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Join the Virtual Working Summit!

June 16, 2010

Is your project team scattered all over the place, and most of your meetings done on the phone? Many project managers lead a virtual team and getting the best out of people and their time can be a challenge when you are not based in the same office. You can learn how to do work [...]

Event: Social Media for Project Managers

May 31, 2010

I’ll be presenting to the APM’s Women in Project Management SIG on 10 June, and you are invited. We’ll be talking about how project managers can use social media. I’ll be presenting this: There’s a revolution happening in project management: social media tools are finding their way from branding and marketing to the hub of [...]

Book review: Friends with Benefits

November 18, 2009

What a great title for a book about social media marketing. No Starch Press has a habit of turning out great books – I’ve recently reviewed Growing Software: Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers: Big Strategies for Managing Small Software Companies for The Computer Journal and that was also a fabulously produced, attractive and interesting [...]

Project managers on Twitter

November 2, 2009

Who are the project managers on Twitter? This video was shot at the PMI Global Congress North America, where I met some of the project managers behind the ‘@’ signs. You can follow us all by searching for #pmot on Twitter.

A blogging lunch

February 16, 2009

I had lunch today with Soma and her sister. It’s Soma’s first trip to the UK and she has been out and about seeing the sites of London: Buckingham Palace, the parks, the London Eye, a river cruise – packing more tourist things into 10 days than I have in the 18 months I have [...]

Blogging your job

January 28, 2009

There has been a fair amount of coverage in the UK press about the expectations of young people going into the workforce, especially around the services and provisions that their new employers should make. Social networking is one of the options that new entrants to the workplace expect to have switched on. The relationship works [...]

Keeping up: Steps in the right direction

December 8, 2008

This is the last in a four-part series on how project management is facing up to the challenges of the 21st century business environment. I am noticing a shift towards working in a more 21st century way. The focus for many recruiters is now on people who can demonstrate emotional intelligence (read more about that [...]

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