Michael Specht

Where the Hell is Matt? | Copyblogger
A unique viral marketing event undertaken by a crewing gum company. Matt originally travelled the world and danced at different location. Now he has been paid to do the same by a crewing gum company.
(tags: marketing viral)

Linkie Winkie
I have seen Linkie Wikie referenced several times today, I [...]

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Found this interesting idea on Cameron’s Brain, declare 4th July as a day of independence from mainstream media. Not being in the US the 4th July is usually just another day, so this is a great idea to give it meaning. The idea was kicked around but a number of people on the [...]

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Last weekend I had a bright idea of rebuilding my son’s computer, an old HP Pavilion 6535 we bought while we were in Canada and had shipped back to Australia in 2000.
Bad idea!
Initially I could not find the HP restore disks. But being a bit of a geek I had an old Windows 98 [...]

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We all know Google is a tough place to interview for, a bit like Microsoft. I came across this old post detailing two questions asked during an interview at Google, provides some interesting insight into Google as an organisation. The questions were:-
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Jason, Gretchen and Zoe all had dinner together.  They had a few to drink started to talk and came up with the idea of the GREAT BIG BLOG SWAP!!  The basic run down is get a
bunch of blogger to write post for other blogs, with a bit of organisation.
Anyone who has an interest in recruitment, [...]

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Well today is 23 June, an important day in history for two reasons.
Firstly it is my blogoversary!  23 June 2004 I typed up my first post on Blogger.  I decided on Blogger after failing to get MoveableType up and running after a couple of weeks of trying.  I suspect it was me not the tool!  [...]

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After several hours of research, bug fixing and testing I have got hrblogs.org back up and running.  Sorry if the outage has impacted you in any way.
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Over the last 24 hours my hosting provider has been having problems with their environments.  It seems they have been over run by spam and phishing attacks which has brought some of the servers down.  We are back up at the moment!
This problem is also impacting hrblogs.org (still having problems) and community.hrblogs.org, sorry for any [...]

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There must be something in the water because I received an email late last week announcing a new International Job Board (in Beta), recruit.net which covers Australia at australia.recruit.net, along with Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and India. What is really interesting is this seems to be a vertical search play!
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Just caught that a new IT job board launched last week, gurus.com.au from the team at NowHiring.  You can read about the launch at the NowHiring blog.
What I like about the tool is it has combined both jobs and resumes in an easy to use interface, while not the first to do this but probably [...]

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