Why Should You Care About Social Media?

At the recent PMI Global Congress in Orlando I did a presentation together with Cornelius Fichtner (ThePMPodcast.com) and Josh Nankivel (pmStudent.com). We focused on demonstrating the use of new tools to manage virtual teams and allow them to collaborate. We used Skype, Vyew.com and Google Docs to show how to work effectively with virtual teams and solve problems faster by integrating “out of town” experts.

You can watch our presentation in episode 31 of The Project Shrink Podcast.

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This presentation was the first part of a larger session called “Why Should You Care About Social Media?” This session was presented by members of the PMI New Media Council. In the next weeks I will be posting presentations about Yammer, Personal Branding and cautionary tales using social media.

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Comments (5)

  1. craig wrote::

    Nice.

    Something in that clip remided me of Joh Cleese and the Monty Python crew. Maybe the cheeese shop?

    Monday, October 19, 2009 at 7:45 pm #
  2. Soma wrote::

    Awesome video Baas!

    Monday, October 19, 2009 at 9:42 pm #
  3. Bas de Baar wrote::

    Hahaha. @Craig: being the longest person in the room, I am afraid I know who reminded you of Cleese :)

    @Soma: Thanks!

    Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 5:48 am #
  4. Craig Brown wrote::

    Hey check this; http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/10/why_the_internet_is_so_distrac.html

    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:51 am #
  5. Bas de Baar wrote::

    @Craig: interesting read. you’ll like the part of the session in which we talks about the negative aspects of social media. Should be online in a couple of weeks.

    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 9:04 am #