Michael Specht

A blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and recruitment.

Poverty & depression

October 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Personal · 1,413 views

While today is Blue Day 2008, where the Australian tech & social media community are raising the awareness of depression & anxiety, we need to remember that we still live in a privileged part of the world. Most of us will never experience poverty in the real sense such as the way people in Darfur [...]

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Blue Day 2008

October 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Personal · 1,816 views

WARNING: A personal post.
Just over a month ago I came up with a wild idea to  do something to raise the awareness of depression and anxiety for Beyond Blue’s ADA month. How easy and simple things sound typing in the isolation of ones own computer!
But before I look forward at what has taken place, let’s [...]

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Blue Day 2008

October 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Personal · 2,205 views

We are two days away from Blue Day 2008! What is Blue Day?
Well it is a day to recognise depression and anxiety within society.
So what can you do to get involved?

Write a blog post about depression or anxiety, personal insights would be great
Produce a podcast about depression or anxiety, as with the blog posts personal [...]

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