Michael Specht

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

Entries from February 2008

Become a recruiter for your friends

February 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Recruitment, Social Networks, Technology · 873 views

(Sorry long post.)
Today I was emailed about a new job referral tool in the Australian marketplace, Hoojano in semi private beta. As far as I can tell has stayed under the radar of almost everyone, a Google search yields 38 results. OnRec blog have covered it in a limited fashion, along with James Christian Ladd. [...]

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Learning and YouTube

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Learning, Technology · 530 views

A couple of days ago I came across an article in the Australian IT about how a leading Australian university, Macquarie University, is starting to look at using YouTube to deliver lectures.
Very interesting idea.
Macquarie has been making lectures available for download to students for about 3 years now, so a move to video is not [...]

Popularity: 24% [?]

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Reader numbers mean a rethink

February 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Blogging · 780 views

When I setup my blog several years ago I decided to use FeedBurner to manage my RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/myhrblog). There were several reasons for this decision the top two were portability and statistics. When I moved my blog to WordPress a good couple of years ago I kept my FeedBurner feed and put a link [...]

Popularity: 51% [?]

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101 Links about HR

February 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blogging, HR Management · 789 views

Today I received an email directing me to a new list called “The HR Bible: 100 Articles Every Human Resources Pro Should Read“. Given at one point had grand plans of building a one stop shop of this information, I had to look.
An initial scan over the titles provided we with a sense of excitement, [...]

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Twitter, Twitter, Twitter

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments · General · 708 views

A quick update post on my rant.
A couple of days ago Twitter announced they would be working with Joyeur to help stablise their infrastructure. Well it seems after the last 24 hours that relationship is now more. Posts from Joyuer, Download Squad, & Data Centre Knowledge.
Popularity: 28% [?]

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