I have been thinking once again about how much the user experience impacts the take up of broad based workforce/people applications. I wrote earlier about calloborative applications needing to be low friction, I feel that this must translate to a good user experience. None of this is new, so why the post. I have noticedContinue reading “The user experience”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
100th Post
According to Blogger this is my 100th post!
Dispelling the myths of global teams
Ross Mayfield has a good summary on the productivity of far flung teams. He pointed me to an article (and another) from Fast Company, reading it just made me think of my time at Nortel Networks, the last team I had there was of 20 people spread over 8-10 countries across more timezones than IContinue reading “Dispelling the myths of global teams”
Forward thinking recruitment ideas
Johanna Rothman pointed me to this nice item on turning your recruitment program into viral marketing. Another interesting idea I have come across in the last weeks is using Google/Yahoo/any search engine to find applicants. I have been thinking further about this and the potential impact on applicant tracking systems. Why should I have toContinue reading “Forward thinking recruitment ideas”
Fear, fear and more fear
Interesting item on ComputerWorld about how all bloggers could end up at the wrong end of the law. It covers some really good points and we all should take note. Thanks for the find Steve.
Free Corporate Blogging Primer
Corporate Blogging has developed a free intro guide to setting up and running a blog within your company. Some good intro items so if you are interested take a look.
Employee engagement and technology
I have been thinking about employee engagement and the different aspects of business that either increase or decrease engagement and if technology solutions can have any impact on this. I see engagement covering 4 areas motivation, advocacy, commitment and satisfaction. If an employee has a high level of these four areas then they are moreContinue reading “Employee engagement and technology”
Everyday RSS feeds
The other day I was wondering who has the top spot on Google for my name. So I did a Google for “Specht” the first site that pop’s up is Juergen Specht – Photographs (a warning some of his photos may offend). Jurgen is a german photographer who is living in Japan, nothing too differentContinue reading “Everyday RSS feeds”
Last few days
Been very buys over the last few days. On Thursday we had an all day planning meeting, which meant that Friday was catch up day! The weekend has been interesting on Saturday I spent 1.5 hrs getting new reading glasses (I broke my current glasses on Wednesday) and then the afternoon at the school workingContinue reading “Last few days”
Sydney Morning Herald has RSS
Ok, I might have missed this one when it came out, so sorry if you all know about this. However I have just found out that the SMH has RSS feeds. This is so cool as it shows we do not live in a complete backwater. Now I will link them into Jager which IContinue reading “Sydney Morning Herald has RSS”
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