12/14/10 RENEWAL DAY - Cancelled
Kate-Madonna Hindes
Humanizing Social Media 
For effective utilization of social media, proficiency in state-of-the-art technology is not enough. We're only as good as the authenticity behind that technology. At first glance, thousands of followers on twitter may look impressive, but the conversations and connection's behind today's best Social Networking tools are exactly what matter most.
Among the things you will learn from this session are:
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How to closely examine your campaigns and address the simple solution to success in the electronic market … Authenticity.
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Analytical tools and Best Practices for measuring Social Media success accurately.
Drawing upon case studies from two separate Fortune 500 companies, Kate will show you how to set yourself apart with collaborative intelligence, using your audience to sell who you are for you.
Kate, the founder of GirlMeetsGeek, a social media consulting firm, believes that the human passion behind today’s technology is the most important tool of all. She is an expert on emotional integrity and the incredible power of authenticity in today’s market.
Jim Ruprecht
Windward Leadership: Rigging Teams for Competitive Advantage
Jim Ruprecht, Founder and CEO of Windward Leadership, provides an enlightening and engaging overview of field-tested lessons for leading durable change in today's political, neurotic, time-starved, and resource-poor organizations.
Jim's 30+ year career has been spent creating new organizations, renovating under-performing ones, and invigorating ones that had been neglected.
In doing so, Jim has studied under marquis authorities in the fields of leadership and organizational change. More importantly, he has taken their concepts and theories and put them into real-life practice in the organizations he has led--he has taken them from the lab to the field. In this presentation, Jim will share some of the key lessons that have served him well; examples include:
- Leadership abuses and usurpations.
- Qualities of true leadership.
- The organizational socio-technical system.
- Aligning those things that lead to the success of the organization and those things that lead to the success of the individual.
- Pragmatic definitions, models and tools for understanding the non-linear nature of any organization's culture, while planning and cultivating change to it in a methodical way.
Able to communicate naturally with people at all ranks, Jim does so in a clear and distinctive voice -- one that is sometimes provocative, occasionally irreverent, but always avoiding that safe, sophisticatd, academic language that is so prevalent today, and is used more often to camouflage meaning than it reveal it.
Click here to learn more about Jim.