Posts Tagged ‘engagement’

December Meeting: Increasing Engagement with Web 2.0 Tools

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Date:  Friday, December 17, 2010

Time:  9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern

Location: Atlanta Community Food Bank, 732 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

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Do you know how to Huddle, LinkedIn and GoToMeeting?  Is OpenACircle in your vocabulary?

Social Media is a term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction and the construction of words, pictures, video and audio. It is a dialogue, not a monologue.

Expert Chad Rosenthal will show how to use Social Media to your advantage. He will share his thoughts, ideas & insights on ways practitioners may use these technologies to increase their effectiveness.

Technology changes the way we interact and communicate.  This presentation outlines ways you can improve your work using the new tools of Web 2.0, Social Media and other new technologies.

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December Meeting: Building a Cooperative Work Environment

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Date:  Friday, December 18, 2009

Time:  9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern

Location:  Atlanta Community Food Bank

Atlanta-based consultant Robert Crow contends that tools like performance appraisals, ranking employees, contests, performance management, commission pay, MBO, and quotas, can have the opposite effect than that desired by management.Rather than stimulate growth, they add drag to the organization such as internal competition and an adversarial working environment.

Thus, the manager using these tools, even with good intention, may instead cause their organization to “crash with the nose up.”

Please join us for a dynamic and thought-provoking experience.

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Notes on The Art of Engagement

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Frances Baldwin presentation at the OCA meeting today on the Art of Engagement was thought-provoking.  Frances encouraged attendees to pay attention to the Art of Hosting and recommended various resources on this topic.