Michael Specht

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

Social networking and reputational risk in the workplace

March 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Branding, Digital Identity, HR Management, Privacy · 2,426 views

Over 6 months ago Deloitte released their 2009 report on ethics and the workplace this time focusing on impact social computing is having on reputation risk for organisations. The results are very interesting, and given the recent background checking and social media discussions, they also impact individuals and their online reputation.

Let’s review the result:

74% of employees said it’s easy [...]

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RecruitTech Presentation

September 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Management, Recruitment, Social Networks · 2,444 views

Today I gave a short presentation at RecruitTech in Canberra on Social Media in the workplace. The official bio was:
Many big organisations continue to block the use of social networking tools in the workplace, whilst others encourage their use.  But how much Facebook surfing and Twittering is too much?  This presentation weighs up the pros [...]

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More social media and workplace firings

April 19th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Branding, Digital Identity, HR Management, New Media, Social Networks · 2,506 views

It seems that social media is creating an environment where “firings will continue until moralw picks up”, or it just could be that Asher Moses knows he on to a good thing so his editors keep him writing about it…
So far in April Asher has written five different articles around social media sites and losing [...]

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