My blog of HR, and technology stuff

Remember my blog has moved to http://www.specht.com.au/michael , while the blog has moved the feed has stayed the same.

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/remember-blog-moved.html

Hi after several weeks of thought I have decided to move this blog to a new home . From now on I will be using WordPress and be based at www.specht.com.au . Each old post on this site will have ...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/new-home.html

Great to see Anne Barlett-Brag caling for podcasting to enter education. Having seen the increase in productivity from my wife now she can download her lectures same day from Macquarie Uni there...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/podcasting-in-education.html

Regina from BNet Blogs asks an interesting question. How do you measure the success of a blog strategy? There are many items out there that can help you develop your measures. At the end of...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/success-of-your-blog.html

A couple of days ago Indeed announced a partnership with Info.com that will integrate the 100,000s of jobs that Indeed has into Info.com 's aggregated search engine. (In Australia Sensis is ...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/vertical-search.html

It seems the Japanese are getting very serious about the security of their children . They now have knife proof clothing, GPS tagged bags and personal alarm systems. However I have to wonder ab...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/japan-knives-and-gps-tracking.html

simplyhired is another vertical search tool that has entered the market in the last few weeks. They will be taking on Indeed . Interestingly they already have a linkage/partnership with Linked...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/another-vertical-search-tool.html

It seems Seek had a reasonable first day in the Australian Stock Market, which is good considering the overall market went south. In the long term I wonder how they will perform and what impa...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/online-recruitment-company-lists.html

Just noticed that DIMIA (Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs) in Australia have released changes to the infamous 457 Visa's. I wonder if it will have an impact o...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/new-visa-arrangements-in-australia.html

I found this interesting piece of news this morning. Lenn Pryor , Robert Scoble's boss is off to the UK to join Skype . He leaves Microsoft after almost 8 years. Interesting, I wonder long te...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/lenn-leaving-microsoft-to-join-skype.html

Dub's has continued his thoughts on workflow and extended on my post around messaging (aren't blogs great!) and simplified my thoughts into an easy to read summary. However I don't agree with...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/messaging-and-workflow.html

I just noticed Electronic Recruiting Exchange has blogs. Cool. Not sure how long they have been there but it is still good to see, now only if they had an RSS feed.

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/ere-has-blogs.html

Ok this is just a rant and I am picking on Hire Desk only because they are the most recent company to do this. Many technology focused companies require you to register before you can download ...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/white-paper-registration.html

Heather Hamilton provides a great summary on what I feel makes blogs such a wonderful communication tool.

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/truth-about-blogging.html

I touched on the subject during my quick Jobster review last week and previously , technology alone will not save you. Well, today I noticed that the Jobster Blog provides a great overview as t...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/theres-more-to-life-than-just.html

I have just changed my blogroll to more accurately reflect who I am reading. I was using BlogRolling but found it very difficult to keep in sync with Newsgator Online and as such as I added fee...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/just-updated-my-blogroll.html

Robin Good links to an interesting paper on the impact of podcasting and vodcasting in education. A recommended read for anyone involved in learning.

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/podcasting-and-vodcasting-in-education.html

I'm sure this has been mentioned last week by someone, I just can't remember, so here goes again. Further to my last post what happens when Mary from accounts posts her video on Google, while ...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/more-on-employee-communications.html

Lori Dorn points to an interesting piece by Niall Kennedy (from Technorati) on blogging policies and how employers in his mind are not looking broader enough at their policies. Naill touches ...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/blogging-policies.html

Dubs from the HR Technology Discussion board provides a great primer on workflow . As Dubs said workflow in HR is HUGE, I could not agree more. The ROI that can be demonstrated by an effective ...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/workflow-vs-hrms.html

(Via blog*on*nymity ) The EFF have published an interesting item on how to blog anonymously. The post has some good tips and some not so good ones, many are also only relevant if you live in t...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/blog-anonymously.html

Just a quick post before I leave for work. Yesterday I had lunch with Dave Lefkow from Jobster who was in Australia on evangelising-type trip, and thanks again to Dave for picking up the tab. ...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/quick-jobster-review.html

My post on .jobs has been profiled on CircleID with the title Fitting .JOBS Into the Marketplace

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/ive-been-published-on-circleid.html

Via Angus Logan Stephen Huen has created a series of HR focused placeholders for Sharepoint and the MS Content Mgmt Server. If you are a sharepoint site you might want to have a look and see ...

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/hr-plug-ins-for-sharepoint.html

Joel Spolsky has just opened up a new forum on his Joel on Software site for jobs in the software development field. Like all good sites it has an RSS feed.

http://myhrblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/jobs-discussion-board.html