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PDXTech4Good – Change Management / Engagement & Social Media

Todd Pitt — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:34:20 +0000

Zero Strategist was delighted to have the opportunity to speak about change management / engagement and social media last week at the August PDXTech4Good / Portland NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup at the Lucky Lab. Zero Strategist PDXTech4Good Presentation – Mindmap Download the Mindmap (Zipped .MM Format) [11KB] Don’t have Freemind mindmapping software? No worries! Freemind is JAVA [...]

13,409,950 Reasons Why WordPress

Todd Pitt — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:56:50 +0000

Why Use WordPress? The WP Infographic Makes “The Why” Clear Many people have asked and wondered why so many other’s use WordPress? Everyone asks for case studies etc. Here is the best visual summary / info-graphic that explains exactly why WordPress is awesome and why you should consider it as a strong option when building [...]

This Is OSCON – Open Source Convention 2010

Todd Pitt — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:24:50 +0000

[This Is OSCON] OSCON 2010 – the Open Source Convention was held from July 19th-23rd at the Oregon Convention Center in downtown PDX. As a convention that claims to be all open source and stuff we were honestly not quite sure what to expect from this one (we prefer quality over quantity). For claiming to [...]

Community Leadership Summit 2010

Todd Pitt — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:30:32 +0000

ZS journeyed down to the Oregon Convention Center to participate in day two the Community Leadership Summit 2010 which is a bar camp / open spaces style unconference meeting of the minds for community management and community managers. Community people flew in from as far away as Denmark and Russia for this event, it was [...]

Social Media Day PDX 2010

Todd Pitt — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:47:17 +0000

The first Social Media Day happened on June 30th 2010 as a global #SMday event / meetup series organized by Mashable. Zero Strategist attended the Portland Social Media Day meetup at the Green Dragon. Social Media Day Portland www.youtube.com/watch?v=05KI-dI1LEI What does social media mean to you? “Social media means that people and technology are becoming [...]

PDX Net2 Camp

Todd Pitt — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:40:42 +0000

Zero Strategist participated in the PDX Net2 Camp on Friday, leading an open session on Nonprofit/Social Media Change Management. The event was a good time with convergent conversation and we were glad there was lively and open participation in all of the sessions. We especially enjoyed the community management and data visualization sessions in particular. [...]

Association 2.0 – Social Media For Associations

Todd Pitt — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:41:44 +0000

Recently Zero Strategist has been asked by several different industry leaders and CEOs about the future of Social Media and Associations. This is a concise mile high view of the the direction that things are headed, with some free web strategy targeted at Association managers and leaders. Of course this is just the tip of [...]

#4Change May Twitter Chat Topic: Enterprise 2.0

Todd Pitt — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:34:33 +0000

Bringing web 2.0 / social media technologies into the businesses and organizations can be a massively disruptive change. Engaging in Enterprise 2.0 can change workflows, communications, software development cycles, knowledge management, governance models, organizational hierarchy, management styles, culture/sub-culture, worker mentalities, intelligence/research, processes, security protocols, human resources, policies/guidelines, recruiting/retention, pr/marketing and many more aspects of the [...]

Twitter Attacked Again – Zero Followers

Todd Pitt — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:50:08 +0000

Today the uber popular social media microblog site Twitter is under attack…again. This time a hacker has found a chink in twitter’s security and exploited it to allow a user to control who follows them. This is a major security failure and we are not quite sure how all of this will turn out yet. [...]

Prosci Change Management Conference 2010 – Day 1

Todd Pitt — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:21:51 +0000

Todd Jick – Opening General Session Changes in Change Management: A 25 Year Retrospective on Change Todd Jick of Columbia Business School and opened with a keynote that was a call to action and a direct challenge to change managers. Jick talked about how the language of change management was shifting and how it has [...]