Michael Specht

links for 2005-10-11

Oscar Trimboli argues technology can reduce business costs and improve employees’ quality of life. – On Line Opinion – 11/10/2005 Can technology help your work life balance? (tags: WorkLife technologies collaboration)

Microsoft to control your workflow

At the recent Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft announced a new workflow engine, Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), that is integrated into Windows, Office, Outlook, Sharepoint etc. An interesting move. The workflow engine provides a process layer to Microsoft applications that has been lacking up until now. Developers will no longer need 3rd party workflow environmentsContinue reading “Microsoft to control your workflow”

links for 2005-10-10

Internet job ad growth continues. 10/10/2005. ABC News Online Number of internet job ads in Australia now double 1998 numbers (tags: recruitment online jobs) business2blog: Google Reader Google launches an RSS reader, nice an fast due to the AJAX environment (tags: RSS google) Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal AOL Buys Weblogs Inc forContinue reading “links for 2005-10-10”

Generations in the workforce

Rereading an article on the Entitlement Generation (Via BNET & ContingentWorkforce) got me thinking this morning about our ageing workforce and what can be done about it. The ageing workforce is a huge issue that is getting lots and lots of press at the moment, but what can the average HR professional do to resolveContinue reading “Generations in the workforce”

MIA

10 days and not a single post, well until now! I have been a bit busy. Last week I spent the whole week on the road for work with 9 flights, 10 presentations, 7 cities across about 6000km, in a 5 day period. Oh and I got sick on Wednesday half way through, you knowContinue reading “MIA”

The last Saturday in September

Let’s just say the Sydney Swans rule! After 72 years they have another flag,58 vs 54 against the West Coast Eagles. Oh, if you are not from Australia you can just ignore this post. 🙂

Following Oracle World

I have been following Oracle World via systematic viewpoints one of the new blogs at hrblogs.org, a great blow by blow account of one persons experiences at Oracle World.

Blogging makes the world go around (at least in part)

Today Jason Davis posts about how companies can track what is said about them online through tools like Google Blog Search, IceRocket and Technorati. Jason provides a recent example from last week where ERExchange modified their blogging tool based on feedback. While I agree completely there is a lot of other things you can do.Continue reading “Blogging makes the world go around (at least in part)”