I just read a great post from over at The Engaging Brand on communications, specifically internal communications:- Communication is a vital ingredient of a successful business and yet how much time do we spend on honing our skills? How much time do we spend understanding how effective communication is? and Often the top down isContinue reading “A quick communications update”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
The ROI of a corporate blog
Over the last few years there has been lots of talk about how to measure the ROI of a corporate blog, I have written about it a fews times. At the end of the day ROI of a blog is hard to measure, unless you sell advertising which most corporate blogs do not. A weekContinue reading “The ROI of a corporate blog”
Edublogs goes premuim
James Farmer seems to finally have his day job under control, why cause he is blogging again over at Incsub. Today he announced Edublogs Premium. What is it? A full featured multi-user blogging service, very cool.
Superbowl ads, and social medai
I don’t get what is with the SuperBowl ads, maybe it is just because I am not in the US. Yes occasionally there are great ads, remember 1984, but most seem to be a huge waste of money for already established brands. At US$2.5mil + for 30 seconds there are better ways of getting theContinue reading “Superbowl ads, and social medai”
Australian Blogging Conference postponed
Just read an email from Peter Black from Queensland University of Technology that they have had to postpone the Australian Blogging conference that was to take place this year. Unfortunately due to a last minute and unexpected problem with sponsorship, QUT has decided to postpone the Australian Blogging Conference until later in the year. WeContinue reading “Australian Blogging Conference postponed”
Train issues in Melbourne
A couple of years ago, before our big move to Melbourne, I had to put up with the Sydney train system. I would spend 3 – 4 hours commuting in and out of work due to cancellations and delays. Eventually one person had enough and called for action, we all refused to pay for aContinue reading “Train issues in Melbourne”
Vista security issue
Well it looks like the first of the Vista security issues are starting to surface, now I just need to wait for SP1 before deployment. I need to also review the BBspot’s Vista upgrade decision process to make my final decision :-). Oh, and in other tech news Apple and Cisco decide the only onesContinue reading “Vista security issue”
Tech news flash – Vista is available, move on
For the next few days most of the tech news will be able Vista and its assocaited products, yawn. There has been so much press for Vista in the last few months I have had enough. Let’s just skip the first couple of months to get over the security updates, compatibility issues, hardware upgrades etcContinue reading “Tech news flash – Vista is available, move on”
Using Twittering for your job hunt
We have had a sacking being announced via Twitter, now job ads. Gian is looking for an accessibility expert for a bit of work so she advertised it via her circle of friends on Twitter:- “Gian: anyone in Melbourne available for two weeks accessibility work?” Twitter is just another network of contacts you can useContinue reading “Using Twittering for your job hunt”
Get your career off the ground!
I got an email today from Emily of CareerJet letting me know about their new vertical search engine for Australia. They have a few jobs listed 284,302 jobs in Australia, which seems a lot but probably not all of them. For example Seek has 134,450 jobs listed. The user interface is a little “old school”,Continue reading “Get your career off the ground!”
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