Dion will be conducting two half day workshops in Sydney on May 17th: Social Business 101, and Consumerisation of IT.
This will be the only time these transformative and highly engaging workshops will be available in Australia this year.
Don’t miss this one-time opportunity to get the latest IT and business strategy direct from a top industry leader.
via headshift.com.au
Cross-posted from the Headshift Asia Pacific blog.
I’m presenting at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) NSW chapter meeting on 25th October, about moving from systems of record to systems of engagement:
Social Media guru, James Dellow will give us a briefing on some of the emerging trends in the way Social Media tools are changing the way organisations are thinking about recordkeeping, information and knowledge. If pressed, James might also offer insights into the latest technology and tools such as Jive, tibbr, Yammer, Socialtext, Drupal Commons, and the rest!
Where: Sydney CBD, Australia
When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
For more details and to register, see the IIM’s registration page for this event.
Crossed posted from the Headshift | Dachis Group Asia Pacific blog.
I'm at day 1 of Intranets2011 today, what is billed as a "fully-fledged conference for intranet practitioners". Personally, I'm pleased to see a reasonable selection of social business related presentations (apart from my own of course):
Strongly related topics around organisational change include:
My first impressions this morning, primarily from listening to Jane McConnell's presentation, is that here in Australia (and NZ) there is still a big divide between 'traditional' intranet managers and those moving towards social business (what some also call "enterprise 2.0"). This is not just evident in the language and stories used, but also in the stats.
Out of 120+ people attending today, only one person admitted to being a community manager and 1 person identified themselves as being from HR. Two people had attended an "Enterprise 2.0" branded conference. This mix was also largely mirrored in Jane's stats.
This doesn't mean people aren't interested (based on my conversation over the break) and I hope the content over the next few days will help to bridge that gap between these different communities. However, there is also a view that its time for intranet managers to adapt or face the risk of the ground simply shifting from beneath them (Jane talked about an organisation where a group leading a social network initiative openly talk about trying to kill off the old intranet, and intranet team with it).
One mistake I think people here might make is to treat social media as feature. While I agree that the terminology and phrases we use around 'social' will increasingly become business-as-usual, I disagree that you can view this change simply as a technology feature to incorporate.
In this respect, James Robertson is correct that something is changing in the world of intranets. I might modify that slightly and say - it has already changed.
Lets see what happens next.
Over 4 weeks – across 4 continents – 4 Summits will be convened.
Sydney, 2 March - Austin, 10 March - London, 24 March – Singapore, 6 April...the global series of Dachis Group Social Business Summits will be launched in Sydney, bringing together internationally recognised thought leaders and expert practitioners to create a vision and inspire conversations about the state of Social Business in 2011.
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Attendance is by invitation only, so please be quick to register your interest as places are limited and filling fast!
Sydney
Date: Wednesday, 2 March
Venue: The Mint, 10 Macquarie St, Sydney
Cost: A$395 early bird (to 18th Feb)Singapore
Date: Wednesday, 6 April
Venue: The BoatHouse,
Cost: US$395 early bird (to 11th March)Request an invitation and find more information on the Social Business Summit website.
Just in case you've missed us talking about this elsewhere. If you are interested in attending, don't forget to request your invitation!
Everyone is talking about social media, social networks, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter but not many people are discussing how to be a socially designed business.A social business is one where we use the opportunities presented by new technologies to deliver business value - to reduce costs, increase effectiveness or mitigate risks.Come along to this presentation to discuss a new perspective on being a socially designed business:
- Customer Participation: Engaging with customers in ways that traditional one-way communication cannot support.
- Workforce Collaboration: Meeting your workforce's need to collaborate and coordinate efforts to effectively meet business goals.
- Business Partner Optimisation: Rethinking value chain relationships, including connections like suppliers, distribution networks, and vendors/delivery partners.
During the presentation, the Headshift team will facilitate discussion and lead a brainstorming activity to help you understand the opportunities and think about next steps.
The Headshift team is running a short event on the 23rd November, here in Sydney. Hope to see you there!
I was disappointed that I couldn't make this SI BarCamp in Sydney over the weekend, but from the photo stream it looks like they had a successful day! Headshift's Kate Carruthers was one of the co-unorganisers, along with Michelle Williams (who I met through the Social Innovation Camp process earlier in the year).
I was really disappointed that I missed the public forum with Ezio Manzini, held in Sydney last week. However, I did manage to find this recorded excerpt from a presentation he made in 2008 where he talks about service design and social innovation.
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.
Just to let you know that I have a couple of conferences coming up this month and in July where I'll be running workshops:On the second day of this conference, I'll be running a workshop on designing a simpler, smarter, social knowledge transfer and retention approach. In this workshop I will be using our Social Business Design framework to explain how to tap into collective intelligence, improve productivity through in-the-flow knowledge transfer and do more with less.I will be running a full-day masterclass on the last day of this conference, to provide an A-Z guide to implementing a social media marketing strategy. This will be based on Gov 2.0 Taskforce Project 8 guidelines, developed by Headshift, however I'll also be providing an overview of current current Web trends and their impact on policy setting and public sector marketing.As always, come along to either of these workshops ready to participate!
Cross-posted from the Headshift Australasia blog.
