PM News round-up

Lots of little announcements today.

So What giveaway: last few days

If you haven’t entered the giveaway to win a copy of Mark Magnacca’s book So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience you have until Friday.  Find out how to enter here.

Social Media in a Project Environment survey

I’ve had over 200 responses to my social media for project management survey, which is a lot more than I ever expected!  Thanks, guys.  If you haven’t done it yet, I’ll be closing the survey soon, so please take the time to give me your opinions on how social media can help project managers deliver projects better.  You can enter the survey here.

PMI Events

The dates for the 2010 PMI research and education conference have been announced.  It’s 11-14 July in Washington and this year there will be new interactive sessions.

There’s research funding up for grabs as well, so if you are academically inclined and want to bid for a slice of US$50,000 the call for proposals opens on Monday.

PPOSIG Events

The Programme & Project Support Office Specialist Interest Group (PPSOSIG) has also announced some events.  The new London branch will be meeting on 25 February to discuss the new P3O Practitioner accreditation and Peter Taylor (you know him, the Lazy one) will be making an appearance.  And it’s free!

PPOSIG’s next national conference will be 19 March at the Open University in Milton Keynes.

Is your diary full of project management commitments and events yet?  It should be.  This year networking and sharing skills is going to be even more important, as there are still likely to be job cuts and limits on training budgets as we hobble out of the recession.  So make the most of the free project management events happening near you and online!

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