Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries from November 2004

More on hiring a blogger

November 30th, 2004 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Recruitment · 1,337 views

Jeremy has posted a good summary on his blog as to why a company would to set up a blog. While I agree with all of his points, this post could be just seen as advertising for his auction. However I hope it is not the case, as he does offer some very valid points [...]

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Businesses to fund training

November 30th, 2004 · No Comments · Learning · 1,028 views

I read an interesting article in the Financial Review this morning (unfortunately I cannot link to the online article as it requires paid registration) about how the government is looking to force companies to invest in staff training if they wish to tender for government contracts. This comes on the back of the Department of [...]

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Chatting to BlogosphereRadio

November 29th, 2004 · No Comments · Personal · 848 views

Just had a chat with Mack from BlogosphereRadio over Skype, the longest call (distance wise I’m in Sydney, Australia and he is in Edmonton, Canada) for either of us and it was crystal clear, I could now be a VOIP convert.
We chatted a bit about the blogger auctions (1 & 2) going on, watch this [...]

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Scobleizer gone wild!

November 29th, 2004 · No Comments · Blogging · 970 views

Did Scoble take some No Doz or something, he just bloged for 6 hours straight! Interestingly I found even his last post interesting, thats amazing after 6 hours and no sleep.
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Bloggers for hire

November 29th, 2004 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,084 views

Ok, I have slept and think I have a clearer perspective and Blog your way summed up many of my thoughts very nicely. But here are my 2 cents worth anyway.
Basically the trouble I see with hiring a freelance blogger is how do you judge the end result? Just having someone writting words for [...]

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Another blogger for hire

November 28th, 2004 · No Comments · Blogging · 911 views

Following Jeremy Wright, now Darren Barefoot is auctioning his services. The idea must be catching on.
Darren seems very qualified for write a blog, as he says he has 75,000 visitors a month, which lets just say is a few more than me :-).
I agree with Splatt it will be interesting to see the [...]

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Is the world broke?

November 28th, 2004 · No Comments · General · 926 views

After another very hot weekend in Sydney (38-40C or 100-104F) we got home tonight and decided (in a second on stupidity) to order Pizza Hut. Boy what a mistake.
Initially the order taker denied our voucher because she did not know about it, then my wife tried to call them back to complain. [...]

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Another aussie podcast

November 28th, 2004 · No Comments · New Media · 1,049 views

Seems like podcasting is taking off downunder, G’Day World by Cameron Reilly & Mick Stanic. Sounds very cool, look forward to the next one.
Found this from frankarr.
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Managing your identity

November 27th, 2004 · No Comments · Digital Identity · 931 views

Found Kim Cameron’s new blog today, an very interesting read, Kim works for Microsoft and their architect for identity. Kim is the architect of Active Directory and other identity activities, while fairly technical topic they have very significant impacts for HR systems.
In one post Kim talks about the first law of identity “The Owner Decides [...]

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Vote testing

November 25th, 2004 · No Comments · Technology · 1,077 views

I have just been reading Tantek’s Thoughts (via Scoble) where Tantek provides some feedback on Scoble’s Information Overload session at BloggerCon. Anyway I felt I might test out the voting that Tantek wrote about. So my choice for a vote is for Firefox.
The rest of Tantek’s item is very interesting and worth a read, and [...]

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