on these criteria, Bridge girl traveling diary received the highest combined score from the [...]

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