Professional Development

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• Social Media and the IT Professional - Are You a Match?
• Reaction Management and Self-facilitation Techniques

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Social Media and the IT Oprofessional - Are You a Match?
Marty Foltyn
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Is Social Media, with all its possibilities – and pitfalls – a good match for your organization? Are you weighing the pros and cons of integrating social media, and how to propose an implementation strategy – if at all?  In this lively and interactive SNIA Professional Development tutorial, learn about the strengths and shortcomings of popular social media tools and where they might fit in to your professional development, and that of your organization.    Examine how companies have attempted to implement social media strategy and policy in their organizations and better understand their successes, common pitfalls, and roadblocks.  Learn how to define a strategy, and gain tips and techniques to get started.

Learning Objectives

• Better understand how to define a social media strategy and tactics (or not) for you and your organization. 2. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of social media tools that business can use in their social media strategy.
• Better understand how to define a social media strategy and tactics (or not) for you and your organization. 2. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of social media tools that business can use in their social media strategy.
• Better understand the opportunities and risks involved in an organization’s social media implementation via case studies of organizations in a variety of vertical markets who have considered social media implementations for their organizations.

Reaction Management and Self-facilitation Techniques
David Deming
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There are two possible rejoinders to every event in our lives: a reaction or a response. Reactions are based on things that trigger our anger or make us upset. Reactions are controlled by a part of our brain called the amygdala - our emotiona control center. Responses are managed by the executive function of our brain known as the frontal lobes. Reactions are fueled by past repressed emotions, thoughts, or feelings and typically erupt at the most inconvenient times (e.g. at a meeting with the boss). This session will provide you with an overview of why we get pissed off and what we can do to manage our reactions. This session provides an overview of the concepts of Auto-ego and Aware-ego and how our choices are influenced by the constant struggle between unconsciousness (reactions) and consciousness (awareness - responses).

Learning Objectives

• Understand the basic function of the amygdala and how it influences our reactions. Exposure to numerous methods that can be used to raise your awareness level of what causes upset and stress in your life. 
• Provide a fundamental understanding of being at the source of your choices verses being at effect of past repressed feelings or emotions
• Practices and techniques that focus on results verses reasons, stories and excuses. Exposeure to a functionally different way to look at life; being at cause/creation (accountable) or being at effect (a victim of circumstances).