Michael Specht

A blog from Australia looking at technology, management, Human Resources (HR) and recruitment.

Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

On the Move

March 12th, 2013 · 2 Comments · HRIS, Personal, Technology · 1,965 views

A few months ago I started assessing what I would be doing come the end of March after this very long project was over. I blogged a few times about the process of trying to decide where I was going and what I was doing, I even applied for a few jobs. Well it is [...]

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Assessing cloud for HR Technology

February 22nd, 2013 · No Comments · HRIS, Technology · 2,632 views

I was driving home today listening to The Cloud Computing podcast where Chris Dailey discussed an article entitled Scrap you code. Start from scratch for cloud which was suggesting that smaller companies do not need to invest on-premise computing offerings instead they can go straight to the cloud for everything. The premise of this, going [...]

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Cloud Computing and HR

January 23rd, 2013 · No Comments · HR Management, HRIS, Technology · 2,522 views

Yes another trend post, there might be a few more as I get my head across all that has happened in the last year or so. Cloud Computing has been gaining momentum over the last few years, in HR it is getting some significant airtime and how could it not with the success of cloud [...]

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The glass is full with Google Glass

January 20th, 2013 · No Comments · Future, HR Management, Management, Technology · 1,821 views

One of the coolest inventions of 2012 is Google Glass, a wearable computer, running Android, that looks like a set of regular glasses that includes a video camera and augmented reality head-up display unit. Wearers of the glasses interact with them using natural language input while connected to the Internet. The best way to describe [...]

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MySpace is Back and Different

January 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Social Networks, Technology · 1,672 views

Yes you read that right. MySpace is back, new, improved and very different. Mashable have a very good round up of the new MySpace service with the opening paragraph summing up how I felt after using the service for the first hour: The new MySpace is pretty. It incorporates many of the trends in modern [...]

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