Professional Development

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• Strategies to Success: Part 2 Now What?
• "Where did I put that?" - Helping to better manage your digital life
• Leveraging Social Media in Your Organization

The Abstracts

Strategies to Success:  Part 2 Now What?
David Deming
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In the last seminar of this series we learned how our brain functions when we are stressed and in reaction verses when we are calm and being responsible. We learned about our brainwaves and how to access calmness and creativity through breathing and meditation. This time we will go deeper to look at what causes reactions and how to stop yourself from going there, at least most of the time.     You will learn how to  empower yourself to deal with the tension in your life rather than being a victim of circumstances. If you didn't make the last seminar don't worry I will recap it before we get into the new material.

Where did I put that?" - Helping to Better Manage Your Digital Life
Rich Ramos
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Have you ever said "where did I put that"?     Do you ever feel like the amount of digital information you have is out of control?   Do you ever feel like you are not as productive as you could be due to the lack of a good digital organization system?     The purpose of this session is to help alleviate those problems through the sharing of:  1) best practices, 2) software tools & devices, 3) tips & tricks    In the areas of:  4) Personal Productivity   5) Digital Organization   6) Digital Communication

Learning Objectives

• Come away with an understanding of how to better organize your digital information and your workflow. 
• If equipment in room permits, have a live demo of some of the concepts & tools.

Leveraging Social Media in Your Organization
Diana Eastty, Marty Foltyn
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Today's X-generation infused workforce is comfortable and confident with social media in their non-professional lives and want the same access while on the job.   As IT professionals, how do you- or can you- effectively bring these new methods of communication into your organization?  When should you make the case for social media?  And what are the right uses for social media in the organization?      

This tutorial will review popular social media tools and discuss the issues involved in opening the organization to social media, with illustrations of how a company can leverage these tools for business practices.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the social media tools that can be used to match your objectives and how to engage with online influencers.
• Better understand the opportunities and risks involved in an organizational's social media implementation