Michael Specht

There are many barriers to the take up of social networking tools, and Enterprise 2.0, within organisations.  One of the big ones is fear, which in part is due to a lack of understanding of the tools and a lack of governance. A couple of days ago ComputerWorld published a story about the six commandments [...]

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Yesterday I received my copy of the May 2008 Hitwise Newsletter which tends to cover lots of general high level internet traffic trends in Australia. (Over the last few months I have been ignoring them, they are probably archived somewhere in GMail if I went to find them.) This month I decided to read it.
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A follow up post, I found a few more articles on this whole censorship issue in Australia from numerous sources and some more thoughts.
There has been a huge discussion on Twitter between social media and web folks who I personally consider experts in the online world but many of them seem confused. Not good. Some [...]

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The new Labour Government had announced there intend as part of the election campaign to introduce filtering of the internet and on Dec 31st they provided further details on what would be happening with mandatory filtering of the Internet by ISPs.
Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean [...]

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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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I have put the slides from last night’s presentation online at SlideShare, they can be viewed via http://www.slideshare.net/mspecht/intro-for-hr-on-blogs-web-20/, only issue is you miss out on my fantastic commentary.
A couple of points

The cartoons are all Hugh Macleod’s of gapingvoid fame
To review the buzz words you need to view the CommonCraft Show videos
To learn about Web 2.0 [...]

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IM is finally starting to make it’s way into corporate Australia, I know we are slow off the mark! But this is starting to pose all sorts of issues. The Google Australia blog posted today about this very topic and it reminded me that after about 10 years of prolific IM usage where I currently [...]

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As a self confessed social/digital media groupie I attended MODM4 last night at the Riverland Bar on the side of the Yarra River, food and drinks were provided by Simon Chen from EightBlack.
Many of the “regulars” were in attendance good to catch up with them, also met a few new people which is even better.  [...]

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Another article from the NY Times where it seems the technology that “made” the pornography industry is being used against itself and as such could fundamentally change the industry.
Basically as Clayton Christensen called it “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. Existing powerhouses invest heavily in technology (the big traditional pornography houses) only to be beaten at their [...]

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