Prolific Australian blogger and entrepreneur Ben Barren posted about Facebook enterprise, discussing Verizon’s recent move to shutdown their corporate social network in favour of it’s Facedbook Fan page. Now I agree with Ben a Fan page is NOT a social network, but as he said it could be a great place to start your strategy.Continue reading “Facebook the new enterprise tool?”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Glasshouses allow you to see inside
Today I saw two posts float past on the Friendfeed feed in Twhirl about a new startup Glassdoor that has recently launched so I figured I needed to take a look. The first post was from my newest tech news location The Inquisitr, which provided a good basic “tech like” overview of the service. GlassdoorContinue reading “Glasshouses allow you to see inside”
Using Facebook to Learn
Just a quick post as my laptop battery is about to die:-). Last week I noticed an interesting post over at The Inquisitr “Udutu Launches LMS Application For Facebook“, very interesting an actual revenue generating application for Facebook! Their press release can be read here. While the Facebook application is still in Beta it isContinue reading “Using Facebook to Learn”
Creating corporate mash potatoes
One of the attributes of Web 2.0 that has had such a profound effect is that of openness. Openness in all forms, communication, plans and technology. The technology openness, via RSS, REST, XML, and APIs has allowed both professional and hobby developers to create new applications based on different data, sites and services. This resultContinue reading “Creating corporate mash potatoes”
CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey is on!
Now in its 11th year the CedarCrestone HR Systems survey is on again. Over the years the survey has highlighted early trends and provided consultants, vendors and buyers insight into what is happening in the marketplace. The survey results will be released at the HR Technology conference in October. Best of all, if it isContinue reading “CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey is on!”
Enterprise 2.0 & HCM vendors
There have been several posts recently about Web 2.0 and Human Capital Management (HCM) vendors saying it is more than a fancy user interface (UI), which seems to be all HCM vendors are promoting at the moment. On that front I could not agree more, but I would take things to a deeper level. WebContinue reading “Enterprise 2.0 & HCM vendors”
Losing your job
More and more people are starting to talk not about if, but when, people will start losing their jobs due to the down turn in the economies. Certainly more so in the US but I am seeing signs in other western countries as well, including Australia. Over the last few months I have written twiceContinue reading “Losing your job”
Attraction & retention of staff
Two big areas of focus within HR departments is the attraction of good talent and then the retention of that talent. Some are now saying these function should be separated but that is a topic for another post. Global HR consulting firm Mercer is running an online survey designed to collect information on what HRContinue reading “Attraction & retention of staff”
Business update
Over the last couple of days I have been busy trying to get my head around all the things that need to be completed to set up a business, basically LOTS. Some of this process I will put into blog posts over the next couple of weeks, here are the initial items that have beenContinue reading “Business update”
Changes are coming
This will be a quick post. I am no long employed at Nortel, long story which I won’t cover here. But the change is going to allow me to do something I have wanted to try for the last 7 years. Setup my own business. What will the business be? While the finer details areContinue reading “Changes are coming”
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