There is a new web site from the AWU to campaign against the Howard government’s proposed workplace law changes. (Via Blogging and podcasting in Australia) I am interested to see the unoin movement moving their campaign’s online, I have been following the development of LaborNet and WorkersOnline with interest. I am also interested about theContinue reading “Changes to Australian workplace laws”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Jobster wins over Heather
After many weeks of courting it seems that the guys at Jobster have won over Heather Hamilton with their job referral service. It will be very interesting to see the results and if Heather finds the service really useful and not just a fad. I guess Dave will be happy.
Social reputation and authority
Happened to be browsing Feedburner today and found an interesting post in their blog about a new API. The Feed Awareness API looks very interesting and seems to already have support from some of the feed reader software. The best way to describe it is to quote the Feedburner site. Feed Awareness describes the extentContinue reading “Social reputation and authority”
links for 2005-06-16
CareerJournal | Consulting — Salary Data and Hiring Trends Article about niche job boards from WSJ (tags: recruitment verticalsearch) George’s Employment Blawg: Vertical Job Search Engines: The Latest Approach to Internet Recruitment: labor/employment law/HR from St. Louis management employment lawyer, HR professor/consultant From George’s Employment Blawg: Vertical Job Search Engines (tags: recruitment verticalsearch) Working Smart:Continue reading “links for 2005-06-16”
What is a network?
Jen from Jen on Friday’s brings up an interesting question, what is a network and when do you know if you belong to one? Her comments indicate that the network is only there when you know you belong to one. If someone reads your RSS feed does that mean they are in a network withContinue reading “What is a network?”
The future of recruiting
I have mentioned that before, the future of job/applicant search will be in Google, something I know Joel Cheesman agrees with. Anyway it seems that this future is quickly becoming a reality, with rumours that Google to provide listings search. Joel does a good job of highlighting the relevant parts. While the item in RedContinue reading “The future of recruiting”
Social bookmark searching
Scoble points to a new social bookmark search and exploration engine called Gataga. There has been lots of talk in the last week about Technorati being a third party aggregator of content when it comes to tags. Gataga seems to be doing just the same thing just a little differently, the interface and results areContinue reading “Social bookmark searching”
Multiple posts and del.icio.us
Sorry for the multiple link posts, just me trying to get my daily del.icio.us links posting. As with many people I come across lots of great links and so I am beginning to play with either publishing a daily listing here or building my very own linkblog. If I post a daily listing here IContinue reading “Multiple posts and del.icio.us”
links for 2005-06-15
Recruiting.com: Blogs: Two Main Types Summary of the different type of blogs based on Rebecca Blood’s original essay (tags: Blogs) rebecca blood :: weblogs: a history and perspective (tags: Blogs History) Great Site Ranking in Google The Secrets Out An interesting item on how Google’s new search patent operates, wonder what it has in storeContinue reading “links for 2005-06-15”
links for 2005-06-15
Recruiting.com: Blogs: Two Main Types Summary of the different type of blogs based on Rebecca Blood’s original essay (tags: Blogs) rebecca blood :: weblogs: a history and perspective (tags: Blogs History) Great Site Ranking in Google The Secrets Out An interesting item on how Google’s new search patent operates, wonder what it has in storeContinue reading “links for 2005-06-15”
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