Michael Specht

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

Entries from December 2005

A Christmas break

December 21st, 2005 · 2 Comments · Personal · 1,333 views

Tomorrow morning we are driving back to Sydney to spend Christmas and New Years with family and friends. I doubt I will be posting between now and 7th or 8th of January after we have returned and got our life in back in order.
2005 has been a great year, I thought of doing a [...]

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Social software and SAP

December 21st, 2005 · 7 Comments · Technology · 1,178 views

Ajay Das from SDN posted a couple of days ago about Social computing and possible business models which has some great insight. He says :-
Given that technology has become more prevalent (let us stick with SAP for the time) and more easily available, and, also that is has become easier to create applications, and, [...]

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Are you ahead of the curve?

December 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogging, Communication, HRIS · 1,681 views

Dr John has published his wrap up of 2005 on ERE, and Jason Davis has been a bit taken back by it. In a section “What and Who Needs Rethinking” John discusses “the individuals, firms, or concepts I have encountered this year that clearly need to “rethink” their approach to recruiting.” Blogging seems to [...]

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Judge Jim & co.

December 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Branding, HR Management, Recruitment · 1,472 views

Jim Durbin provides us with details on the judging criteria in the Recruiting.com Best Blog Awards.
I like his general statement, someone who is advancing the brand, where the brand is recruitment. He will be looking for someone who is making an impact on the size of the recruiting blogosphere and how they are using [...]

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Outages

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments · General · 2,262 views

First TypePad and now del.icio.us it just shows the delicate nature of technology.
You just hope it is never your system that goes down like this, but when they do you need to work your butts off to get them back up an running.
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Seek and you shall find

December 18th, 2005 · 10 Comments · Recruitment · 2,550 views

On Friday OnRec published a press release from Seek about how Nielsen//NetRatings had understated Seek’s traffic between April & October 2005 by about 8-10%. Given that Seek claims to draw 1,702,485 unique browsers and 1,733,488 in October and November 2005 respectively this is a fairly large understatement!
This statement got me thinking, how is Seek [...]

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Talentism and the best blogs

December 15th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Blogging, RSS · 1,349 views

Jeff from Talentism provides us with run down of his best blogs based on the nominations in the Recruiting.com Best Blogs Awards for 2005.
I have been thinking a lot about which blogs I read an why, Jeff’s post and the listings of nominations have got me thinking further on the topic. I have boiled [...]

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Yes voting is really open

December 14th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Blogging · 1,302 views

Yes voting is open for Recruiting.com’s Best Blog Awards. The prize, lots of coffee, a trip to Vegas, oh and the feeling of being recognised by your peers.
I would certainly recommend anyone who has anything to do with HR, recruitment, management, learning or knowledge management to check out the blogs. Then vote for [...]

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Voting is open! (Soon)

December 9th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Recruitment · 1,567 views

UPDATED

Yes it is true, Voting has opened opening next week in Recruiting.com 2005 Best Blog awards! Get voting, next week!.
This is a fanstastic exercise from the guys at Recruiting.com, Jobster and how can we forget Joel for the idea!
Only one thing, we can’t let Microsoft win all the awards, oh and I’m sure [...]

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Robert H. Stambaugh died

December 9th, 2005 · No Comments · HR Management, HRIS · 1,164 views

John Macy just emailed me to let me know that last week Robert (Bob) H. Stambaugh died last week aged 59. For those who did not know Bob he was a major influencing factor in HRIS thought leadership over the last 30 years writing many articles and presenting at dozens of conference. I [...]

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