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Join Ryan J Melton in an insightful conversation with Rebecca Caroe, the voice behind 'Creative Agency Secrets', on the latest episode of NZ Business Owners podcast. As a B2B strategic marketing and digital business specialist, Rebecca brings 12 years of experience in the field, having worked in Australasian, European, and US markets. Her expertise lies in tactical digital marketing, search engine marketing, and direct response copywriting, making her the go-to person for businesses looking to enhance their marketing strategies and outcomes. But that's not all. Rebecca's deep-rooted passion for rowing has played a significant role in her life. From rowing at Cambridge University to serving as an Independent Adviser for the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club for 24 years, her involvement in the sport is extensive. In fact, she even commentated for the BBC at the 2012 London Olympics. With a wealth of knowledge as a volunteer rowing coach and a former Director of Rowperfect UK Ltd, Rebecca understands the transformative power of rowing and how it can be applied to business and team building. In 2013, she launched the 'RowingChat' podcast, where she explores the parallels between high-performance sports and business success. With a combined global audience of 250,000+, Rebecca's podcasts have become a go-to resource for those seeking to unlock their potential and build remarkable brands and teams. During the podcast episode, Rebecca shares her insights on the rapidly evolving digital landscape and the importance of continuous learning. She discusses her connections with influential thought leaders and innovators, such as Don Peppers, Mitch Joel, Blair Enns, and Euan Semple, who have shaped her understanding of B2B marketing and provided valuable tools for businesses. But Rebecca's expertise extends beyond marketing. She emphasizes the significance of good governance in building robust businesses and draws from her experience of growing and selling her own global e-commerce business. As a board member of Rose & Thorne, she remains at the forefront of the latest marketing and business technologies, bringing analytical, communication, and practical problem-solving skills to the table. With her dedication to helping others, Rebecca has served as a business mentor for Lightening Lab and Innes48, supporting and nurturing aspiring entrepreneurs. As an accomplished public speaker and educator, she regularly delivers keynotes, workshops, and seminars, sharing her wealth of knowledge with enthusiastic audiences. Tune in to this engaging episode as Ryan J Melton and Rebecca Caroe dive deep into the world of B2B marketing, rowing, personal growth, and the secrets to thriving in today's dynamic business environment. https://creativeagencysecrets.com/
Can driving a truck help you become a better writer? Euan Semple is living proof that sometimes, at least, doing something that's not related to writing can result in ... better writing!Euan has been a leader and an influencer in the ever-changing field of digital technology for two decades. An early adopter of social media he implemented one of the world's first enterprise social network systems inside the BBC. He also ran BBC DigiLab, a department whose purpose was to help the BBC understand new technologies across the range of its activities and make better decisions about their use and implementation. Euan left the BBC in 2006 to establish his own consultancy and has subsequently worked around the world with an amazing range of organizations including BP, The World Bank, The European commission, and Volvo. His work with them has been to help stretch their thinking about digital transformation in all its forms and to ensure that they end up doing the right things for the right reasons.Euan is the author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do: A Manager's Guide to the Social Web, and it's my great pleasure to have him on this episode of the podcast!
The internet and digital communications technology has become fundamental to our way of life in the last year. A fast and reliable broadband connection has been vital in feeding ourselves, entertaining ourselves, educating our children and continuing to work during the pandemic. We're not going back to the way we were, so how will the internet develop in the future? Today's guests have worked in and around the internet for two decades. Euan Semple started the BBC's DigiLab in the mid 1990s, and now works with organisations and people to help them understand the impact of technology, while Neville Hobson recently left a position with The Internet Society and believes that the internet should be available for everyone. What to do Next Subscribe to the podcast to receive new episodes automatically to your mobile or email. And if you enjoyed today's show, please email it to a friend and/or share it on your favourite social media channels. I'd love to hear from you with any comments or thoughts. I read and reply to every single email, tweet or message. And finally, it would also be very awesome and hugely appreciated if you'd be able to take a moment to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes or Podchaser, as this helps others discover Digital Download. Thanks for listening!
