Michael Specht

Below are my notes for the talk I have given over the last week on social media in the workplace. I admit they do not flow as an essay as they supplemented my slides, hopefully you can derive my messages.
Social Media in the Workplace       
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For nearly 20 years geeks have been operating in [...]

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Just a quick comment. I have been reading some of the feedback to Telstra’s Social Media Policy on other blogs and news sites. One comment that keeps coming is that Telstra is essentailly applying old school thinking to a new world policy.
Well of course they are.
When you create policies they need to match the culture [...]

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Yesterday Telstra was the first major Australian corporation to publicly release it’s social media policy. Called guardrails to help employees navigate the world of social media the policy is defined around three concepts, the 3 R’s; Representing, Responsibility, and Respect.
After the last few weeks I think both employees, management and stakeholders at Telstra will be [...]

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There has been another little dust up over at Telstra, all due to a satirical Twitter account called Fake Stephen Conroy. (For international readers Stephen Conroy is the Federal Communications Minister.)
In summary Leslie Nassar Telstra employee had been running the account for a while providing hours of entertainment. A few days ago Leslie was outed [...]

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Last week Microsoft launched a new service/tool/technology called Microsoft Tag. In simple terms it allows you to take a photo of an image with your internet-enabled phone and the related content is displayed on your phone. Very similar technology to the QR Code. But implemented very differently.
The QR Code stores all of the data in [...]

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