The document discusses learning 2.0 and how communities of practice and social learning can facilitate personal and professional growth. It covers how web 2.0 technologies like wikis, microblogging, RSS feeds, blogs, social bookmarking, podcasts and social networking can be used to create personal learning networks and enhance communities of practice. Examples are provided of how various web 2.0 tools work and how they can be applied.
ENGAGE Your Employees Through Social Media (PRSA Dallas Morning Keynote)Chris Baccus
Presentation about "ENGAGE Your Employees Through Social Media" given by myself (@cbaccus) and Blair Klein (@bklein34) on October 22, 2010 at the Public Relations Society of America Dallas chapter event. Communications Summit event details here: https://www.prsadallas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124&Itemid=72
Social Media? Do I need it? What am I doing right? What am I doing wrong? Is it worth my time? ... Those are some of the topics addressed in this presentation to Small Business Owners, Professionals, and Business Startup Entrepreneurs.
Presented by Marketing Consultant Roland Reinhart on March 18, 2011 at Somerset County Business Partnership in Bridgewater, NJ.
Innovation Thinking: Evolve and Expand Your CapabilitiesTechWell
Innovation is a word frequently tossed around in organizations today. The standard clichés are do more with less and be creative. Companies want to be innovative but often struggle with how to define, implement, prioritize, and track their innovation efforts. Using the Innovation to Types model, Jennifer Bonine will help you transform your thinking regarding innovation and understand if your team and company goals match their innovation efforts. Learn how to classify your activities as "core" (to the business) or "context" (essential, but non-revenue generating). Once you understand how your innovation activities are related to revenue generating activities, you can better decide how much of your effort should be spent on core or context activities. Take away tools including an Innovation to Types model for classifying innovation, a Core and Context model to classify your activities, and a way to map your innovation initiatives to different contexts.
ENGAGE Your Employees Through Social Media (PRSA Dallas Morning Keynote)Chris Baccus
Presentation about "ENGAGE Your Employees Through Social Media" given by myself (@cbaccus) and Blair Klein (@bklein34) on October 22, 2010 at the Public Relations Society of America Dallas chapter event. Communications Summit event details here: https://www.prsadallas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124&Itemid=72
Social Media? Do I need it? What am I doing right? What am I doing wrong? Is it worth my time? ... Those are some of the topics addressed in this presentation to Small Business Owners, Professionals, and Business Startup Entrepreneurs.
Presented by Marketing Consultant Roland Reinhart on March 18, 2011 at Somerset County Business Partnership in Bridgewater, NJ.
Innovation Thinking: Evolve and Expand Your CapabilitiesTechWell
Innovation is a word frequently tossed around in organizations today. The standard clichés are do more with less and be creative. Companies want to be innovative but often struggle with how to define, implement, prioritize, and track their innovation efforts. Using the Innovation to Types model, Jennifer Bonine will help you transform your thinking regarding innovation and understand if your team and company goals match their innovation efforts. Learn how to classify your activities as "core" (to the business) or "context" (essential, but non-revenue generating). Once you understand how your innovation activities are related to revenue generating activities, you can better decide how much of your effort should be spent on core or context activities. Take away tools including an Innovation to Types model for classifying innovation, a Core and Context model to classify your activities, and a way to map your innovation initiatives to different contexts.
The reality is that technology is complicated. As testers, we are challenged with complicated problems that need solving. Andy Glover presents a hands-on workshop that describes a new way of looking at testing problems and ideas. Andy demonstrates how thinking with pictures can help testers discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve their ability to share their insights with others. Andy shows how to clarify a problem or sell an idea by visually breaking it down using a set of visualization tools including mind maps, work flows, and powerful but simple visuals to communicate complex messages. You don’t need to know how to draw to attend this workshop. Although we are naturally creative, sometimes it takes effort to develop those skills. Join Andy to learn how to apply visual solutions to our everyday software testing challenges.
There are many Wall Street pearls of wisdom, or cliches, or snippets of useful information that are bandied around the markets, some of which are furphies. This presentation summaries several year's of Robert's notes on this topic - a list of his Share Market GEMs.
Elizabeth Alo is a Managing Partner of Vitalwork, a 22-year old local consulting company that specializes in organizational and workforce development. Elizabeth has a penchant for the link between desired business results and the corresponding quality of interactions among senior leaders, managers in the middle and customer-facing front-line employees. For eight years she has consulted with leaders in supporting themselves and employees to take on new ways of thinking and acting in times of change that optimize personal and group power, influence, and, most importantly, results. These measurable changes in behaviors are foundational to the achievement of goals and strategic objectives within the companies Elizabeth has consulted and facilitated developmental workshops.
Come hear Elizabeth as she speaks on the importance of handling Crucial Conversations well as a vital step in executing successful strategies and projects.
