Michael Specht

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

Entries from June 2006

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June 26th, 2006 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,358 views

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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4th July - Declare independence from mainstream media!

June 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Communication, New Media · 1,760 views

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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Restoring my son’s computer

June 24th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Personal, Technology · 2,298 views

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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Interviewing for Google

June 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Recruitment · 1,952 views

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:-
1. You have been shrunk down to the size of a nickel [...]

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Do you have blog posts you don’t need?

June 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Blogging, Recruitment · 1,203 views

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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