Future – Page 4 – Michael Specht

The 9 year old and the future

Over the weekend our 9 year old expressed an interesting in getting Google Reader setup on his PC as he wanted to read stuff like Dad. This got me thinking again about what he and his generation will expect in a technology sense from their employers when he enters the workforce in 10-12 years. HisContinue reading “The 9 year old and the future”

The growth of our planet and it’s impact

Just watched an eye opening video called “Did you Know“, thanks to Des Paroz for the link. Not sure who put it together, what it is for or even if all the statistics are right but worth a watch even so. I suspect the information is fairly accurate and most would be accepted as commonContinue reading “The growth of our planet and it’s impact”

The environment

A few connected thoughts. The environment, climate change, and global warming are the talking point of every politician and news organisation at the moment. I get the feeling that there has been a “tipping point” reached and we might actually be making some progress here. Not sure what the trigger event was, maybe Al Gore’sContinue reading “The environment”

Microformats a trend to watch

Over the last year or so there has been a number of very clever people have been working on a concept called Microformats. A couple of days ago Technorati released a Microformats Search engine, while not the first it certainly is the first open mainsteam search engine launched for microformats by an organisation. The launchContinue reading “Microformats a trend to watch”

More on HR 2.0 or is it 3.0?

(Yes I know I am flogging a dead horse.) Systematic Viewpoints has provided his opinion/views/position on HR, SOA and Web 2.0, within which he has questioned how to use RSS for an integrated worklist and poses several questions. All very important and shows a snippet of the issues/concerns that need to be resolved, I haveContinue reading “More on HR 2.0 or is it 3.0?”

Wiring the web and organisations

Following the recent posts on RSS, Web 2.0 and the impact on HR vendors I was listening to the Gillmor Gang talk with Ray Ozzie CTO of Microsoft on the Live Clipboard and it got me thinking.

Live Clipboard allows you to copy and paste structured data to and from a web site or your PC. If you are like me your immediate reaction is huh? But after thinking it through for a few minutes I started to understand what he was getting at.

When will HR catch onto the wave?

A few days ago (16 to be exact) Thomas Otter (a solution architect at SAP) posted on Enterprise RSS, web 2.0 and HR, he also skimmed the social web and it’s potential in the enterprise space. It is fantastic that these concepts are being picked up by more and more people. However I kind ofContinue reading “When will HR catch onto the wave?”

Listings from the edge

Over the last month or so I have been watching with great interest the growing buzz over Edegio. Last week they had their first every public demo at an SDForum online classifieds event in the Google offices. So what is Edgeio? To quote from their first blog post:-

Edgeio is all about edge publishing. It is our belief that services that try to restrict how users create and consume information cannot ultimately be successful. Users own their data, and services exist not to silo that data, but rather to add value to it. That is what Edgeio is setting out to do.

We will be focusing on classified listings of any type to start.

While a bit abstract the terms “classified listing” has had my attention.

Corporate communication

While internal communications does not always sit within the realms of HR, how it is perceived by your employees is critical to their engagement. Personally internal communications sits within the Employee Relations area, but I know not everyone agrees. Watson Wyatt recently released a Communication ROI Study which focuses directly on internal communication with employeesContinue reading “Corporate communication”