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'

What is a good presentation?

September 1st, 2006 · No Comments · Branding, Communication, Learning · 2,708 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.
KnowHR have pulled [...]

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Using Second Life for training

August 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Learning, Technology · 1,770 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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Mobile flash cards

August 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Learning, Technology · 2,055 views

On my way to work this morning I was listening to Chris Pirillo talking to James Wen from Positive Motion, about their new tool called Mobile Prep a mobile phone flash card program.
Atf irst I was a bit skeptical about the product but listening to James and hearing his vision of how he wants to [...]

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How to manage gaming geeks, or any geek for that matter

June 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Learning, Personal · 1,436 views

Just finished listening to show number 51 from The Cranky Middle Manager Show where Wayne spends time chatting with Matt Manuel from EA who looks after the development of FIFA 2006.
A great show with some really interesting ideas covering on-boarding, peer mentoring, and team management. It seems that a number of the manager’s at [...]

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Learning like a 5 year old

March 24th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Learning, Recruitment · 1,932 views

A recent Wired Magazine article provides unique perspectives on learning and to a lesser degree recruitment.
The article talks about a senior manager at Yahoo who is a guild leader in World of Warcraft, a massive multi player online game. His position in World of Warcraft has provided him many of the necessary [...]

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