Michael Specht

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

Entries Tagged as 'General'

Worlds Greatest Shave

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments · General · 989 views

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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Concerned about layoffs?

March 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · General, Recruitment · 1,121 views

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:-
1. Keep [...]

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Twitter, Twitter, Twitter

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments · General · 893 views

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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Twitter - Something is technically wrong.

January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments · General · 1,155 views

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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Quiting your job?

January 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General · 1,485 views

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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