Ajay Das from SDN posted a couple of days ago about Social computing and possible business models which has some great insight. He says :- Given that technology has become more prevalent (let us stick with SAP for the time) and more easily available, and, also that is has become easier to create applications, and,Continue reading “Social software and SAP”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Are you ahead of the curve?
Dr John has published his wrap up of 2005 on ERE, and Jason Davis has been a bit taken back by it. In a section “What and Who Needs Rethinking” John discusses “the individuals, firms, or concepts I have encountered this year that clearly need to “rethink” their approach to recruiting.” Blogging seems to haveContinue reading “Are you ahead of the curve?”
Judge Jim & co.
Jim Durbin provides us with details on the judging criteria in the Recruiting.com Best Blog Awards. I like his general statement, someone who is advancing the brand, where the brand is recruitment. He will be looking for someone who is making an impact on the size of the recruiting blogosphere and how they are usingContinue reading “Judge Jim & co.”
Outages
First TypePad and now del.icio.us it just shows the delicate nature of technology. You just hope it is never your system that goes down like this, but when they do you need to work your butts off to get them back up an running.
Seek and you shall find
On Friday OnRec published a press release from Seek about how Nielsen//NetRatings had understated Seek‘s traffic between April & October 2005 by about 8-10%. Given that Seek claims to draw 1,702,485 unique browsers and 1,733,488 in October and November 2005 respectively this is a fairly large understatement! This statement got me thinking, how is SeekContinue reading “Seek and you shall find”
Talentism and the best blogs
Jeff from Talentism provides us with run down of his best blogs based on the nominations in the Recruiting.com Best Blogs Awards for 2005. I have been thinking a lot about which blogs I read an why, Jeff’s post and the listings of nominations have got me thinking further on the topic. I have boiledContinue reading “Talentism and the best blogs”
Yes voting is really open
Yes voting is open for Recruiting.com’s Best Blog Awards. The prize, lots of coffee, a trip to Vegas, oh and the feeling of being recognised by your peers. I would certainly recommend anyone who has anything to do with HR, recruitment, management, learning or knowledge management to check out the blogs. Then vote for theContinue reading “Yes voting is really open”
Voting is open! (Soon)
UPDATED Yes it is true, Voting has opened opening next week in Recruiting.com 2005 Best Blog awards! Get voting, next week!. This is a fanstastic exercise from the guys at Recruiting.com, Jobster and how can we forget Joel for the idea! Only one thing, we can’t let Microsoft win all the awards, oh and I’mContinue reading “Voting is open! (Soon)”
Robert H. Stambaugh died
John Macy just emailed me to let me know that last week Robert (Bob) H. Stambaugh died last week aged 59. For those who did not know Bob he was a major influencing factor in HRIS thought leadership over the last 30 years writing many articles and presenting at dozens of conference. I had theContinue reading “Robert H. Stambaugh died”
links for 2005-12-08
JotSpot Tracker – Stop emailing spreadsheets Yet another productivity tool now online, JotSpot trackers allows Excel like functionality on the web. (tags: web2.0 ajax online software)
Michael Specht 