Michael Specht

There must be something in the water cause here is a list of the Top 25 HR blogs, there is some cross over with the Top 100 list from yesterday, and a couple of new ones which were noticeably absent from the first list, eg The Human Capitalist by Jason Corsello.
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Something I have been struggling with for about 18 months is information overload, who hasn’t, especially with regard to email and RSS feeds and to a lesser extend podcasts.
To date my method of coping has been to unsubscribe (I removed about 500 blog feeds) or ignore the stream of information (which I do with email [...]

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Came across a list of the Top 100 HR blogs from back in September. An interesting read and well worth checking them out if you are looking to expand your feeds.
A couple of thoughts. First it is good to see some of the older blogs (2 year +) there and a lot of new ones. [...]

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I know many people just don’t get Twitter, even when it is explained to them, however given the growth of the tool there must be “Something about Twitter?”

(From http://cogdogblog.com/2007/04/26/splj-20/)
But what is it?
Over the last week I have seen a few blog posts once again trying to sort out what it is and a couple knocking [...]

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Over the next couple of weeks I will be up in Sydney to catch up with friends and family. Leaving Melbourne on Christmas Day I will be spending a few days getting to Sydney and will arrive around 27th Dec and staying until 4th Jan.
If you want to catch up drop me a line on [...]

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A while back I blogged about these cool mesh network devices called Meraki’s. Well last week I finally got my act together and purchased a few, unfortunately I had to keep the value under $1000 to vale on import duty so there will be another order.
These cool little devices arrived yesterday afternoon!
So first thing I [...]

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Earlier today I got told that Marc Orchant has passed away. Marc suffered a massive heart attack last week and never recovered.
Personally I never met Marc but but I was lucky enough to hear him speak about productivity (GTD specifically) on several occasions. He was one of my Twitter friends and to my surprise even [...]

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Yesterday I caved and went back to Twitter, yes I know I am weak but that is a whole other story. There was a conversation about the red vs blue pill in the Matrix, remember the red one you learn the truth while the blue one you go on living the lie. I got [...]

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I am currently on day 3 of a self imposed Twitter/Facebook/social network ban so I kind of feel I am disconnected from a community I have heavily been involved in for over a year. Why is a long story and I’m not sure how much longer it will go on for.
Today I found a great [...]

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