It has been a few days since I last posted, sorry. Been a bit busy, mother in town, attending the Melbourne Arts Festival, blogging at work, sick and our cat died :-(. Anyway I am back again look for a few posts in the coming days.
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Tom Reynolds unemployed corporate blogger
Last Friday Tom Reynolds was let go from Telstra, which by itself is not a big issue, people get let go everyday. Where this little story gets a little interesting is Tom is a blogger, and not just a personal blogger but a corporate blogger on Telstra’s site called Now We Are Talking. Ok could beContinue reading “Tom Reynolds unemployed corporate blogger”
links for 2006-10-06
Dealing with the Digg Effect – A First Hand Story and Advice on Keeping Your Site Up An interesting post on how to deal with a major spike in traffic, such as ending up on the front page of Digg. (tags: WordPress web2.0 traffic Security PHP)
Shhh, want a job?
I got an email, come press release, this morning from Gayleen Robinson about a service for job seekers called QuietAgent, normally I read these types of messages and sit back and wait. Wait why, to see who else has got the email and read their view points. However today I felt given title of theContinue reading “Shhh, want a job?”
4th BJ Show published!
The 4th episode of BJs Show has just gone up. We are getting better at this podcasting thing, maybe by number 6 we will sound a but more professional! Anyway in this episode BJs gives a brief school holidays update a few quick movie reviews and gets into some tunes! So lie back and enjoy!
15 Outlook keyboard shortcuts
Below is my list of Top 15 Outlook keyboard shortcut (for Windows), specifically in the interests of supporting GTD. The list was inspired/based on TechRupublic’s recent post about keyboard shortcuts and David Allen’s eBook on Implementing GTD in Outlook. Alt-Tab – Switch between open applications, probably the most under used shortcut within Windows <Ctrl+Shift> k –Continue reading “15 Outlook keyboard shortcuts”
Words to avoid on your resume
Many job seekers have “resume in mouth” disease, that is they kill any chance of getting a job BEFORE they even get to the interview. Typos, poor formatting, not focusing on what the hiring manager is looking for, and using the wrong language. TechRepublic wrote an article a couple of years ago, and created aContinue reading “Words to avoid on your resume”
This is big!
eBay has decided to pull out of China! Not that it is eBay just that they have lost 60% market share to a local player and cannot compete within the new regulations of the Chinese financial services industry. Maybe we will now all wake up and see what China really is. A great big marketplaceContinue reading “This is big!”
The history of podcasting
Richard Giles has released the first part of his unpublished book on podcasting, including a very interesting history! Careful online observers would note that the history of podcasting has been a battle fought over many times. It is good to see a version that seems true at least from what I have read and heard. Continue reading “The history of podcasting”
Participate in human testing!
Just reading my Gmail today and noticed an interesting sponsored link above the message So I clicked! Tooheys has put together a really cool flash based advertising campaign to advertise their new Platinum beer. Search internships at College Recruiter.com.
Michael Specht 