Michael Specht

Last night at around 5.30pm I received a call from Penny Elmslie, the marketing manager at NGA.Net about two topics that they were very excited about. First was they had started a blog, second they had purchased a company.
While the first piece of news is not that earth shattering for some, I personally feel it is great [...]

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Over the last 2 weeks I have been giving a series of presentations looking at how social media (and Enterprise 2.0) can drive employee engagement. While the slides are available on slideshare for download I wanted to give a bit of context.
As part of preparing the presentation I came across a presentation by Susan Scrupski [...]

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This guest post is contributed by Melissa Tamura.
Every employer wants to get the most productivity from their employees. If you push too hard, though, you risk making employees unhappy, causing unwelcome turnover and costing you money. So the question remains, how do you motivate your employees to work their best?
Praise
Employers are often amazed how well [...]

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The team at Navigo, distributors of OrgPlus, have released their 2010 reasearch report into HR technology usage by larger organisations in Australia, you can get your copy of the report at http://hrtechreport.com.au.
The report is an interesting read focusing more on organisation’s satisfaction with their solutions than looking at overall trend in usage. Having said that [...]

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Thomas Otter, Gartner Analyst by day cyclist by night, posted on his Gartner blog last week about the new XING Competency Card and how it raises questions around the need for “complex, expensive, poorly maintained HR competency management applications behind the firewall”.
The competency card allow you to add skills to your XING profile (think a LinkedIn [...]

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