Michael Specht

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

Entries from July 2007

Culture at Microsoft & Google

July 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · HR Management, Management · 2,689 views

About a week or two ago an anonymous blogger posted what is meant to be from an internal mailing list in Microsoft that compares the culture of the different workplaces. The comments, all 425 of them at the time of writing, tend to indicate that the email might be true but there is also an [...]

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Testing out always on contectivity

July 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Communication, Management, Technology · 1,519 views

Just got my hands on a demo HP iPAQ 6965 unit to trial over the next few weeks, as my boss is away who is testing it out and has another few weeks to go on the test program. It will give me a great chance to learn about how I would use such [...]

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Always on connectivity and management

July 2nd, 2007 · 11 Comments · Change Management, Communication, Future, Learning, Management, Productivity, Social Networks · 2,922 views

I wrote about hyperconnectivity a few days ago which is essentially a technology trend, but it is and will continue to have a profound impact on management both professional and personal. The basic issue is with everything always connected and communicating where does one draw the line?
Let’s take the obvious examples, BlackBerry’s and personal [...]

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Social networks in the extreme

July 1st, 2007 · 10 Comments · Social Networks, Technology · 1,836 views

Today I was lucky enough to get an invite to Pownce, thanks JJ, which is cool as I can claim to be one of the first 10,000 no 50,000 no 100,000 people on the service which keeps up my street cred as being ahead of the curve. But it raises the same issue as I [...]

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