Michael Specht

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

Entries from August 2007

Blogging to be a little light on

August 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Personal · 1,505 views

Right now blogging is a little light on due to many reasons, things should right themselves soon. Having said that the fact of writing one post will probably generate me to post lots more.
Anyway if I don’t post for now, I’m sorry, I will soon.
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MTUB #3

August 17th, 2007 · 4 Comments · General, Social Networks · 1,985 views

Last night was the 3rd MTUB (Melbourne Twitter Underground Brigade) meetup, sponsored by Adobe (and someone else but I can’t remember) who bought us all a few drinks and pizza. I think fun was had by all, highlights.

There was an iPhone in the wild, anyone who touched it had complete iPhone lust
Lots of photos were [...]

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links for 2007-08-16

August 16th, 2007 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,671 views

Enterprise RSS: Enterprise RSS Use Cases Proliferate
A good run down of uses cases for Enterprise RSS usage
(tags: rss newgator enterprise web2.0)

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Try Twitter Instead of Mahalo for People-Powered Search «
Using twitter as a search engine, not new people have been doing it for a while, but a good comparison to [...]

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links for 2007-08-15

August 15th, 2007 · No Comments · del.icio.us · 1,461 views

7 Reasons Why Virtual Worlds Are Like the Web Circa 1997 | Metaversed
(tags: marketing SecondLife trends Web2.0 metaverse virtualworlds)

Case-Notes from the Artsy Asylum: ZDNet’s Dennis Howlett Makes U Turn in Second Life
(tags: SecondLife web2.0 learning virtualworlds)

Main Page - Project VRM
(tags: collaboration business web2.0 wiki work VRM identity)

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Blasts from the Past

August 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Change Management, Communication, Knowledge Management, Learning · 1,841 views

Over the last couple of days I have been looking for inspiration on what to blog about, so I started researching a couple of topics on communication, collaboration and employee engagement. Funny enough I found some of my old posts, so I thought instead of writing something new I would give you “5 Blasts from [...]

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Justifying Social Networks?

August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · HR Management, HRIS, Social Networks · 2,227 views

UPDATE: I changed the title as I hated it, don’t even like the new one but it is better.
For some of my new readers I suspect this post is a bit “old-skool” in style.
Jason Corsello from The Human Capitalist blog wrote an interesting piece the other day proposing that maybe HR could shepherd social networking [...]

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What generation are you?

August 7th, 2007 · 18 Comments · Future, Management · 4,439 views

I have been posting a bit about the whole Generation debate/issue over the last few months, and so have a lot of people if the Google Trends graph is correct.
One such post is Penelope Trunk’s on What generation are you part of, really? Take this test. Which basically states your generation is not 100% defined [...]

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DOD’s payroll replacement project

August 7th, 2007 · No Comments · HR Management, Recruitment, Technology · 1,755 views

It was about 10 years ago I first heard of the PMKeyS project at Australian Department of Defence. At the time it was one of the large PeopleSoft implementations in the world, and the largest in Australia (if not in the top 3 I can’t remember). Anyway, I read today that they are in the [...]

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Open up the network and be really Web 2.0

August 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Social Networks · 1,384 views

Warning rant.
My biggest complaint about social networks is they are basically a closed shop, and I have told that to anyone who will listen. You pour all this data in and if you want to leave, too bad you need to start again.
No!
Finally it seems others are starting to see the light as well. Scott [...]

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My Link Blog

August 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging · 1,890 views

Over the last year or more I have been sharing items from Google Reader in my Link Blog, it occurred to me that I have no idea if anyone actually subscribes to it and if so should I keep up sharing what I read.
The answer? FeedBurner.
I took my really unfriendly Google Shared Items feed;
http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/16562930266800406239/state/com.google/broadcast
And re-packaged [...]

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