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Euan has been a long time friend of Headshift and we are pleased to be hosting a short workshop with him at our Sydney office on the morning of Friday, 2nd July.

Euan is here in Australia for a conference - for those of you unable to make that event this is your opportunity to learn from the experiences of a respected social computing pioneer.

Please note: Places at this workshop will be limited to just 12 people, giving ample time for discussion.

Euan will be focusing on the following themes:

The future

"The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed" - William Gibson.

Euan will explore some of the more radical things already happening in the world of technology, business and work. We will build on those examples and try to anticipate the likely change we can expect to see happening in the next ten to twenty years and how we will deal with that change.

Leading in the wired world

Many of the skills of leadership change little from generation to generation but some of our assumptions about what it takes to lead will be challenged over the next few years. Moving from control to influence how do we motivate and get things to happen in increasingly complex worlds? What sort of characteristics will we expect from leaders in the future and how do we encourage and develop those skills?

Collaborative strategy

Euan will also look at strategy in the future. How do you develop strategies when the world is changing ever faster? How do you harness the collective intelligence of your people to achieve better, more accurate strategic decisions?

Time: 8am registration. 8.30am start, formally finishing at 11am (with time to chat with Euan at the end, so you may wish to plan to leave at 11.30am).

Tea, coffee and a light breakfast will be provided at registration.

To attend this special event with Euan, please use our online registration and payment page. Please note, places are strictly limited.

Cross-posted from the Headshift Australasia blog.

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Unfortunately, due to a last minute family commitment, I didn't actually get to Enterprise 2.0 to Breakfast yesterday. Luckily Anne from Headshift stepped in to co-host in my place and with a bit of ingenious sign posting was able to get everyone into the same spot. I think that approach is quite fitting for Enterprise 2.0 - a simple, but effective solution to a problem!

If I recall Anne's summary to me later, the conversation this time around included Alex Manchester (Step Two), Kai Riemer (Uni of Syd), Matt Moore (Innotecture), Neil Phillps (Unique World), Jarrod Swan (IBM) and Alister Webb (Telstra). I know there were quite a few others like Michael interested who like me couldn't make it on the day, so hopefully we'll get to see even more new faces at our next meetup in a few months time.

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My presentation idea for Ignite Sydney 4 wasn't successful, but I was still pretty excited about going along tonight to experience the event for the first time. I have to say that I absolutely love the format, although the pace of the slides transitions wasn't actually as fast as I was expecting - so while the presenters have to keep moving, its not as rushed as you might expect. An "Ignite Express" event with faster, shorter talks could be an interesting variation on the theme, perhaps?

The whole event actually makes me think of a more user-friendly version of BarCamp (and not just because there was actually a bar at Ignite). Like BarCamp, a series of diverse, quirky, talks were served up and there was still a strong tech and media feel to many of them. In fact, I bumped into more than few people I've met at BarCamp Sydney and Canberra (and elsewhere).

However, unlike BarCamp everything was organised well in advance and the organisers aren't afraid to accept sponsorship to help pay for the venue etc. I think having been through the minimalist BarCamp approach (sponsors are very low key at BarCamp) I was a little taken a back by the advertising at Ignite. Some of the presenters were also sponsors or organisers, so it was a little confusing. At least one of the presentations felt like a sales pitch, but I don't think they were a sponsor.

That aside, the atmosphere was good and its exciting to see the Ignite event bring a different presentation style (and even some topics) to a broader audience. Perhaps this style might go even more mainstream in the future? I'd love to see this happen at a conference!

This is a serious point - the BarCamp community see their events as a model for others to follow. However, for the Ignite audience I think their slightly more commercial and a little more organised approach also works pretty well.

BTW I should point out that local charity, OzHarvest, were the recipients of a voluntary $5 entry fee.

I also think I have a better idea of what works at Ignite. So wish me luck for Ignite 5 :-)

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Enterprise 2.0 meet up this morning, here in Sydney. One of the main themes in the conversation this morning was discussing our own experiences of the different organisational factors - such as internal politics, perceptions of productivity in the workplace, information security concerns and generational change - that get in the way of effectively introducing enterprise social computing.

Unfortunately, due a sporting injury, Alex wasn't was able to make it this time but hopefully he'll be recovered for our next meet up. If you couldn't make today either but would like to be invited to future meet ups, please get in touch with your twitter or email details so I can 'ping' you when we schedule our next event.

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