I noticed an interesting article on Australian IT about Telstra and their new propaganda activities, nowwheretalking. offers a raft of Telstra information, including statistics, speeches by executives, blogs from Telstra staff and feature articles supporting the company’s position on regulation of the telecommunications industry. (Emphasis mine) They have gone and created 11 employee written blogs.Continue reading “Corporate blogging in Australia”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Best Recruiting Blog Nominations
Well after missing out on Australia’s best blog 😉 and questioning what a blog is in the first round of nominations on the Best Recruiting Blogs I now find myself nominated in the Best Recruiting Blogs in the category of Best HR Blog, thanks to Oliver Davouot. So I guess I can show the tabsI’veContinue reading “Best Recruiting Blog Nominations”
links for 2005-12-07
PPT Slide A presentation by Seth Godin from July 2000 on Viral Marketing, still very relevant today (tags: presentation marketing)
Bridge Girl triumphs in blog competition
Bugger I guess I am not $10,000 richer, Bridge Girl triumphs. The results of Australia’s best blog, run by ISP SmartyHost, were released yesterday. The “blogs were judged on content, creativity, uniqueness, and frequency and currency of postings. Based on these criteria, Bridge girl traveling diary received the highest combined score from the panel”, hmmContinue reading “Bridge Girl triumphs in blog competition”
TopJobSites revised listings
(Via On Rec) TopJobSites have released their November update to the job board rankings. The month of November saw a deduction in traffic going to job boards. The OnRec article states that :- 59.7% percent of job sites are showing a ranking decrease and 40.3% of job sites had a ranking increase. The TopJobSites.com RankingContinue reading “TopJobSites revised listings”
links for 2005-12-06
Edit in Place with JavaScript and CSS A very cool use of XHTML, Javascript and CSS to create what could be the new web interface. (tags: ajax HTML Javascript web2.0 XHTML) Garr Reynolds Official Site A fantastic resource on presentations, brand, and communications (tags: communication brand presentation marketing)
Blackhat SEO really sucks!
Well I guess I am about the be hit with a whole heap of splogs! Blackhat SEO has just listed hrblogs.org as a place to get a free subdomain they recommend on the site “Pick a subdomain with a keyword and start posting your links, simple as that and free.” Geez these types of peopleContinue reading “Blackhat SEO really sucks!”
links for 2005-12-05
business2blog: Google Calendar Is Google creating an online calendar, I guess time will tell! This would be very cool (tags: google calendar web2.0) Writely – The Web Word Processor On the PIM/Office product in the sky theme here is an online word processor with wiki like collaboration features. Also allows Word and Open office documentContinue reading “links for 2005-12-05”
Honeywell is blogging
It seems that the Honeywell Career’s page now has employee blogs, currently they have 3 peadership development program participants blogging on the site. A great step forward, just one thing no RSS feed or at least not one I could find. (Thanks to Work-related Blogs and News and Viral Voices.) Update:- I found the feeds,Continue reading “Honeywell is blogging”
Bad, oh sorry Bank grooming
Boy there is a bit of a stir down here over one of our largest banks (Commonwealth Bank) issuing a grooming guide to employees. News reports here, here, and here. In summary it recommends:- For women FLESH-coloured, smooth finish t-shirt bras will give you the best, most discreet look. CONSIDER having unruly brows regularly waxedContinue reading “Bad, oh sorry Bank grooming”
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