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Melcrum are running the Employee Engagement Conference 2008 on 29 & 30 May, plus 2 pre-conference workshops on 28 May at the Sydney Harbour Marriott Hotel, Pitt Street.
If you are involved in engagement issues, you won’t want to miss this line up:

Jonathon Champ, Head of Communication, QBE Australia
Matthew Pritchard, Internal Communication Manager, Customer Service, [...]

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Here’s a brilliant collection of words and phrases to describe Social Media, as given to me by my very smart PR folks at my Social Media Strategy workshop run on behalf of the PRIA NSW within their Professional Development series:

virtual
global
ever-changing

multi-format
global
aspirational

risk
intermediary
accessible

immediate
convergent
online community

?credible
evangelism
growing

faddish
open-forum
word of mouth

sharing
opportunity
trial & error

human
free
uncontrolled media

independent
destructive
social networking

activism
?moderated
consumer led

spirited
terrifying
agenda informing

viral
peering
open to exploitation

evolving
lurking
open to manipulation

addictive
inevitable
flat<–>hierarchical

inspirational
confusing
two-way conversation

 
Thanks, [...]

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So it’s Day Three of four days in Shanty Town… sorry, Sydney Town. Now that I’ve had time to come up for air, it’s apposite to pause and reflect; and since I’m a serial virtual voyeurist, it is only fitting that I perform the intensely personal reflection in front of my digital peers — [...]

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I’m running some professional development courses in Sydney just before the ad:tech conference.
On Monday March 10th I’m running an all day workshop on Social Media, ‘Social Media 101‘. Then on Tuesday 11th I’m running a full-day workshop on Social Media Strategy.
Here’s some more details about the courses:
Social Media 101 - A Practical ‘How [...]

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I’m really looking forward to this: the ad:tech conference in Sydney, 12+13 March.
I’m moderating a panel on ‘Digital PR’ and my fellow panelists are Steven Noble, Director, Digital, at Hill & Knowlton, Marnie Macdonald, Online Communication Manager at Australian Wool Institute, and Trevor Cook, raconteur, roustabout and famed hamster juggler (and owner of a [...]

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Steven Noble from Hill & Knowlton Australia has very flatteringly asked me to be involved in the ad tech two-day conference in Sydney, March 12-13.
With three separate but overlapping tracks, there’s a stack of goodness on offer at the conference; here’s just a sampling:

Understanding Virtual Worlds
Social Media and CGC: has a value proposition [...]

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My favourite Perth clients, the very funky, whip-smart and industry-leading Clarity Communications, have tied together various mining, sporting and industry companies (I bet they loved it!) and I’m back over to Perth early December for three more days of Social Media hectoring, lecturing and strategising goodness.
Thanks for herding the cats together, Kellie — can’t [...]

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