I'm Your Customer and I Can't Hear YouAaron Strout
I had the pleasure of presenting at Chris Brogan and Justin Levy's Inbound Marketing Summit San Francisco and Dallas. The focus of the presentation is on how marketing got broken, how marketers can fix marketing and a few key results from some of our clients like Sony and Atkins.
GSU Career Conference Global Marcoms Employ Linked In In Your Job SearchKelly Quattlebaum
Thank you to GSU and all of the students who attended my presentation at the GSU Career Conference 2011, Employ LinkedIn in Your Job Search. These are the slides I used during my presentation on LinkedIn. Enjoy!
Have you ever needed a way to measure your leadership IQ? Or been in a performance review where the majority of time was spent discussing your need to improve as a leader? If you have ever wondered what your core leadership competencies are and how to build on and improve them, Jennifer Bonine shares a toolkit to help you do just that. This toolkit includes a personal assessment of your leadership competencies, explores a set of eight dimensions of successful leaders, provides suggestions on how you can improve competencies that are not in your core set of strengths, and describes techniques for leveraging and building on your strengths. These tools can help you become a more effective and valued leader in your organization. Exercises help you gain an understanding of yourself and strive for balanced leadership through recognition of both your strengths and your “development opportunities.”
Chattahoochee Tech AMA LinkedIn | Employ Linked In In Your Job Search | Globa...Kelly Quattlebaum
Thanks again to the AMA at Chattahoochee Tech for the invitation to present about Employing LinkedIn in Your Job Search. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Here are the slides I used during my presentation. Stay in touch!
Five Good And Really Bad Ideas For Bi IniativesJeff Block
Presented at the ITA Business Intelligence Roundtable in January, 2009, this presentation discusses best practices and anti-patterns in launching a successful BI / DW initiative.
From Zero To Enterprise2 0 Hero How To Make Social Software Stick In Your O...Stuart McIntyre
Social software is one of the big news stories of the past couple of years. The rise of social technologies on the Internet has meant that individuals can collaborate and share knowledge faster and more easily than ever before.
Companies are now embracing social software (as 'Enterprise2.0'), but many organizations see roadblocks, policy issues and lack of adoption hindering the success of such projects. Stuart will face these objections head on and discuss strategies to ensure your social software project makes you an Enterprise2.0 hero!
The reality is that technology is complicated. As testers, we are challenged with complicated problems that need solving. Andy Glover presents a hands-on workshop that describes a new way of looking at testing problems and ideas. Andy demonstrates how thinking with pictures can help testers discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve their ability to share their insights with others. Andy shows how to clarify a problem or sell an idea by visually breaking it down using a set of visualization tools including mind maps, work flows, and powerful but simple visuals to communicate complex messages. You don’t need to know how to draw to attend this workshop. Although we are naturally creative, sometimes it takes effort to develop those skills. Join Andy to learn how to apply visual solutions to our everyday software testing challenges.
There are many Wall Street pearls of wisdom, or cliches, or snippets of useful information that are bandied around the markets, some of which are furphies. This presentation summaries several year's of Robert's notes on this topic - a list of his Share Market GEMs.
Elizabeth Alo is a Managing Partner of Vitalwork, a 22-year old local consulting company that specializes in organizational and workforce development. Elizabeth has a penchant for the link between desired business results and the corresponding quality of interactions among senior leaders, managers in the middle and customer-facing front-line employees. For eight years she has consulted with leaders in supporting themselves and employees to take on new ways of thinking and acting in times of change that optimize personal and group power, influence, and, most importantly, results. These measurable changes in behaviors are foundational to the achievement of goals and strategic objectives within the companies Elizabeth has consulted and facilitated developmental workshops.
Come hear Elizabeth as she speaks on the importance of handling Crucial Conversations well as a vital step in executing successful strategies and projects.
I'm Your Customer and I Can't Hear YouAaron Strout
I had the pleasure of presenting at Chris Brogan and Justin Levy's Inbound Marketing Summit San Francisco and Dallas. The focus of the presentation is on how marketing got broken, how marketers can fix marketing and a few key results from some of our clients like Sony and Atkins.
GSU Career Conference Global Marcoms Employ Linked In In Your Job SearchKelly Quattlebaum
Thank you to GSU and all of the students who attended my presentation at the GSU Career Conference 2011, Employ LinkedIn in Your Job Search. These are the slides I used during my presentation on LinkedIn. Enjoy!
