One of the most amazing aspects of blogging is the online connections that can be formed. These networks would most likely never be formed offline. Take for example this post from Afshin Dabiri who writes about HR from Iran. I tried to comment to say thanks for the link as Ahshin has done on myContinue reading “Multinational networks”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Accelerating Change 2005
I have been following many of the posts from Accelerating Change 2005 over the last couple of days. Some of the places I have been following along are:- Scott Lemon Future Salon Technorati tag=AC2005 I can only hope that IT Conversations has the audio available in the coming weeks so I can listen along asContinue reading “Accelerating Change 2005”
A $5,000 bounty, but does it work?
Seth Godin is looking for a chief engineer and is offerig a $5,000.00 Bounty (aka referral bonus) to anyone who find them for him to be paid 6 months after hire. This is interesting because again it shows the usage of blogs for recruitment. Writing a professional based blog, not a corporate blog, develops aContinue reading “A $5,000 bounty, but does it work?”
A free blogging tool for HR professionals
Over the last few months I have been exchanging emails with James Farmer over several of his different projects all of which get me fired up. One such project which I have borrowed the idea from is edublogs to create hrblogs.org a free blog tool for HR professionals! Over the last few weeks I haveContinue reading “A free blogging tool for HR professionals”
Video conferencing
OnRec has a story on the mobile phone provider 3 is using videos as part of the recruitment process in the UK. What 3 is doing is apply an automatic filter on candidates before even looking at them, if you don’t already have a 3 phone then they don’t want to hire you. A greatContinue reading “Video conferencing”
links for 2005-09-09
» Conclusions from tracking ads The Blog Herald: more blog news more often Duncan from the Blog Herald provides some interesting insight into the performance of ads (tags: advertising blog)
links for 2005-09-08
Slacker Manager: Pocketmod A great way to create a hipster PDA from a single sheet of paper. (tags: productivity GTD)
links for 2005-09-07
Memorable Quotes from The Incredibles (2004) For those of us who need quotes in our work, try the Incredibles, like “No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. Sometimes I just want it to stay saved! “ (tags: Quotes) Australian IT – The downside ofContinue reading “links for 2005-09-07”
The keys to your data
It has been a while since I tapped out a post on security and privacy but today I read several posts that got me inspired again. Bruce Schneier (thanks for Kim Cameron for the pointer) picked up on the two sets of stolen keys for the Sydney train system that allowed the thieves access toContinue reading “The keys to your data”
More on GoDaddy
Well after a week of going around the table I have cancelled the GoDaddy service. I guess it was just not for me. I ended up having to use a command line interface for FTP as the 3 different FTP clients kept dropping connections and then immediately trying to reconnect. When they tried to reconnectContinue reading “More on GoDaddy”
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