Narcissistic Tuesday: PMPs on FB? OMG!

Ah. First rays of sun. Good day to talk about myself. No, it’s not Wednesday. Not even Friday. Image by Intersection Consulting. This months edition of PM Network magazine has a nice article about Project Managers and Social Media: “PMPs on FB? OMG!“. Even if my name wasn’t mentioned (of course it is ) I …

Using Yammer For Frictionless Communication

In this episode of the Project Shrink podcast Hal Macomber explains how he and his colleagues are using Yammer at Lean Project Consulting (LPC). They are creating “frictionless communication” with this tool that is similar to Twitter. He puts the use of this tool into perspective with the other tools used and currently in use …

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 …

The Project Manager And Social Media (presentation)

At PMI EMEA Congress in Amsterdam earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking about social media. I have updated the slide show and put it on Slideshare for you to see. Presentation: Everything a Project Manager Should Know About Social Media Everything A Project Manager Should Know About Social Media View more presentations …

The PMI Agile Community of Practice

Different circumstances require different project approaches. Sometimes we need a piece of plan-driven, other times we need a bucket of agile. But we are always in need of Project Leaders that know how to handle all available project strategies. That is way I am very excited about the recently founded PMI Agile Community of Practice. …