I wanted to take this chance to highlight one of the programs I had mentioned in last weeks post, Coorpacademy. The reason I wanted to bring this up is because it highlights one of the topics mentioned this week regarding the use of turning learning into a game. You can take such parts like your own personal score: Or you can view how you are doing up against colleagues: And even challenge your colleagues to a one-on-one to completing courses. This has lead to a great amount of interest in the learning activities presented here, especially with the backing of leadership in the company to have your colleagues find things they are interested in. While they learn these skills they can apply them to their work, reflect the ideas back on each other and further use what each other knows to become more proficient with application of the skill rather than just the knowledge of it. If you're looking for a resource available for your local or even international organization I believe t
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When I look at what some blogs offer, I notice some say to do things, but rarely go into endorsing something in particular. Whether this has some implications for businesses or not I don't know at this point, but there are some tools that my business has used that I would like to take this week to highlight. SharePoint I've been using SharePoint for the past few years as a tool to provide group workspaces, a document library, document management, auto-mailer and a few other specialty tools. Granted I am using an older version but I have also used the newer SharePoint Online which opens up to communication between other Microsoft Office products as well (moreso that I am used to). You can give users their own logins into this collection, enable it to be through a certain connection (your building) or open it up to wherever you have access to the internet (this latter for better use/functionality for your team). I think to fully use this program it takes more than just one u
Growing up through my generation I've watched Yahoo Groups, AIM, MSN Messenger, MSN Games, MySpace, and so on and so forth come and go through my life. Much of my experience was short-lived unless I actually was active with someone through one of these ideas, such as joining a group to talk about a game or a book series (or MUD, a Multi-User Dungeon). This all leads up to our most recently popular items: Twitter, Facebook, SnapChat, BlogSpot, so on and so forth to name just a few that come to mind immediately. Each of these barely come within an inch of my notice, but with the re-focus in these programs I have found they are not the same thing I remember from when they first started. This week we are focusing on Twitter and how it's used to reach out and meet, greet and respond between consumers and a business. This, some might not know, can be a very serious issue. Tweets can be saved, re-tweeted, shared and dispersed elsewhere across the internet, so if you're not pr
Honestly when I encountered the idea of using an RSS Feed I was skeptical, I was stuck in the old way of doing things when technology could have been helping me along (I believe I did once accidentally sign up for an RSS feed regarding a site, but most of my experience is getting a daily newsfeed e-mailed to me rather than every published article at my fingertips). I definitely know there are things that really hold me back from embracing some of these shortcuts, and specifically getting newsfeeds from places I frequent should be one of those shortcuts I take rather than having to seek them out every single day. For my Feedly I signed up for a few Food Business sites, one for MoodTracker that my company uses to send out surveys infrequently, the SHRM blog, of course my classmates and even a few places I've found through connections on my LinkedIn. I think one of the major items that I've noticed is Feedly will help keep track of how active a source actually is, so if there
When I think back to the last thirteen years of my work experience, especially when I was working with customers and suppliers I try and count out how many of them I had. This average comes out to be about 100 - 150 through each. They all would like to get something else out of our interactions and establish a rapport as we continue to do more and more business. How can they get a hold of you? Typically through e-mail or a phone call. How do they know how to get a hold of you, probably one of the very first things you do when joining a new company would be to establish that. Gordon Paustian, Regulatory Specialist XLXL Inc. Ph: (208) 900-0229 Fax: (208) 900-0227 E-mail: gordonpaustian@xlxlinc.com This is simple enough to get you started, but as your network grows and you continue to work with individuals you can add more things on to this. In some jobs there are other titles you can take that establish you are part of an organization, for Human Resources specialists there'