Michael Specht

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

Entries Tagged as 'Learning'

Using Facebook to Learn

June 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Learning, Social Networks · 669 views

Just a quick post as my laptop battery is about to die:-).
Last week I noticed an interesting post over at The Inquisitr “Udutu Launches LMS Application For Facebook“, very interesting an actual revenue generating application for Facebook! Their press release can be read here. While the Facebook application is still in Beta it is a [...]

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Talent Management Marketplace changes

May 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments · HRIS, Learning, Recruitment · 744 views

Last week we saw the announcement that Taleo will acquire Vurv, essentially number 1 taking number 2 in the Talent Management marketplace. This is both good and bad news for the other players in the market. Bad because the combined entity will certainly be a major player, good in that both companies will have to [...]

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Corporations in virtual worlds

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Future, Learning, Technology · 1,088 views

There has been a fair amount written over the last couple years of corporation running public presentations and employee communication sessions in virtual world such as SecondLife. Some of the largest users have been IBM, Sun Microsystems and Cisco, however most fo this work seems to have been public type presentations.
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Learning and YouTube

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Learning, Technology · 597 views

A couple of days ago I came across an article in the Australian IT about how a leading Australian university, Macquarie University, is starting to look at using YouTube to deliver lectures.
Very interesting idea.
Macquarie has been making lectures available for download to students for about 3 years now, so a move to video is not [...]

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Educating HR on metrics & technology

October 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · HR Management, HRIS, Learning · 1,316 views

As I mentioned a few days ago I have been asked to help re-write a topic in AHRI’s Professional Diploma of HR looking at measuring and reporting on the effectiveness of HR and selection and implementation of HRIS systems. Over the last few days I have been re-reading lots of books and articles I have [...]

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Blasts from the Past

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Change Management, Communication, Knowledge Management, Learning · 2,037 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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Always on connectivity and management

July 2nd, 2007 · 11 Comments · Change Management, Communication, Future, Learning, Management, Productivity, Social Networks · 2,901 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?
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Reflection

May 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future, General, Learning · 1,610 views

Nigel James reflects on 20 years since he left school with an invitation to his 20 year reunion back in Australia. Yes I agree Nigel a 13 hour flight is shorter than 26, but when you are in the middle of a 9 hour flight anything over 2 hours makes you feel like a [...]

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Did You Know video follow up post

April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Future, Learning, Technology · 2,008 views

A couple of weeks I posted about a video called “Did You Know“, the video has done the rounds on blogs but few people (that I have seen) been able to point out the source.
Today via SoulSoup I found the source of the video, the original presentation and the source documents for the statistics.
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The 9 year old and the future

March 26th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Environment, Future, Learning, Recruitment · 1,992 views

Over the weekend our 9 year old expressed an interesting in getting Google Reader setup on his PC as he wanted to read stuff like Dad. This got me thinking again about what he and his generation will expect in a technology sense from their employers when he enters the workforce in 10-12 years.
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