Michael Specht

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

Entries from November 2007

Follow up on always on communication

November 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Communication, Management, Productivity, Technology · 1,084 views

Over the last 6 months I have written a few times about always on communication and the impact on workplaces, work life balance and productivity. Today is a follow up.
By the end of next week I will have had the Palm Treo 750 for 2 months. Verdict?
You take my Treo away I will hunt you [...]

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More on privacy, the workplace & social network software

November 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Privacy, Social Networks · 1,127 views

Unless you have been living under a rock you will have heard about the sites called Facebook, or MySpace, and their professional cousin LinkedIn, you might even remember their predecessors Friendster. These sites are basically social network software/service (SNS) where you connect with other people and share information.
Today I read a great article by Cory [...]

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Privacy of personal data

November 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment · HRIS, Privacy · 1,043 views

I haven’t written about data privacy in a while but I could not help it. The “little” issue in the UK in the last couple of days has brought the topic back up. The UK Taxman has “misplaced” 2 CDs full of personal and banking details of about 25 million people. To make matters worse [...]

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We are such a creative bunch

November 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Management · 877 views

Two things occurred to me this morning.

Humans are naturally a creative bunch
We are more than willing to share our creations

How do I know this? Just look at the number of mashups (video, audio, software, & services) that are created everyday.
My questions is. Why in a personal lives are we so openly creative but when when [...]

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Twitter influence and follower growth

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Branding, Social Networks · 892 views

There are several classic cliché’s such as “money makes money” and “success breeds success” that basically mean the more you have of something the more you get. Normally I would dispute these concepts but I am starting to question my personal perspectives.
Two things have happened to make this happen. Firstly I spent an hour or [...]

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Wordcamp Melbourne

November 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,160 views

Yesterday was Wordcamp Melbourne 2007. I arrived a few hours late, overslept a long story, but what I did see was great. Some of the highlights for me:-
Darren Rowse: Good insight into the different types of ads and how the perform on different types of blogs. I need to think through some of these things [...]

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WordCamp Melbourne this weekend

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,039 views

Australian Wordpress evangelist, Edublogs owner, James Farmer has setup up WordCamp Melbourne for this weekend, unfortunately if you have not already registered you will not be able to attend now as it is sold out!
The day kicks off at 11am with drinks and a pre camp chat, then we have some amazing speakers. Alex Shiels [...]

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Organisational change management

November 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Change Management, Management · 1,541 views

While there are lots of reasons for project failures, both IT and non IT, a major reason is poor execution of organisational change management. During the implementation of the project each individual impacted needs to come to terms with the change. Back in 2000 William Bridges and Susan Mitchell Bridges provided a good way of [...]

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The life of being small

November 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Work Life Balance · 1,025 views

We all know that work life balance is important, so much as been written about it in all forms of media that I suspect we have almost become immune to the message. As a reminder Lee Lefever (CommonCraft) posted about a story we have all heard before.
Small town fisherman gets told by a Harvard MBA [...]

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