Today I had the pleasure of meeting with a couple of the Oracle CRM team to talk about Oracle’s new social applications in the CRM On Demand product. The meeting was setup Polly Johnson from Oracle’s PR agency Kinetics, Polly was referred to my by Gareth Llewellyn from Oracle a switched on PR guy. While my mainContinue reading “Oracle Social CRM”
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Slight service interruption
Over the last few days service on this site and several of my other sites has been less than perfect, downright poor for some of them. This has been due to several related factors. Firstly the performance of my previous hosting provider MD Webhosting and secondly the unavoidable service interruptions while moving hosting providers. IContinue reading “Slight service interruption”
Self Management & Inspecht Update
The last month to 6 weeks has been very busy, but I have to say I have not made a lot of progress in many different areas. Before we get to the challenges let me review the positive things from the last month. I started attending Jelly in Melbourne and have met some great folks.Continue reading “Self Management & Inspecht Update”
Poverty & depression
While today is Blue Day 2008, where the Australian tech & social media community are raising the awareness of depression & anxiety, we need to remember that we still live in a privileged part of the world. Most of us will never experience poverty in the real sense such as the way people in DarfurContinue reading “Poverty & depression”
Blue Day 2008
WARNING: A personal post. Just over a month ago I came up with a wild idea to do something to raise the awareness of depression and anxiety for Beyond Blue’s ADA month. How easy and simple things sound typing in the isolation of ones own computer! But before I look forward at what has takenContinue reading “Blue Day 2008”
Blue Day 2008
We are two days away from Blue Day 2008! What is Blue Day? Well it is a day to recognise depression and anxiety within society. So what can you do to get involved? Write a blog post about depression or anxiety, personal insights would be great Produce a podcast about depression or anxiety, as with theContinue reading “Blue Day 2008”
Startup Camp Melbourne wrap up
Last weekend was Startup Camp Melbourne, an action packed event I participated in full of drama and success. The idea of bringing unknown people together to learn about creating startups is a fantastic idea that we need more of in Australia. I know we have several incubators and a sort of venture capital industry but, weContinue reading “Startup Camp Melbourne wrap up”
Social media can drive employee engagement
When your employees know that your customers hate your company it can turn any work place into a toxic cesspool of dissatisfaction. Who wants to work for a company that is always seen as doing wrong and having to justify oneself? Telstra might be one of those companies. Now I have no research to sayContinue reading “Social media can drive employee engagement”
Startup Camp Melbourne
Today, Friday 3rd October, sees Startup Camp Melbourne kick off from 6pm running until about 6pm Sunday. During this time 20 or so would be entrepreneurs will spend almost every minute working to create several new business ideas. The basic agenda for the weekend will be: Friday 3rd October 6pm Arrival & networking 7pm DinnerContinue reading “Startup Camp Melbourne”
Is any social media better than none at all?
Over the last week there has been a bit of a change within the social media landscape here in Australia, out biggest, slowest telecommunication company, Telstra, decided to get into Twitter via their ISP Big Pond http://twitter.com/BigPondTeam. My personal view is thee way they implemented this is a complete failure and not the way anyContinue reading “Is any social media better than none at all?”
Michael Specht 