Michael Specht

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

Entries from March 2005

Technorati & one billion links

March 31st, 2005 · No Comments · General · 820 views

Will this be the one billionth link? Probably not I think it will be at March 31st 11:45pm Australian EST which is in about 9 hours.
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Could the person you are looking for be here?

March 31st, 2005 · No Comments · General · 872 views

Via Asia Pacific Headhunter.
There are 3 million new graduates in China this year, hmm maybe there is a solution to the proposed labour shortage?
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Jobster has gone live

March 31st, 2005 · No Comments · HRIS, Recruitment · 1,318 views

A new recruitment tool was launched overnight Jobster. They have been around for about 18 months and in the process raised $US10.5mil so what are they and what shall we expect from them?
Jobster is a new online recruitment service that joins together social networking and your network of contacts. What? Personal referrals basically. [...]

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#$#%#@ blogger

March 30th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,256 views

Just lost a nice post about Jobster and their launch today. Pressed the Publish Post button and got:-
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, support@blogger.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done [...]

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Mitch reviews Frog Creek job ad

March 30th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,041 views

Mitch Denny provides an interesting review of a job ad posted by Joe Spolsky of Frog Creek Software fame.
An great insight into how a candidate sees a job ad and if I read in between the lines the ad got Mitch’s attention. While he says he is not leaving, and he is in Melbourne and [...]

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Health agencies to trial ASP HRMS

March 30th, 2005 · No Comments · HRIS · 957 views

The IT Australian had an article yesterday about Victorian Health Services looking to replace their existing HRMS systems for the six agencies by the end of March 2006. With the resulting vendor possibly having all the 60,000 employees.
The catch?
It must be an ASP thin client. I guess the client server vendors will be [...]

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Employers & Blogs

March 30th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, Branding, Communication, HR Management, New Media · 2,392 views

Ahh, Tuesday night brings the weekly newsletter from Workforce Management. This week a couple of interesting things to report, you might need to subscribe to view them.
Firstly a survey for HR professionals looking at who within HR is involved in blogs, 70% (when I took the survey) said they did NOT participate nor read blogs [...]

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My Resume

March 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Personal, Recruitment · 1,279 views

Well tonight have begun thinking about what is going to happen post the takeover of my company (WMC) by BHP Billiton, I decided now is the time considering each have now made formal statements to the ASX. When I took the role at WMC I knew they were going to be taken over, the question [...]

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Blogs & Wikis by InfoWorld

March 29th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 1,057 views

InfoWorld has a good primer on the use of wikis and blogs within an enterprise. While for someone who has been around blogs and wikis for a while none of the information will seem new, it is a great introduction for new people. If you are looking to get them introduced into your [...]

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Revised corporate blogging guidelines

March 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, HR Management, New Media · 1,047 views

Michael Hyatt from Working Smart has published the revised version of his companies blogging guidelines. While less legal than the first version I still think it gets the point across.
He is looking for comments and feedback, if you have any let him know.
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