Michael Specht

Last week I did a short podcast with Nick McCormick, author of Lead Well and Prosper, looking at tips for managing social media in the workplace.
We spoke about implementing guidelines/policies within the workplace along with some of the potential issues and how to manage them.  However given the short format of the podcast, it is only 8 [...]

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Well do they?
(You do know what Dunbar’s number is right?)
This question was posed by Manu Prasad over in India, thanks to Gautam Gosh for pointing it out.
Manu ponders that:
if there was a Dunbar number for brands, dictated by the number of people the brand can connect with- internally as well as externally? There are [...]

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I got distracted today so I started digging through my old blog posts to have a look at some of the subjects I have covered in the last 5 years.
Initially I was very much focused on blogs as a method of solving all of the world’s issues. Mainly because that was the main form of [...]

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We are coming to the end of the early bird discount period for the joint event between Inspecht and ATC Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution. while the early bird discount is good, register 2 or more delegates and you get an even better deal.
So why attend?

Listen to Australian case studies from Ernst & Young and [...]

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Something I get asked a lot is “How does social media impact the HR department?”
There are lots of ways, including areas that crosses into the recruiting; attraction, branding, onboarding and closing the deal.
Do your offer letters engage future employees like this?
All kidding aside, any company that can give this much attention to detail just in [...]

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