Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Meet Australian Oracle Recruiter David Talamelli

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Recruitment · 611 views

When it comes to corporates’ who blog the typical names mentioned have been Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM. One company who has been quietly working away at their social media strategy is Oracle. Globally they have hundreds of blogs, a customer focused wiki, employees on Twitter and in general tackling social media on all fronts.
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Twitter SMS delivery

September 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Technology · 391 views

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a couple of small side projects, one of which is a services to get your Direct Messages and @Replies sent directly to your mobile phone via SMS, Tweet2SMS. Basically this is to replace the service that Twitter shutdown about 3 weeks ago for users [...]

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Good the bad and the ugly or is it a storm in a tea cup?

August 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Social Networks, Technology · 783 views

About 2 hours ago Twitter announced they were stopping their SMS notification service outside of the US, Canada, UK and India as it was costing them too much money. Now I completely understand a business needs to make money and the a free service cannot last forever but the way this change has been implemented [...]

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New job tools

August 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Recruitment · 609 views

A short post for you all on free recruitment tools:

WebDirections have released their very own job board, notch another one up for niche job boards.
You can easily send your job ads to Twitter via TwitHire, pity there does not seem to be an API. But they are having a new release in the next day [...]

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