IBM’s call to arms now means that they will have up to 300,000 bloggers working fror them, in the form of employees. But what will be the price? Compliance with the IBM Blogging Guidelines. Is it really that bad? No of course not, in fact at a high level it is pretty good. Here theContinue reading “Blogging Guidelines”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Social networking actually working
Mark Jones (the IT Editor, I think, for the Australian Financial Review) had an article in the weekend edition about social networking tools actually working and turning contacts into business and hard earned cash.
Where is home?
My wife spent the weekend in Sydney attending a 2 day prac for her Physiology subject at Uni and I stayed at home and had 2 full days of dad and son time. While Jayne learnt we played soccer, went to the school working bee, had pizza for dinner, played the PS2 and generally justContinue reading “Where is home?”
Turnover and your brand
Hugh Macleod’s post from last week, on the porous membrane, is popping up everywhere! I showed the picture to my wife (who is studying biology and psychology together), who immediate reaction was it looked like cells with the different chemicals moving in and out to generate an action potential. Even in this light it almostContinue reading “Turnover and your brand”
BlogTalk Downunder
Off to BlogTalk down under this week, back up to Sydney on Thursday based on the papers it looks like an interesting time. If you are going look forward to seeing you there.
Wiki Spam
This afternoon I went to ResumeWiki to look at posting my Resume and I found the main page had been trashed. I feel bad for the people who have to run the site and put up with this sort of activity.
Are you a Digerati?
Harold Jarche pointed me Seth Godin’s item on the New Digital Divide (did we close the last one?) and how to spot which side you stand on. I want the throw out a challenge to all HR/Learning/Knowledge Management/Education professionals who have a blog and are Digerati to help one person every day understand. Not thatContinue reading “Are you a Digerati?”
No more RSS to read
I managed to get over a major hurdle today, caught up on all of my RSS feeds, as of 12:29pm AEST I have no more feeds to read. Update: 1 hour later and there are 43 posts in my reader.
Background checking service
From blog*on*nymity I found an interview with ZabaSearch’s President & General Counsel Robert Zakari and Chairman Nicholas Matzorkis. ZabaSearch is yet another personal search/background checking service to entry the now very crowded market. The interview is very interesting, highlighting flaws in the system and process and should scare the living daylights out of anyone inContinue reading “Background checking service”
Migrated old posts
Tonight I migrated all of my old posts to my new site. Over the next few days I will try and classify the posts and might even look at the comments from Haloscan. However the old site will remain.
Michael Specht 