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Don’t be the Llama Loser: Social Networking Websites, your business, and your career

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting to the CPA Australia IT Discussion Group on the topic of social networking websites, and how they can affect your business and your career. If there’s one crucial message, it’s that you need to be judicious about what you put on the internet, use the privacy options on Facebook/MySpace, monitor the internet using tools like Google Alert, and be honest and transparent in your dealings with clients online.

Oh, and I think it is essential that all right-thinking adults reconsider their decision to vlog naked…

The presentation is provided below as a PDF. Astute members of the audience will note that I removed the photograph of my wife and I on top of a mountain – for the sake of the children.

This is a companion piece to two articles I have written for InTheBlack magazine (CPA Australia’s journal). The first article (“It’s about who knows you”) is in the June issue, and the second article (“Virtual water cooler”), which is scheduled for July 2008.

The presentation was a lot of fun – please feel free to leave feedback if you attended. I know we went a bit overtime – mostly because of a venue mixup and, to be frank, I had too much material :). It was great to present this on the day that I received notification that I’m now an FCPA.

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CPA Australia ITM CoE meeting

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Well I’m off to Melbourne again this morning for the first face-to-face meeting of the ITM Centre of Excellence this year.  In some ways we’ve been a bit slack this year – but our work plan is still cranking out because we’ve got the dance card aligned. 

There’s a major publication coming out on the business management of IT (that is very, very excellent and I love Chris Gillies’ and Jan Barned’s work on this one – you’ll be able to buy it online very soon), a research publication on telework has come out (thanks John Campbell from University of Canberra and Jon Heales from UQ- read it on the weekend and it looks good), there’s been an article for the CFO Software Guide that comes out next month (on social networking – thanks me!), and there are two forthcoming articles on the impact of social networking on your career and business (June and July issues).

These last two are for InTheBlack and again, thanks me!

There is also a major publication coming up that is a guide to ICT Outsourcing, which wraps up a stream of work that has been around for a couple of years now. 

CPA Australia has also commissioned me to write a policy and procedure guide to social networking.

As well as that I believe there is a ton of work coming through on the telework research front, and I am down to give three presentations at CPA Australia PD sessions in the next four months or so (Townsville, Brisbane, and Sydney and Melbourne, and Brisbane again). 

As well as continuing on with the IT Specialists assessment panel. 

There is also a total review of the websitre, and our content has been, finally, rebranded as “IT Management” rather than eBusiness, and as well as that we came up with some points to go to the 2020 Summit with.  However I don’t know that that produced very much :). 

So when I say ‘slack’ I actually think I may mean it in the ‘quite busy’ context. 

I think our work plan is still going strong – that will be the focus today and to align the dance card for the rest of the year.  April is a bit late for our first face-to-face meeting but no doubt it will all come together.

On another note – I’m thinking about setting up a video blog on this blog – technically, it’s all sorted.  I just need to find something to say.

The Facebook Anthem

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This is really old of course but it sums up a lot of people’s experience with Facebook (now must obsessively stalk facebook friends through status updates.  Bwa ha hahaha).

I’m writing an article on social networking and the pitfalls for young CPA’s – egad, there are so many ways.  Must not huddle in corner…

Billy Joel is probably rolling in his grave – except he’s not dead and hopefully gets some royalties sometime :).  Gotta love that song – the lyrics can be very adaptable.  Oh – and probably Not Safe for Work as it is loud and has some (bleeped) swearing. 

 

Facebook has become the biggest and ‘baddest’ social networking site on the block – it’s mostly fun but there are FAR TOO MANY APPLICATIONS ALLOWED.  And you should see what happens with your data when you click on these things.  I’ve gotten rid of almost all of mine…

And… Facebook is for friends, LinkedIn is for real work :).

Something in the ether…

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Hmmm. The year has been deliberately slow from my point of view to now (but nowhere near moribund – I’ve enjoyed ‘dadding’ it up) but in the past two weeks:

But my ‘networking’ part of my world seems to be paying off as in the last week or two I’ve picked up work with a very good client, been offered a lecturing role at QUT, asked to present at 2 conferences, written a national article for CFO Software Guide (Stitch the wonder cat is now a star), and requested to write another article on social networking for ITB in addition to the one I’m already doing.

And I’m sure there’s stuff I’m missing.

La vie est belle.

Business Process and Change Management

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I note that I really need to keep up with this blogging thing so watch this space some more.

On Monday just gone I gave a presentation on change management (in the context of business process management) for the Ark Group.  I did a fair chunk of research for this presentation – I wanted to feel that I was on top of the topic – and so it does have some (what I consider to be) fairly good content.  The presentation notes are a bit big I think for a blog post (but I will probably put it in the articles section eventually.

For anyone that is wondering (which is perhaps 3 people and my dog), the Applied Insight website will be up and running in the next couple of weeks.  Until then it will be under construction.

The Powerpoint for the presentation on Monday is provided below.  The speaker’s briefing I was given is below:

Monday 26 November

3:45pm:  Business process management and change management

  1. Moving towards an enterprise process-driven organisation
  2. Dealing with employees who have ownership over their processes
  3. Understanding why change management has been tagged as the major factor behind BPM success

Micheal Axelsen, Director, Applied Insight Pty Ltd

 

You can download the PDF handout of the Powerpoint slides on the below link:

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And the complete paper is here:

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I believe the presentation was well received by the participants in the conference, but of course I will wait for feedback from the wonderful Velerie Moerbeck and Aimee Rootes of Ark Group before the jury is in on that.  I wish I had been able to stay longer at the end of the presentation, but being from Brisbane I of course had to fly back on Monday night – and as it was I only checked in 5 minutes before the plane commenced boarding.  Traffic across town was horrific.

Of course that was academic, as flying Virgin the flight was of course delayed (for the fourth time in a row) by at least half an hour.  Grrr.