From Scoble about Dan Mitchell who has a blog at http://www.teachnology.org covering teaching and technology, who received a cease and desist letter from an organisation that runs their site at http://www.teach-nology.com. Yet another great blog, into the RSS feed reader it goes. While Dan only posts about once a week, if you are into educationContinue reading “Teachnology a new term or an old one worth suing over”
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Flickr photos
Just loaded up a number of photos that I took yesterday at the Melbourne Grand Prix practice day. I have also been playing with the banner on the side of the blog, now my Flickr images appear in a random order, I will see how it goes.
Sending blog entries from my phone
My post yesterday from the Grand Prix practice round made it up, but with a typo in the title. I plan to leave it there. I am in the process of uploading several other pictures to Flickr.
My iPod earbuds are damaged
I am quite sad and a bit disappointed with my iPod earbuds. About two days ago while listening to Adam Curry’s DSC I started hearing static in the earbuds at certain bass level (I am not a audio expert so I might not be describing the problem correctly). Initially I thought it might have beenContinue reading “My iPod earbuds are damaged”
Project Manager does suicide PowerPoint presentation
Another item from Trevor Cook about a very sad case of death by PowerPoint. Ok once you have read the story my pun might be a bit on the tacky side, but am currently in a project management role and the story kind of stuck a cord and no I am not suicidal 🙂
A solution for labour shortages
Michael from the Canadian Headhunter points to an interesting perspective from Germany on the discussion of labour shortages. I suspect it will not pick up as a common approach.
Electronic Forms & a paperless office
Angus Logan pointed me to a new blog Electronic Forms from the developers of InfoView, a product that works with the Microsoft product InfoPath, I sort of referred to InfoPath on the weekend in my post on HR-XML and resumes. The InfoView product adds a new dimension to the picture and could provide the frameworkContinue reading “Electronic Forms & a paperless office”
More on the labour shortage
Business 2.0 blog has a good follow up on my earlier post on the different generations.
Are workplaces family-friendly?
Trevor Cook as found a great opinion on family friendly workplaces via Tim Watts of the Nous Group. I am concerned by the comments from the CEO Tim was talking to, as it seems was Tim and Trevor on how to manage the aging workforce. Gen Xs and Ys are very different to the currentContinue reading “Are workplaces family-friendly?”
Are you present?
Over the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about presence. By presence I am talk about your online presence and what that means to workforce solutions. I have posted about this before but now I am seeing the whole idea pop up in several different places. The traditional area is in instantContinue reading “Are you present?”
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