Entries from January 2008
January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments · General · 949 views
Rant ahead, leave if offended.
First let me say I <3 Twitter, and would pay for the service assuming below is fixed.
Twitter must be the most unreliable web service ever, there I said it! I help organise the Melbourne Twitter meet ups so normally I am very biased but reliability is something Twitter does not have.
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Found a great video (for some reason I can’t embed it in my blog) via Employee Engagement: Results That Matter put together by McDaniel Partners detailing some very interesting insights and statistics around employee engagement, well worth the 4 minute watch.
(Hat tip: HR 101).
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Just a quick follow up post, on my higher ESAT = profitable companies post last week. The 2008 Fortune Top 100 Places to Work for in America has been released, and the winners are:-
1. Google
2. Quicken Loans
3. Wegmans Food Markets
4. Edward Jones
5. Genentech
6. Cisco Systems
7. Starbucks
8. Qualcomm
9. Goldman Sachs
10. Methodist Hospital Syste
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There is a lot of talk these days about social graphs, a newish term used to describe our online social relationships across the myriad of web sites these days. If you are unsure what a social graph is read this description from Jeremiah Owyang.
Another common discussion at the moment is the cross over of [...]
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Amazing what happens during a week of stock market turmoil. I have seen a number of posts over the last few days about losing jobs, getting new jobs, companies going broke etc, etc.
Today I read a post from one Robert Scoble, you might know him :-), who provides 17 tips for job seekers. Read his [...]
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A fairly common statement heard these days in organisations is “high employee satisfaction translates to higher earnings”. Gautam Gosh pointed me to a recent paper by Alex Edmans, a Finance Professor at Wharton which compares;
stock returns of companies with high employee satisfaction and compares them to various benchmarks — the broader market, peer firms in [...]
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January 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General · 1,205 views
Here is a bit of humour.
When most people quit they hand in a resignation letter and tend to speak with their boss. Try this for an approach, link.
Maybe not :-),
It is not real, but it is real funny.
If you did get a resignation letter like this you would certainly wonder about the satisfaction of your [...]
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Work life balance seems to be one of those things everyone is always searching for but no one really has, ok except for Markus Frind. There are never enough hours in my day to do everything I want or need to.
Today I read a great post from Kenny Moore, who got me hooked with a [...]
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For me one of the keys to being a productive knowledge worker is having access to the right information at the right time. This gets even more important as workers begin to self-publish, basically share their knowledge, behind the firewall using blogs, wikis, forums etc. A organisation needs to leverage this data to turn it [...]
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January 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General · 1,226 views
I was reading Twitter Facts during lunch and thought, “how many of us are in Australia?” so I spent a few minutes to find out. I used 2 different tools, first TwitDir and then Twitter’s in built search.
Just to note both search tools have limits. TwitDir only searches public timelines, while both search Usernames, Locations [...]
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