Michael Specht

Arrived in Sydney late Monday evening for a very busy week, lots of meetings, attending Web Directions, Port 80, AussieTUB, presenting at a user group on Change Management and sitting on a panel for the NSW Knowledge Management forum discussing the value of social media and networking for business.
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I thought I would give you a quick update on where things are going with my new venture.
Set up
I have a company and name. Inspecht.
I have engaged a graphic designer to create a logo. I got some initial concepts last night, current favourites are:

Web site is coming, the content has been drafted and once [...]

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Every year in Australia there is a fundraising event called the World’s Greatest Shave, which is designed to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. Where people shave their head, beard, legs, wax off hair or just colour their hair all in the name of fund raising, read more about it.
This year Richard Giles is participating, [...]

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With the markets still a bit rocky more and more people are concerned about layoffs, and quite rightly so. A month ago I posted about Robert Scoble’s 17 Tips for Job Seekers, today I have some more tips for you.
HR World has 16 tips on how to make the best of a bad thing:-
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A quick update post on my rant.
A couple of days ago Twitter announced they would be working with Joyeur to help stablise their infrastructure. Well it seems after the last 24 hours that relationship is now more. Posts from Joyuer, Download Squad, & Data Centre Knowledge.
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Rant ahead, leave if offended.
First let me say I <3 Twitter, and would pay for the service assuming below is fixed.
Twitter must be the most unreliable web service ever, there I said it! I help organise the Melbourne Twitter meet ups so normally I am very biased but reliability is something Twitter does not have.
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Here is a bit of humour.
When most people quit they hand in a resignation letter and tend to speak with their boss. Try this for an approach, link.

Maybe not :-),
It is not real, but it is real funny.
If you did get a resignation letter like this you would certainly wonder about the satisfaction of your [...]

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I was reading Twitter Facts during lunch and thought, “how many of us are in Australia?” so I spent a few minutes to find out. I used 2 different tools, first TwitDir and then Twitter’s in built search.
Just to note both search tools have limits. TwitDir only searches public timelines, while both search Usernames, Locations [...]

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For the last few years I have wanted to setup a free community access point, but not been able to find the right way to do it. Earlier this week I read about Lachlan Hardy using Meraki Mini’s to do just that in Sydney and then his bold idea to do a bulk order [...]

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Last night was the 3rd MTUB (Melbourne Twitter Underground Brigade) meetup, sponsored by Adobe (and someone else but I can’t remember) who bought us all a few drinks and pizza. I think fun was had by all, highlights.

There was an iPhone in the wild, anyone who touched it had complete iPhone lust
Lots of photos were [...]

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