Michael Specht

Sun 2 : HP 1

It is interesting to watch a public fight, it is even more interesting when it is between two well known companies. From Boing Boing: HP sends Sun’s President a nastygram for blogging

I got up this morning to pay some bills, however I noticed an email this morning from Jason from the Semiconductor Jobs blog. So now I am writing a blog entry, as my wife would say I have just followed a “shiny object”, she thinks all guys do it. It is very nice to getContinue reading “Moral, ethical or what?”

The stupid recruiter

Ok, there are many ways to determine the skills and fit of a candidate some good and some bad. Adam Barr refers to a very old post from Joel Spolsky on some bad recruiting tricks. Both are very interesting to read, even though Adam slams Joel, Joel does provide some interesting perspectives on things. OnContinue reading “The stupid recruiter”

More on blogging fear

Corporate blogging believes the lack of blogging is about knowledge not fear as per Scoble. This is probably true, however before we get everyone out there to blog we must have clear acceptable usage policies from within organisations. Otherwise more and more workers will get fired. Ok, after 9pm is not a good time toContinue reading “More on blogging fear”

Mainstream news on Google

CNET News.com has just found out about Google’s hiring practice. They might soon find out about how blogs are being used to attract people? Ok so I am cynical. Thanks to BostonWorks.

Stapler Testing?

Found an interesting item on stapler testing of all things, ok maybe that is an overstatement. However Mike Kelly provides a really interesting listing of tests he created for a stapler. You might ask why did he do this, well Johanna Rothman “made him do it”. These two posts provide great content for today. Firstly,Continue reading “Stapler Testing?”

People in Business photos

Here are a couple of photos from the exhibition, they are not very good sorry. Update:- Sorry for the double post, just learning about Flickr.

RIP Powerpoint ;-)

Chris Holland has pointed me to a very interesting tool for internet based presentations. This is very cool, light weight, and portable. Next stop, my phone!

Are you afraid to blog?

An interesting perspective on blogging from Michael Gartenberg of Juipter research. He talks about the differences in organisational culture and industry and how this impacts blogging. (thanks to Scoble again). However having spent the last day and half at the People in Business conference and seeing the response to the SurfControl session I am nowContinue reading “Are you afraid to blog?”

Ikea, Volvo and HR?

Today was day 1 of the People in Business conference, while I will not give you a complete run down of the first day I want to share a couple of things. The first key note was very good, I must say I was skeptical, based on reading the brochure. The topic was “Energy, trustContinue reading “Ikea, Volvo and HR?”