Michael Specht

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

Entries from June 2007

Spock searches for people

June 30th, 2007 · 10 Comments · HR Management, Recruitment, Social Networks · 1,508 views

For all you recruiting types out there, there is a new service that you need to be aware of, Spock. Currently in beta, it’s kind of private but if you ask I will send you an invite as of writing I have 100.
Basically Spock is a search tool about people and the validity of [...]

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Hyperconnectivity and the Semantic web

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Future, Technology · 1,578 views

This is another half thought out post where I am “throwing mud against the wall to see what sticks”.
(Disclosure I work for Nortel, and they in no way support, or sponsor/endorse this blog, all the comments are personal.)
One of the big trends Nortel, and others, see in the coming years is hyperconnectivity, where more [...]

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Lost my readers?

June 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogging · 1,260 views

I have noticed a very interesting occurrence since my blog died, well actually the hosting provider disappeared, my readers seem to have disappeared as well. Not sure if it is a timing thing, an issue with the feed, if my Googlejuice has dried up, the stars are out of alignment or if was something I [...]

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Technology is still failing to meet the needs of HR

June 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments · HR Management, HRIS, Recruitment · 1,827 views

Sorry this is a major rant, I don’t have time to fully explore the whole issues but I had to blog about it anyway.
Watson Wyatt Worldwide released a press statement overnight that concerns me greatly and leaves me to believe that either their research is wrong or technology has fundamentally let down HR over the [...]

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The problem with readers/customers/users

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Management · 1,043 views

Please don’t take this the wrong way but it was nice to blog without readers, but in a way it is even better to blog with them. Let me tell you why.
Without readers it is just you and the keyboard. Nothing more, nothing else. You can’t insult, upset, disappoint anyone. You [...]

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Doing one more thing

June 24th, 2007 · 5 Comments · HR Management, Management, Productivity · 2,093 views

Anna Farmery from over at The Engaging Brand pushes us all to do just one more thing, well 10 of them in fact. She asked what would happen to the productivity your team if you did one more thing from the list every day?
The list is mainly about recognition, something that is in line [...]

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Happy 3rd Blogoversary and reflections.

June 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Blogging · 1,118 views

Today it is 3 years since I started my blog over on Blogger, before moving it to my own domain name using WordPress. Over those 3 years I have written 1,012 post and had 1,054 real comments, not to mention several hundred thousand spam comments! Although the Blogger blog was not my first [...]

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Blog is back!!

June 21st, 2007 · 6 Comments · Blogging · 1,140 views

Just a quick note to apologize to everyone who reads this blog or subscribes to the feed. We have been offline for the last 4 days due to a hosting issue, basically the old host skipped town.
I have moved host, restored my backups (over 400mb of compressed data) and finally got things back up.
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links for 2007-06-13

June 13th, 2007 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,199 views

iTWire - IT graduates harder to find says CSC boss
Australia’s shortage of IT graduates is impacting business and causing the Immigration Dept to change the visa rules
(tags: jobs graduates recruitment employement immigration)

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Productivity ideas

June 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Personal, Productivity · 1,215 views

During my weekly review today I looked through some feedback from the HBDI Survey I took for the training course in Hong Kong, if you know HBDI I am D > A > C > B. One of the pieces of feedback was to look at ways to develop other quadrants, to help [...]

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