Michael Specht

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

Entries from February 2005

A Mac in a Lexus

February 28th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Technology · 1,016 views

Richard from the Gadget Lounge and The Gadget Show found this great item on a guy who installed a new Mini Mac in his Lexus.
Besides being very cool, it raises some interesting other uses of the Mini Mac, which is probably the vision Apple had for it in the first place. For example, my [...]

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Security flaw in PayMaxx software/service

February 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Digital Identity, HRIS, Privacy · 1,043 views

Here is a very interesting (read scary) press release from Think Computer., if you have an outsourced payroll vendor it is a must read!
I wonder what Kim Cameron and others in the identity management domain would think?
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The future of recruiting software in 2005

February 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Future, HRIS, Recruitment · 1,448 views

The Employment Marketplace has an article from Bob Nelson (yes he is a vendor) on where he sees ATS and other recruiting solutions moving in the next 12 months. An interesting read after the last post.
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Resumes

February 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,123 views

Gretchen stirred up a storm on her blog last year with a post on one page resumes for technical candidates. Over the course of the next two days she had lots and lots of comments.
What is really interesting was the HR-XML got a mention in the comments. Why is this cool? Because it was an [...]

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Want to know what is a Blog?

February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,088 views

Darren Rowse published at the beginning of the month a great item on defining a blog. Darren’s site is a fantastic resource for all types of bloggers from the first time blogger to the blogger who wants to earn a living from blogging.
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Thanks John for the traffic!

February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, Recruitment · 981 views

A couple of days ago John Sumser placed my blog in a list of the top 20 or so new HR/recruiting related blogs!
Thanks for the mention, I am most humbled to see my blog there with so many others that I read daily.
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I annoyed Mitch, sorry

February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, Personal · 1,011 views

I think I upset Mitch Denny today (or was that yesterday?). Anyway I think I have finally fixed the comments on my blog. For the last few weeks I have been trying to get Haloscan comments to operate but the Blogger template was just not doing as I wanted it to. With [...]

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Personalised RSS

February 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Future, RSS · 1,090 views

Great item from Enterprise RSS about the possible changes we could see in RSS. Essentially there could be multiple private RSS feeds based on the needs to a single individual or group of individuals.
This starts to move personalisation into RSS, if we all remember personalisation was “the thing” on the web in the late [...]

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mLearning and Smart Phones

February 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Future, Learning · 1,014 views

Another gem from PubSub. Selena has recently begun a blog on her learnings about elearning, with several very good posts.
Her post on mLearning and smart phones. This follows on from my post on Macromedia and eLearning. Selena talks about her teaching of bakers in NZ, a perfect environment for some form of [...]

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Creative commons based learning objects

February 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Learning · 937 views

Found this interesting pieace around learning objects that are released under creative commons. Very cool!
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