Michael Specht

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

Entries from August 2005

It’s Blog Day!

August 31st, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,441 views

Ok it is Blog Day!
Now I just need the 5 new blogs!
Ruminate
Russ Abbott’s Adventures in Blogland
sevenapril
iridescent perceptions
DigitalNode
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A new HR feed aggregator

August 31st, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, HR Management · 1,402 views

Oliver Davoust has created another HR feed aggregator. His service offers summary text from posts directing readers back to the original blog to read the full story.
The service is primarily designed for the French marketplace as a service for job seekers. A good vertical use of a feed aggregator.
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The other SplattBlog

August 29th, 2005 · 2 Comments · General · 1,002 views

Just looking at the blogs ABC has for kids with my son and I found the other SplattBlog, the question is which has the most insightful posts, the old or the new?
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Popularity: 9% [?]

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Blog directories and search

August 28th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Blogging · 2,409 views

We really need a better method of finding new blogs I want to keep up but find if hard to track new blogs down.
Yes we have Technorati, Feedster, IceRocker, Bloglines, PubSub etc but they just don’t seem to work for me. I want a meta classification environment of blogs, not at post level as [...]

Popularity: 20% [?]

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links for 2005-08-27

August 27th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 899 views

ContingentWorkforce.Org
Taleo Launches Taleo Research to look into how TMS is being used in organisations, look forward to seeing some fo the results
(tags: TMS recruitment Taleo)

Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: Blogs, Forums, Us and Them
What is the real difference between a blog and a forum?
(tags: blog forum collaboration learning)

Popularity: 8% [?]

Popularity: 8% [?]

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Is Australia listening?

August 27th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Recruitment · 1,082 views

Jorge from Blogging from Hudson is on a similar thought path to me around Australian job boards sleeping!
If you are listening let us know! Maybe I should right an open letter to them, it seemed to have worked for Joel.
Jorge also goes onto to talk about how to make some very similar [...]

Popularity: 9% [?]

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Presentation available

August 27th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Recruitment · 1,291 views

I have put the presentation from Thursday up on my site it is available in two formats, online and PDF. The online version has been created using Microsoft’s “Save As Web page” function in Powerpoint, and of course only really works on IE, it will display in Firefox but not very well hence why [...]

Popularity: 10% [?]

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OPML and LMS catches on

August 27th, 2005 · No Comments · Learning · 1,400 views

Amy Bellinger from Learnandteachonline.com is pondering about the use of OPML in LMS’s. I really see this as a fantastic merger as I have said before here and here. I guess time will tell if it catches on.
Popularity: 12% [?]

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links for 2005-08-26

August 26th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,089 views

Trackback is Dead (by Jeremy Zawodny)
Jeremy Zawondy starts an interesting discussion around if trackbacks are dead or not, kind of like the to comment or not to comment argument.
(tags: blog WordPress trackback)

Holden cuts 1,400 assembly jobs. 26/08/2005. ABC News Online
More manufacturing jobs go in Australia
(tags: Jobs Australia)

Engadget 1985 - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Engadget 1985, thanks to [...]

Popularity: 9% [?]

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Fusion

August 26th, 2005 · No Comments · HR Management · 1,259 views

Dub Dubs provides a fantastic run down of what to expect from Oracle over the next few years as they struggle to combine Oracle , PeopleSoft and JD Edwards. If you have anything to do with HR Systems in a medium to large organisation this is a must read.
In summary: version of PeopleSoft & [...]

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