A rambling post of thoughts for you. For a few years there has been talk of the “five horsemen” of tech – Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. The opinion of having Microsoft included has varied over time the final number doesn’t matter, these five organisations are massive – in terms of impact, revenue, employeesContinue reading “The Five Horsemen and you”
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The glass is full with Google Glass
One of the coolest inventions of 2012 is Google Glass, a wearable computer, running Android, that looks like a set of regular glasses that includes a video camera and augmented reality head-up display unit. Wearers of the glasses interact with them using natural language input while connected to the Internet. The best way to describeContinue reading “The glass is full with Google Glass”
Best places to work as voted by you the employees
For the second year in a row Glassdoor has published their Best Places to Work listing based on votes by the employees of these organisations. Basically wisdom of crowds to determine the 50 best employers in the US. The terms of reference were: The Top 50 were selected from more than 37,000 companies reviewed byContinue reading “Best places to work as voted by you the employees”
What’s next with social recruiting
If you have been following this blog for a while you would know that I am always looking for the next thing. I have been doing the same thing with using social media in business. Social Recruiting has a lot of buzz at the moment. How do I know there is a buzz, well 200+ peopleContinue reading “What’s next with social recruiting”
Some unrelated thoughts
The famous Web 2.0 Summit wrapped up late last week with lots and lots of product announcements and more news stories than I could ever hope to digest. (Not helped by the fact that I have been sick for about 4 days now.) Anyway here are a few summary items: If teens are confused byContinue reading “Some unrelated thoughts”
Social media in the workplace
The use of social software tools inside the firewall is called Enterprise 2.0, a term coined by Professor Andrew McAfee in his 2006 article “Enterprise 2.0 The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration“. Within this article he talks about the building blocks of Enterprise 2.0, SLATES. Search Links Authoring Tags Extensions Signals This makes sense as theyContinue reading “Social media in the workplace”
Google Wave and the Enterprise
With a fair bit of fanfare on May 28th Google pre-released a brand new tool/suite/ concept/framework for collaboration called Google Wave. I am not going to cover all the technical details, you can see them over at http://wave.google.com. But you do need to understand that Google Wave is actually three things all in one package.Continue reading “Google Wave and the Enterprise”
ATC: Sue Polo Engineering and Operations Staffing Director, Google
Sue Polo from Google, Australian readers yes Google HQ, followed Dr Williamson with a fantastic look at not only Google as a corporation but also their staffing challenges. She provided us with so much information I did not get a chance to write many notes as she talked, but here are some of my topContinue reading “ATC: Sue Polo Engineering and Operations Staffing Director, Google”
Great places to work in Australia
The Great Place to Work Institute has launched their 2009 program partnering with BRW. They have over 20 years experience in measuring employee engagement from all over the globe, they define a great place to work as one where trust exists. At the heart of our definition of a great place to work – a placeContinue reading “Great places to work in Australia”
New content and products
Over the last week I have released a few new items on the Inspecht site. Short introduction on how to use Google to find candidates Quick overview of some key social media and Web 2.0 terms Email marketing campaign tool The first two probably make sense to most readers but the third might surprise aContinue reading “New content and products”
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