Michael Specht

The famous Web 2.0 Summit wrapped up late last week with lots and lots of product announcements and more news stories than I could ever hope to digest. (Not helped by the fact that I have been sick for about 4 days now.)
Anyway here are a few summary items:

If teens are confused by Twitter but [...]

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The use of social software tools inside the firewall is called Enterprise 2.0, a term coined by Professor Andrew McAfee in his 2006 article “Enterprise 2.0 The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration“. Within this article he talks about the building blocks of Enterprise 2.0, SLATES.

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This makes sense as they mirror the growth components that have made [...]

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I have been meaning to write an earth shattering post here for a while, but I guess that will have to wait a bit longer. In the meantime here are four quick thoughts to keep you going:

Honesty in a resume is important even when your brackground is not the most attractive, Drug Smugglers Resume.
Want to [...]

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Over the last week I have released a few new items on the Inspecht site.

Short introduction on how to use Google to find candidates
Quick overview of some key social media and Web 2.0 terms
Email marketing campaign tool

The first two probably make sense to most readers but the third might surprise a few of you.
Email marketing
While [...]

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If you are in Australia, and interested in learning about Web 2.0 then you should get yourself to Sydney on September 23 and attend the Web 2.0 University being run as a extra session at Web Direction South. The Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp session is being co-hosted by Jeff Kelly & Stephen Collins and [...]

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