Posted in General on Feb 2nd, 2012
You can follow me at @wcl_Marilyn
These are all links to tweets I’ve been reading and thought useful
Delighting the Highly-Social Customer, Part 1 (Brian Solis) 5 Trends that will change CRM & customer relationships (Brian Solis) Fast Company interview with high tech entrepeneur (NZ Innovation) and How To Keep Your Company’s Data Safe, And Under Control
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Posted in General, Recent picks on Jan 24th, 2012
What works : success in stressful times / Hamish McRae.“Hamish McRae’s What Works: success in stressful times is a welcome and rare change. Think of this book as a broader view on In Search of Excellence as the book contains 20 examples of success taken from around the world. The examples range from the slums [...]
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Posted in General on Jan 10th, 2012
This overview was released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics at the end of December 2011. “There are two components to this release: web based information and datacubes” covering household and personal use of the internet
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Posted in General on Jan 10th, 2012
Harvard Business School has provided a link to the fulltext of the most popular articles and working papers it published in 2011. Leadership appeared to be the most popular topic. There are some great articles here.
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Posted in General on Jan 10th, 2012
Thanks to everyone who reads this blog. My aim is alert you to resources available at Wellington City Libraries and also available online. Let’s hope that 2012 is a less traumatic disaster ridden year, and that it proves to be a successful year for you and/or your business.
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Posted in General, Recent picks, management on Dec 19th, 2011
Planning and managing a corporate event / Karen Lindsey.Includes the Ultimate Tick List, A-Z Survival Guide, 50 Top Tips and Useful Contacts. This book provides comprehensive and expert guidance on planning and managing a Warner Music Entertainment corporate event. It is written as a support text for students studying event management and to provide a [...]
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Posted in General on Dec 19th, 2011
This report (5 MB) from Awareness Networks comes from the thoughts of 34 influential business and marketing leaders giving their insights and prognosis. It is a must read for anyone in business. The report is split into several parts including:
1 Predictions for the biggest (social) marketing developments
Part 2 The role of “big data” in (social) marketing
Part [...]
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Posted in General on Dec 15th, 2011
Hamish Mexted is not your usual Chartered Accountant, and he writes a great blog . I heard Hamish speak at a recent BNZ Connect meeting and he was articulate, interesting and thinks out of the box. He’s based in Wellington . Here’s an example of his blog writings ”You need to identify where it is [...]
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Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2011
This is a list of the books which have impressed him recently. Of these the Wellington City Libraries hold
The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu.,
I’m feeling lucky : the confessions of Google employee number 59 / Douglas Edwards.
and The consuming instinct : what juicy burgers, Ferraris, pornography, and [...]
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Posted in General on Nov 2nd, 2011
This report the 2011/2012 Towers Watson North American Talent Management and Rewards Survey is based on a survey of organizations conducted between May-June 2011 and is a collaboration between Towers Watson and Worldatwork. The ”report focuses on trends in reward and talent management programs, accompanied by our related insights to drive effective design and delivery” and [...]
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