This is a test blog post from Writely the Web 2.0 word processor owned by Google. I have been playing with Google‘s new Spreadsheet and thought I should also look again at Writely. With Gmail , Google Calendar , Writely , and the new Google Spreadsheet Google are fast becoming a serious competitor to theContinue reading “Test Writely Post”
Monthly Archives: June 2006
links for 2006-06-09
Welcome to TalkShoe! Talk shows, Talkcasts, discussion groups, debates, conferences, talk-based Internet content A new VoIP multi party conference call tool used to host TalkCasts. (Hat tip Jorge at http://ausmusings.blogspot.com) (tags: VoIP podcast NewMedia)
375 and counting
Today I added the 375th site to community.hrblogs.org! What is it? Pink Apple an Australian site devoted to help you nurture both business and personal relationships. It has been classified under the “Career Development” section. A special mention needs to go to #374, Talking Point because they were 374.
Social Engineering
I found this very disturbing article from Techmemeorandum about using social engineering to compromise an organisations security defences, the troubling part about this example was how easily the defences were breached. As seen in this quote they had 75% success rate allowing them access to a vast number of systems in the target organisation. AfterContinue reading “Social Engineering”
links for 2006-06-08
Seth’s Blog: What do I find? Seth Godin provides some good advice for brand managers. Don’t just worry about where your brand appears in Google and Yahoo etc you need to also review all of the other places your brand could appear, like YouTube. (tags: brand marketing search Management) Recruiting Blog Trends – Recruiting NewsContinue reading “links for 2006-06-08”
Jobster buy’s another site
Jobster has been very busy in the last little while trying to take over the recruiting online space, buying up WorkZoo, and GoJobby. Today they announced that they acquired Recruiting.com! Jason and his merry band of writers are joining the Jobster mothership. Congratulations to them all. You can read the official version of events atContinue reading “Jobster buy’s another site”
links for 2006-06-06
Independent Online Edition > News Batwoman returns after a 30 year absence as a lesbian socialite in the comic 52. (tags: Comics Batwoman) Blackboard picture defining a fuckwad Found after listening to the latest Gilmore Gang, proof of how fuckwads are created. (tags: humour)
Inside out, back to front and open recruiting
Rob Merrill over at GoodRecruits has a taken several ideas that are brewing across the blogosphere and produced an interesting business idea. Jobster, but distributed… Rob feel we all need to get into Microformats, Microformat Search engines, social networks, XFN (or would RapLeaf be just as good?) mash them all together and create a distributedContinue reading “Inside out, back to front and open recruiting”
links for 2006-06-02
Laurel Papworth – Online Communities – Australia and Global: Managing staff as an online community An interesting post on how to use blogs, wikis and forums to help managing staff (tags: communication communities collaboration Blogs wikis)
Microformats a trend to watch
Over the last year or so there has been a number of very clever people have been working on a concept called Microformats. A couple of days ago Technorati released a Microformats Search engine, while not the first it certainly is the first open mainsteam search engine launched for microformats by an organisation. The launchContinue reading “Microformats a trend to watch”