Michael Specht

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

Entries from January 2005

Phone found but still not working

January 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Personal · 1,075 views

I found my phone! Where was the phone? In a snack box that had been in the bag I carried onto the plane. While on the plane the phone must of fell into the box and the just put away on the top shelf in the pantry!
Called Three at 2:30pm Thursday, spoke to the call [...]

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Podcast for auction

January 26th, 2005 · No Comments · New Media · 1,664 views

The guys over at GDay World have been a couple of busy little marsupials over the last few weeks, with all sorts of stuff happening. Cameron is off to Demo@15 in Feburary to do several interviews, as such they have decided to auction sponsorship of their podcast during the event.
Not surprising given they just [...]

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Podcasting, knowledge management & learning

January 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Knowledge Management, Learning, Technology · 1,496 views

On a raining Sunday morning here in Sydney I found an post from Cameron Reilly where he mentions he has his first podcasting client. Great to see organisations looking at new technology as part of their employee comm’s toolkit, hopefully he will give us all an update as to how it progresses.
I have written a [...]

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Blogfolios?

January 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Learning, New Media · 1,499 views

I have written a couple of times in the past about ePortfolios and how I personally feel by leveraging blogs and wilki’s we could quite easily build a ePortfolio without the need of specialised tools.
A couple of days ago Brian Lamb posted about how he and a friend (well mostly a friend) have modified MT [...]

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What a week

January 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Personal · 1,268 views

Well today is my last day in my current job, I have 1 week off, move to Melbourne and then on Jan 31st I start at WMC.
This week started off in mixed fashion, we successfully found somewhere to live in Melbourne, after 5 hours of physically looking (about 20 online before we went). However [...]

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Enterprise wiki providers fighting for customers

January 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Wikis · 2,229 views

via Techdirt. While we now have two (at least) commercial Wiki software providers it seems they are fighting with each other over new customers. Personally I don’t see it as a bad sign, more an interesting one.
Wiki’s are a new concept and the selling of them within an organisation is going to [...]

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State of Human Captial Industry

January 19th, 2005 · No Comments · HR Management · 1,090 views

Found this on HRMarketing.com blog, while it is almost a year old I feel it does provide a great breakdown of the different areas within the HC industry.
Personally it is interesting to see the different areas as I have been trying to develop something similar to be the foundation of a systems view/inventory for my [...]

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What to do on your first day in a new job

January 18th, 2005 · No Comments · Personal, Recruitment · 1,055 views

Michael the Canadian Headhunter had a great post (from Fortune) on what to do on your first day in a new job, very relevant to me.
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Gmail Accounts

January 18th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 907 views

I have 6 Gmail accounts to give away on a first come first served basis, drop me an email (mspecht at gmail dot com) if you want one.
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Sims on a TV near you

January 18th, 2005 · No Comments · Personal · 868 views

Given humans in my family are slightly nuts about the Sims, I think this would sell in our house.
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