I have been meaning to write this post for a while, about 4 months, and today Penelope Trunk provided the platform. Penelope wrote about how to be a good manager, a great post but in my mind it can be summed up in one sentence. So the first rule, and probably the only rule ofContinue reading “Employee engagement”
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Australian web traffic statistics
Yesterday I received my copy of the May 2008 Hitwise Newsletter which tends to cover lots of general high level internet traffic trends in Australia. (Over the last few months I have been ignoring them, they are probably archived somewhere in GMail if I went to find them.) This month I decided to read it.Continue reading “Australian web traffic statistics”
New job service for casual workers
Today I was listening to the 2WebCrew where Cameron Reilly mentioned a new Australian startup PloyMe. PloyMe is a job board with a difference. It is aimed at casual workers where job seekers once registered only apply for shifts via SMS. Shifts are sent to a job seekers phone and the first to reply “wins”Continue reading “New job service for casual workers”
New model for management
Couple of related posts appeared in my feed reader today. First was from Mark Pesce who wrote about the fact that education provided in schools currently does not reflect modern communication cultures. When a kid goes to school they have to disconnect from the “hyperconnected” world. What this means, in a practical sense, is thatContinue reading “New model for management”
Talent Management Marketplace changes
Last week we saw the announcement that Taleo will acquire Vurv, essentially number 1 taking number 2 in the Talent Management marketplace. This is both good and bad news for the other players in the market. Bad because the combined entity will certainly be a major player, good in that both companies will have toContinue reading “Talent Management Marketplace changes”
Corporations in virtual worlds
There has been a fair amount written over the last couple years of corporation running public presentations and employee communication sessions in virtual world such as SecondLife. Some of the largest users have been IBM, Sun Microsystems and Cisco, however most fo this work seems to have been public type presentations. A couple of weeksContinue reading “Corporations in virtual worlds”
Innovating to Reboot
Over last several months I have gone through several changes in my life which has resulted in me reviewing many things. I have been struggling with how to conduct this process, but I figured it is a bit like a reboot but I can’t really turn myself off and on again like a computer nowContinue reading “Innovating to Reboot”
Hiring 2.0 is catching on
One of the problems of being immersed within an industry is you can quite often see things, the talk/blog about them a long time before real business actually takes these things on board. Yesterday Stephen Collins shot me a note with a link to a post by Shel Israel on the Red Couch about HiringContinue reading “Hiring 2.0 is catching on”
8 random facts about me
I have been watching this meme float around the Internet for a few weeks or is it months, well not to worry, anyways a couple of days ago it hit me when Alison Young tagged me. So the background/rules:- Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to writeContinue reading “8 random facts about me”
Hiring failures
This morning I wasted invested in reviewing a great site providing advice candidates. The advice. what NOT to do within the hiring process. The site Not Hired. To quote their site:- We are a group of HR monkeys and hiring managers who have worked with some of the largest search engines, vertical portals, and social-networkingContinue reading “Hiring failures”
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