Michael Specht

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

Entries from November 2005

links for 2005-11-30

November 30th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,054 views

E-learning gets an A - Perspectives - Opinion - Technology - smh.com.au
Item on eLearning from the SMH
(tags: elearning)

SMS Job Alerts
Want to get SMS alerts about new job postings, check out this new service in UK and US.
(tags: recruitment SMS)

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Googling can get you in trouble

November 30th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Digital Identity, HR Management · 1,485 views

(Via Doc Searls, via Cameron Reilly).
An Iranian, Hossien Derakshan, ended up being kicked out of the US because the border patrol officer Googled his name, finds his blog, is not with the content so takes him in for questioning. During the questioning they find a magazine with a NY address and to cut [...]

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links for 2005-11-29

November 29th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,180 views

podcasting @ the university of wisconsin - madison
Ever wanted to create a podcast to teach, then here is a 5 step process to get going.
(tags: podcast learning)

Computerworld | New workplace legislation to impact HR, payroll systems
An article from Computerworld that interviews Aurion’s MD about the new Australian IR changes and the impacts on payroll systems. [...]

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links for 2005-11-28

November 28th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,234 views

Computerworld | Call for national data retention laws
A call for Australia wide data retention laws would have profound impact on HR and storage of sensitivity people information
(tags: privacy documentation data surveillance)

CIO | Eyes Everywhere
Are you ready for the next big way in executive information systems? BAM, or business activity monitoring is the way forward, [...]

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Sharing content in a Web 2.0 world

November 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Future, HRIS, RSS, Social Networks, Technology · 1,410 views

A week ago Ray Ozzie posted about Really Simple Sharing a new extension to the RSS (and OPML) protocol from Microsoft called Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE), that is released under Creative Commons. SSE allows asynchronous replication of items among two or more parties via feeds. There has been a bit of a buzz [...]

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Spam spam spam

November 28th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Blogging · 1,806 views

Everyday I get amazed at the comment spam that is posted on my site, 99.9% of it never gets through the spam filters within Wordpress so reads never get to experience it. Today I check out the moderated comments and they just struck me as bizarre.
southernmost aliens mark commences?eastern Perry pinch aimless
quintillion codify?tested offensive,educational [...]

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Phone bills suck

November 26th, 2005 · 1 Comment · General · 1,147 views

Splatt’s really happy with his Engin VOIP phone, and now they have a nice little ad to help spread the word, Phone Bills that Don’t Suck.
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Googling and society and me :-)

November 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Digital Identity · 1,264 views

I mentioned a few weeks ago about an interview I did with David Stonehouse for the Sydney Morning Herald, well it was published in Icon last Saturday. The article looks at how technology is changing the way people gain access to information about you that is in the public domain. With so much [...]

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links for 2005-11-24

November 24th, 2005 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,118 views

Concerns won’t stop IR changes, Andrews says. 24/11/2005. ABC News Online
More noise on the pending IR changes within Australia.
(tags: IR Australia hrm)

Report warns of massive worker shortage. 24/11/2005. ABC News Online
More reports on how we are facing a massive skills shortage
(tags: jobs skills statistics)

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Emails tells little of Telstra sackings

November 24th, 2005 · 1 Comment · HR Management · 1,482 views

Telstra has shown how not to communicate with your employees during a downsizing process.
(From the IntranetBlog)
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