Have you ever needed a way to measure your leadership IQ? Or been in a performance review where the majority of time was spent discussing your need to improve as a leader? If you have ever wondered what your core leadership competencies are and how to build on and improve them, Jennifer Bonine shares a toolkit to help you do just that. This toolkit includes a personal assessment of your leadership competencies, explores a set of eight dimensions of successful leaders, provides suggestions on how you can improve competencies that are not in your core set of strengths, and describes techniques for leveraging and building on your strengths. These tools can help you become a more effective and valued leader in your organization. Exercises help you gain an understanding of yourself and strive for balanced leadership through recognition of both your strengths and your “development opportunities.”
Chattahoochee Tech AMA LinkedIn | Employ Linked In In Your Job Search | Globa...Kelly Quattlebaum
Thanks again to the AMA at Chattahoochee Tech for the invitation to present about Employing LinkedIn in Your Job Search. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Here are the slides I used during my presentation. Stay in touch!
Five Good And Really Bad Ideas For Bi IniativesJeff Block
Presented at the ITA Business Intelligence Roundtable in January, 2009, this presentation discusses best practices and anti-patterns in launching a successful BI / DW initiative.
From Zero To Enterprise2 0 Hero How To Make Social Software Stick In Your O...Stuart McIntyre
Social software is one of the big news stories of the past couple of years. The rise of social technologies on the Internet has meant that individuals can collaborate and share knowledge faster and more easily than ever before.
Companies are now embracing social software (as 'Enterprise2.0'), but many organizations see roadblocks, policy issues and lack of adoption hindering the success of such projects. Stuart will face these objections head on and discuss strategies to ensure your social software project makes you an Enterprise2.0 hero!
For the first ten years or so the Internet was like a library where the books are web sites. You could mostly just write and read books or, in other words, view and create websites. In the last 5-6 years, however, the internet has become more like a café where you can not only write and read books but you can write in other people’s books, improve them and rate them while having a conversation about them with other people in the café. 80% of learning is informal and takes places on the job. Web 2.0 can help facilitate that learning. [Read second bullet] As an example, I borrowed most of the Web 2.0 definition in italics from Wikipedia. [NEXT SLIDE]
[link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 ] Most of you have probably heard of wikipedia: it’s a collaborative online encyclopedia where anyone can create or modify articles, and one example of Web 2-0. I created an entry back in 2005 on Yoseikan Budo – the martial art I practice. Since then, dozens of people have edited the article to make it more complete and accurate. Wikis are an excellent way to collaborate on content in the form of one or more web pages that multiple people are working on. [NEXT SLIDE]
Wikis use change control to allow you to see the changes made to a page. Q: Here’s a question for those of you in the chat room - How do or have we use wikis within Perot or at a client site? [NEXT SLIDE]
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090408-122803 – twitter stats http://twistori.com/#i_believe – twitter story http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/dell-has-earned-3-million-from-twitter/ - Dell uses twitter - http://www.dell.com/twitter I think most people don’t ‘get’ micro-blogging at first. I know I didn’t, and I still don’t post updates often. But corporations, including our customers, are using twitter to deliver better customer service. A June blog in the New York Times reported that Dell has made $3 million in sales via twitter. They use twitter to send coupons, post updates on new products, and provide useful information to the twitter community.
Dell has dozens of twitter accounts but one I thought was interesting is Digital Nomads, which posts updates for individuals that travel with their laptop. Notice on this screenshot that I took from twitter on the bottom right there’s a button that says RSS feed. This stands for Really Simple Syndication, which are Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. It’s an easy way to keep track of content from multiple sources in one place.
There are multiple RSS readers available from yahoo or Google for example. This is a screenshot of my Google reader. Whenever I subscribe to an RSS feed, it will show up under my subscriptions. By clicking a blog on the bottom left I can see snippets of the latest posts and read whatever catches my interest. You can also subscribe to specific RSS feeds via Outlook by clicking the RSS Feeds mailbox folder. That content will then be delivered to your inbox. Poll 3: Let’s move on to our next polling question: Do you have a profile on LinkedIn, Facebook, or other Social Networking site? [NEXT SLIDE AFTER POLL]
Open state of the nation blog stats: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html There’s a blog for just about everything. According to the best selling author Seth Godin, who’s written a guide to blogs and the new Web, there are three kinds of blogs: one is a cat blog which is basically a (mostly public) personal diary. I have a blog that I update with just my work activities so I have a record of what I worked on and don’t forget specifics of a project that happened in the past, but it’s private so only I can view it. The second is a boss blog, which are used to communicate to a defined set of people. Two examples are John King’s blog, which updates Perot employees on his activities, and my mom started a blog to update her family and close friends when she was going through cancer recently. The third type of blog is a Viral blog the purpose of which is to spread the ideas of the writer. There may be a number of reasons to do this: to get consulting work, build thought leadership, or to find new customers for example. (There’s a link to his ebook, Who’s There? – a guide to blogs and the new Web – in the appendix).