Michael Specht

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

Entries from April 2007

Blog Upgrade

April 25th, 2007 · No Comments · General · 1,190 views

Just a quick note to let you know that I am in the process of upgrading Wordpress, things might will break so please bear with me.
Update 1: Ok things are back but I need to upgrade many of my plugins so things will still look a bit strange for a while.
Update 2: Most plugins [...]

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Workplace saftey

April 24th, 2007 · No Comments · HR Management · 1,775 views

For the HR folks out there, or anyone with health and safety responsibilities this is something you don’t want! Moulten Molten steel kills 32 workers. (Updated spelling serves me right for posting quickly.)

In one of the worst accidents seen in China’s perilous steel industry, 32 workers were killed when molten metal poured into [...]

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Crazy Egg heats up my blog

April 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging · 1,364 views

Over the last couple of weeks I have been running a little usability experiment on my blog. Using Crazy Egg to measure what visitors have been doing, where they have been going and hopefully let me know how to make the blog a better place. Read/Write Web has a great run down on what [...]

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How many people are online?

April 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Blogging, Future, New Media, Recruitment · 2,902 views

During the recent discussion on “Do You Need a Resume?” we were reminded that not everyone is online or knows how to find you online. Many people are still scared of technology, don’t understand it or are just plain ignorant of what can be achieved. (This is not just in the workplace [...]

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Here come the Video stars

April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,063 views

The New York Times is reporting about the growth in using video as a format for resumes. The article talks about WorkBlast a new site to make the creation of these video resumes even easier.
This is not new but is becoming more popular and for some roles it will become a mandatory part of [...]

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