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'

The 9 year old and the future

March 26th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Environment, Future, Learning, Recruitment · 2,119 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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The growth of our planet and it’s impact

February 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Future, Learning, Recruitment · 1,807 views

Just watched an eye opening video called “Did you Know“, thanks to Des Paroz for the link.  Not sure who put it together, what it is for or even if all the statistics are right but worth a watch even so.  I suspect the information is fairly accurate and most would be accepted as common [...]

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Edublogs goes premuim

February 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Learning · 1,414 views

James Farmer seems to finally have his day job under control, why cause he is blogging again over at Incsub.  Today he announced Edublogs Premium.
What is it?  A full featured multi-user blogging service, very cool.
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What is a good presentation?

September 1st, 2006 · No Comments · Branding, Communication, Learning · 2,639 views

I subscribe to Presentation Zen to find the latest and greatest trends in presentations. Some of the presentations they reference are fantastic others I don’t really relate to but I still stay subscribed. So today when I saw a couple of people referring to the Top 10 Presentations I was interested.
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Using Second Life for training

August 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Learning, Technology · 1,741 views

I have been following Second Life for awhile now just watching what happens.  Personally I feel the potential for the environment is huge we just need to get over the gambling and sex that currently occupies a majority of Second Life.
This is changing, there has been several conference run in Second Life, Cory Doctorow has [...]

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