Michael Specht

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

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June 23rd is a big day!

June 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Enterprise 2.0, Personal · 323 views

Today is a big day!
My final official day of employment with Nortel, which means my noticed period started 1 month ago. At 10:30am I meet with HR to hand back all of the “corporate items” and move on.
It is 4 years since I wrote my first blog post. That is 1,460 days worth of blogging, [...]

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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 [...]

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101 Links about HR

February 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blogging, HR Management · 788 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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Top 25 HR blogs

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, HR Management · 1,578 views

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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Taking control of information overload

December 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Knowledge Management, Productivity · 1,181 views

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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Listing of Top 100 HR blogs

December 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging, HR Management · 1,042 views

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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What’s with this Twitter thing?

December 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Communication, Social Networks · 1,442 views

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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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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