Professional Development

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• Can U B Social? Defining Social Media for Your Organization
• Reaction Management and Self-facilitation Techniques
• Building Magnificent Technical Presentations

The Abstracts

Can U B Social? Defining Social Media for Your Organization
Marty Foltyn, Diana Eastty
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Are you weighing the pros and cons of integrating social media into your organization?  In this session, learn about the strengths and shortcomings of popular social media tools.  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 your strategy, and gain tips and techniques to get started.

Learning Objectives

• Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of social media tools that businesses 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). 

Building Magnificent Presentations
Howard Goldstein
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Soft Skills Development for the Technical Professional is often overlooked   and underestimated in terms of the critical skills needed by technical professionals for success.  Like a computer system requiring both hardware and software to provide system benefits, technical professionals need hard skills and soft skills in their Professional Development.     This seminar provides an entertaining and informative set of practical tips and tricks that technical presenters can incorporate and addresses traps that they can fall prey to.  This as a practical approach to integrating commonly used tools and improving both the presentation creation and delivery of technical topics that will appeal to a large segment of SNW attendees.  The ability to build clear technical messages and to communicate those messages is as important as the message itself.

 Learning Objectives

• It’s given by a practicing technical professional with teaching and presentation experience   
• It provides real world, personal examples of “what to do” and “what not to do” It provides training aimed at technical professionals to improve their presentation creating and delivery skills