Michael Specht

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

Entries from September 2005

The last Saturday in September

September 24th, 2005 · 1 Comment · General · 1,047 views

Let’s just say the Sydney Swans rule! After 72 years they have another flag,58 vs 54 against the West Coast Eagles.
Oh, if you are not from Australia you can just ignore this post.
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Following Oracle World

September 22nd, 2005 · 2 Comments · HR Management · 1,109 views

I have been following Oracle World via systematic viewpoints one of the new blogs at hrblogs.org, a great blow by blow account of one persons experiences at Oracle World.
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Blogging makes the world go around (at least in part)

September 20th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Recruitment · 2,249 views

Today Jason Davis posts about how companies can track what is said about them online through tools like Google Blog Search, IceRocket and Technorati. Jason provides a recent example from last week where ERExchange modified their blogging tool based on feedback. While I agree completely there is a lot of other things you [...]

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links for 2005-09-19

September 19th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 1,632 views

KBCafe job search
Another vertical search tool (RSS Meta Search) for jobs being run by the RSS Blog guys.
(tags: jobs rss search)

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links for 2005-09-18

September 18th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 855 views

Job Sites: The “Second Generation”
Recruiting 2.0 from the makers of CareerBuilder
(tags: recruitment referral resume)

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Multinational networks

September 18th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, Social Networks · 903 views

One of the most amazing aspects of blogging is the online connections that can be formed. These networks would most likely never be formed offline. Take for example this post from Afshin Dabiri who writes about HR from Iran. I tried to comment to say thanks for the link as Ahshin has [...]

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Accelerating Change 2005

September 18th, 2005 · No Comments · Technology · 1,320 views

I have been following many of the posts from Accelerating Change 2005 over the last couple of days. Some of the places I have been following along are:-
Scott Lemon
Future Salon
Technorati tag=AC2005
I can only hope that IT Conversations has the audio available in the coming weeks so I can listen along as I did last [...]

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A $5,000 bounty, but does it work?

September 18th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Recruitment, Social Networks · 1,725 views

Seth Godin is looking for a chief engineer and is offerig a $5,000.00 Bounty (aka referral bonus) to anyone who find them for him to be paid 6 months after hire. This is interesting because again it shows the usage of blogs for recruitment.
Writing a professional based blog, not a corporate blog, develops a [...]

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A free blogging tool for HR professionals

September 16th, 2005 · 7 Comments · Blogging · 5,053 views

Over the last few months I have been exchanging emails with James Farmer over several of his different projects all of which get me fired up.
One such project which I have borrowed the idea from is edublogs to create hrblogs.org a free blog tool for HR professionals! Over the last few weeks I have [...]

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Video conferencing

September 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Recruitment · 1,616 views

OnRec has a story on the mobile phone provider 3 is using videos as part of the recruitment process in the UK. What 3 is doing is apply an automatic filter on candidates before even looking at them, if you don’t already have a 3 phone then they don’t want to hire you. [...]

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