Rant ahead, leave if offended. First let me say I ❤ Twitter, and would pay for the service assuming below is fixed. Twitter must be the most unreliable web service ever, there I said it! I help organise the Melbourne Twitter meet ups so normally I am very biased but reliability is something Twitter doesContinue reading “Twitter – Something is technically wrong.”
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Employee engagement
Found a great video (for some reason I can’t embed it in my blog) via Employee Engagement: Results That Matter put together by McDaniel Partners detailing some very interesting insights and statistics around employee engagement, well worth the 4 minute watch. (Hat tip: HR 101).
Top companies to work for
Just a quick follow up post, on my higher ESAT = profitable companies post last week. The 2008 Fortune Top 100 Places to Work for in America has been released, and the winners are:- 1. Google 2. Quicken Loans 3. Wegmans Food Markets 4. Edward Jones 5. Genentech 6. Cisco Systems 7. Starbucks 8. QualcommContinue reading “Top companies to work for”
When your social graph breaks
There is a lot of talk these days about social graphs, a newish term used to describe our online social relationships across the myriad of web sites these days. If you are unsure what a social graph is read this description from Jeremiah Owyang. Another common discussion at the moment is the cross over ofContinue reading “When your social graph breaks”
Tips on being laid off
Amazing what happens during a week of stock market turmoil. I have seen a number of posts over the last few days about losing jobs, getting new jobs, companies going broke etc, etc. Today I read a post from one Robert Scoble, you might know him :-), who provides 17 tips for job seekers. ReadContinue reading “Tips on being laid off”
Satisfaction does equal higher returns
A fairly common statement heard these days in organisations is “high employee satisfaction translates to higher earnings”. Gautam Gosh pointed me to a recent paper by Alex Edmans, a Finance Professor at Wharton which compares; stock returns of companies with high employee satisfaction and compares them to various benchmarks — the broader market, peer firmsContinue reading “Satisfaction does equal higher returns”
Quiting your job?
Here is a bit of humour. When most people quit they hand in a resignation letter and tend to speak with their boss. Try this for an approach, link. Maybe not :-), It is not real, but it is real funny. If you did get a resignation letter like this you would certainly wonder aboutContinue reading “Quiting your job?”
Too busy for balance?
Work life balance seems to be one of those things everyone is always searching for but no one really has, ok except for Markus Frind. There are never enough hours in my day to do everything I want or need to. Today I read a great post from Kenny Moore, who got me hooked withContinue reading “Too busy for balance?”
Enterprise Search
For me one of the keys to being a productive knowledge worker is having access to the right information at the right time. This gets even more important as workers begin to self-publish, basically share their knowledge, behind the firewall using blogs, wikis, forums etc. A organisation needs to leverage this data to turn itContinue reading “Enterprise Search”
Useless facts about Twitter
I was reading Twitter Facts during lunch and thought, “how many of us are in Australia?” so I spent a few minutes to find out. I used 2 different tools, first TwitDir and then Twitter’s in built search. Just to note both search tools have limits. TwitDir only searches public timelines, while both search Usernames,Continue reading “Useless facts about Twitter”
Michael Specht 