Michael Specht

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

Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'

WordCamp Melbourne

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,024 views

James Farmer, edublogs.org fame, is organising a WordCamp for Melbourne on Saturday 17th November.
He has secured a sponsor, Eight Black, who incidentally are support lots of activities down in Melbourne, so if you need any form of online marketing campaigns check them out! Got a venue WaterMark Bar, and a program that looks good.
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Felt like blogging, but the feeling passed

October 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Blogging · 1,186 views

It is interesting the change Twitter has made to my mindset on blogging. I basically I think of something, think can I express the idea or even a portion of the idea in 140 characters. If yes it goes to Twitter, otherwise I turn to the blog.  Once I get to the blog I find [...]

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Slide show available online

September 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging, HR Management, New Media, RSS, Social Networks, Wikis · 2,302 views

I have put the slides from last night’s presentation online at SlideShare, they can be viewed via http://www.slideshare.net/mspecht/intro-for-hr-on-blogs-web-20/, only issue is you miss out on my fantastic commentary.
A couple of points

The cartoons are all Hugh Macleod’s of gapingvoid fame
To review the buzz words you need to view the CommonCraft Show videos
To learn about Web 2.0 [...]

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Employees and Web 2.0

September 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Blogging, HR Management, Social Networks · 1,774 views

One of the topics I covered during last night’s presentation was how to build safeguards within your organisation so that employees for who were interacting in this brave new web 2.0 world. (Converts of Web 2.0 you might think I have lost it so before you all stand up and walk out hear me [...]

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Web 2.0 and HR

September 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Enterprise 2.0, HR Management, Knowledge Management · 2,089 views

Over the last few weeks I have been preparing a presentation on Web 2.0 and Social Networks to give to a group of HR professionals. The topics I plan to cover are:-

Provide a quick overview of what this all is
How they help employees use them for good not evil
How Enterprises can use the tools, [...]

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Blogging to be a little light on

August 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Personal · 1,624 views

Right now blogging is a little light on due to many reasons, things should right themselves soon. Having said that the fact of writing one post will probably generate me to post lots more.
Anyway if I don’t post for now, I’m sorry, I will soon.
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Blasts from the Past

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Change Management, Communication, Knowledge Management, Learning · 2,212 views

Over the last couple of days I have been looking for inspiration on what to blog about, so I started researching a couple of topics on communication, collaboration and employee engagement. Funny enough I found some of my old posts, so I thought instead of writing something new I would give you “5 Blasts from [...]

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My Link Blog

August 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging · 2,017 views

Over the last year or more I have been sharing items from Google Reader in my Link Blog, it occurred to me that I have no idea if anyone actually subscribes to it and if so should I keep up sharing what I read.
The answer? FeedBurner.
I took my really unfriendly Google Shared Items feed;
http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/16562930266800406239/state/com.google/broadcast
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MODM4 was last night

August 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogging, New Media · 1,557 views

As a self confessed social/digital media groupie I attended MODM4 last night at the Riverland Bar on the side of the Yarra River, food and drinks were provided by Simon Chen from EightBlack.
Many of the “regulars” were in attendance good to catch up with them, also met a few new people which is even better.  [...]

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Lost my readers?

June 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogging · 1,386 views

I have noticed a very interesting occurrence since my blog died, well actually the hosting provider disappeared, my readers seem to have disappeared as well. Not sure if it is a timing thing, an issue with the feed, if my Googlejuice has dried up, the stars are out of alignment or if was something I [...]

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