Euan Semple is one of the few people in the world who can turn the complex world of social networking into something we can all understand. And, at the same time, learn how to get the most from it.He is a one-man digital upgrade option for us all to download.This world is changing fast, but he makes sense of it because he understands that the core basics remain the same: community, learning, interaction.He is a master story-teller who offers a host of practical tales about how this new world can work for humans. Assuming, you are one.—Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2010.Watch Euan's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/euan-semple-why-social-network-mess-can-benefit-your-business
This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series. This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Mark Britz has run the gamut of formal, informal and social. He started experimenting with social learning in organisations in 2008 and has delved deep into both people truly are learning in the workspace that they're in and the use of social technology. He and James Tyer are writing a book called called Social By Design. In this episode we walk through the Quick Start Guide to Social Learning@Work which James and Mark created in mid-March. Host: Michelle Ockers Guest: Mark Britz Resources: Social Learning @ Work – Quick Start Guide https://bit.ly/2vRXOoo The Simple Shift – Mark Britz’s blog https://markbritz.com/ James Tyer – LinkedIn People Mark recommends to follow to learn more about social learning at work: Jane Hart (Centre for Modern Workplace Learning) – on LinkedIn and Twitter Harold Jarche – on Twitter and website Clark Quinn – on Twitter and website Euan Semple – on Twitter and website More Episodes & Info: More episodes: https://learninguncut.libsyn.com About the Learning Uncut podcast: https://michelleockers.com/learninguncut/
On this week’s show we have special guest Euan Semple. He tells about his career diversion driving trucks, and how most organisations still haven’t realised that it’s people who tweet. You can find Euan’s book here, and his blog at euansemple.blog. Chris and Matt also talked about the Remote Work Survival Toolkit. You can get […]
Nearly 200 episodes in, we have seen plenty of our own transformations both at Virtual Not Distant and the 21st Century Work Life podcast - and today we explore how organisations are adapting and changing, as the digital landscape does the same. First, a quick follow up from previous episodes - we found this great article about one of our frequently-used collaboration hubs, so make sure you check this out: 30 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Slack could do. And Pilar has been tweeting a lot lately, which was how she connected with today’s guest Euan Semple via his book Organisations Don’t Tweet, People Do. Within this book she found many resonant quotes, including “where possible sharing as much as you can when you are able to do so means that people are more likely to respect you when you say you cannot share some information,” and “Blogging can help people to understand themselves and their work better and by doing so help them to change at a profound and fundamental level” - these words were written in 2013, but resonate so well with our visible teamwork approach in 2019! Do look out for our anniversary episode up next, where we celebrate 200 podcast episode by exploring celebrations in remote teams! And look out for a special offer just for our listeners then. 09.55 21st Century Work Life: Euan Semple, author and speaker on the impact of technology at work Euan has been blogging for 18 years, and shares his words on LinkedIn, Facebook and Medium. He started blogging as a ‘memo to himself’ about the impact of technology at work, but found it resonating with a wider audience. Back in the day you had to know how to use Moveable Type in order to blog, but much has changed in the blogging world, and Euan’s career has spanned most platforms in this fast-moving landscape’s history! He now writes and speaks globally on the impact of digital transformation in the workplace. As Euan says, "It's easier to digitise our dysfunctions than to deal with them." Sometimes we need to fix things at a more fundamental level, before trying to find the right app and fix the tech, and you can’t simply leave it to the IT department to sort out organisational issues. Consumer technology preferences are very personal but organisations make broader choices, and Euan talks about ‘shadow IT’ and how fragmented the work IT landscape has become, with individuals and teams going around official procedures to get things done, and the unforeseen consequences of change. Many users too are struggling to keep up, it’s not generational, it’s about individual transformation and development, and lots of organisations don’t help people enough - then limit the extent to which they can take initiative for themselves. Euan’s work at the BBC has exposed him to a wide range of platforms and apps and the way they are marketed and implemented, and finds it unsurprising that people sometimes buy overpriced and over-engineered systems and then try to fit the organisation to the platform instead of the other way around. An ecosystem approach empowers the user and the organisation, putting the tech in its proper place - and we usually get this right more often in personal tech than at work, where we don’t like to question the way things are done. Hierarchies are inevitable in organisations, but decentralisation is an important trend, and designing that ecosystem requires input from those actually using it, a group which may be forever in flux anyway. Euan likes the phrase ‘an ephemeral meritocracy’ - power and influence in organisations should be relevant and timely, rather than acquired for all time. Changemakers can come from anywhere, and any level. Embracing the advantages of remote work and digital collaboration can also be overlooked, such as the effectiveness of online communication in overcoming introversion and social anxiety. The online conversation can become very polarised, but, it can also be enlightening and amazing, representing the very best of human nature. And we’re all fully rounded human beings with more to us than our online personas… which is why Euan also drives trucks as a sideline (while listening to podcasts and generating creative ideas of course) - giving him a different perspective on roles and authority and collaboration for sure. Ever an optimist, Euan likes to leave people with a sense of infinite possibility - there are opportunities everywhere, so grasp them while we can! So do connect with euansemple.com, @euan on twitter (a handle that length is proof of an early adopter!) 42.49 What do you mean by that? Ethical Walls We spoke to Justin Morris, global strategy director of Modality Systems, to explain this idea: Sometimes in business there can be conflicts of interest when two parts of an organisation talk to one another, and this might apply particularly in highly regulated industries. This might have been managed physically in the past - such as by keycard access. Now this phenomenon is mirrored in the online workspace in Microsoft Teams, where information barriers called ‘ethical walls’ can be inserted, to stop specific teams and individuals communicating with each other. Pilar’s initial reaction to this update was instinctively negative - what about trust, integrity..? However as Justin points out in this conversation, there are very real compliance needs in many circumstances, to avoid possibilities of breaches like insider trading or client confidentiality, and organisations have to be able to demonstrate they have addressed the problem structurally to the best of reasonable ability. The flatter hierarchies that Euan talked about above can over-facilitate conversations which are not appropriate to specific kinds of highly regulated work. Creating a trustless environment actually protects the individuals as well, both from temptation and easy accusations - while such barriers can presumably be circumvented, this would have to be deliberate and overt. Look out for a bonus episode with Justin shortly for more on this subject, and meanwhile you can connect with him on Twitter and LinkedIn, and his website Digitalteamwork.tv 49.33 Wellbeing: Beyond work-life balance Knowledge workers have so many tools and devices, it can be difficult to disconnect and unplug. It was easier when we could leave it all behind in the office, as we did a generation ago. But do we feed that always-on mentality, and risk becoming addicted to our continual conversation with and about work? Does it make us feel valued and connected? How easy do you find it to avoid checking your phone in the evenings or at the weekend? Are you the master of your alerts - or is it the other way around? Everyone finds their own preferred balance, but you need to decide for yourself and be intentional about it, instead of letting default notification settings or the expectations of collaborators dictate what you are thinking about and dealing with in your own time? We need to talk about how we feel as well as what we think, and be conscious about our boundaries. Don't forget to check out Virtual Not Distant, for our newsletter, blog and services, if you enjoyed this podcast.
After introducing the new podcast, Euan Semple and Paolo Valdemarin chat about AI, regulating technology companies, the future of computing and how we should all be careful about the future of artificial intelligence.
Highlights from the last few Extraordinary Business Book Club episodes, with a focus on fixing the problem every writer cares about: how to get going and keep going. I guarantee you'll find at least one idea here that will get you unstuck, and one thing to make you go 'ew'. Denise Duffield-Thomas on not waiting for permission and not being afraid to reuse your best stuff Paul Skinner on the 'symbiotic relationship' between business and book Barbara Gray on embedding writing into your business Campbell Macpherson on the joy of going 'blah' Jonah Sachs on great questions and flow theory David Burkus's end-to-end research and writing system Roger Mavity on weather-dependent writing and perseverance Sarah Kessler on the important of NOT writing Euan Semple on why a book is like a plook, and the power of the timer
Think that what you say on the internet has no impact? Euan Semple says think again. 'An avalanche only ever happens because the last snowflake falls. If it doesn't, an avalanche doesn't happen. Each of our conversations could be a last snowflake.' Despite the fact that he's been blogging for 16 years and has written several successful books, he still recognises the resistance we all feel: 'this is obvious', 'who am I to write this', 'who's going to read this', 'who cares'... But his answer is simply this: 'Just sit down and write it and let other people work at whether it's worthwhile.' Because not only does the process of writing force you to clarify what you think, putting that writing on the internet turns you from a passive consumer to an active participant in shaping our world. (There's also some incredibly practical tips on structuring your book and muscling through procrastination, and possibly the best tagline for this show EVER if I can just summon up the courage to use it...)
Being a digital leader requires more than just implementing technology into your workplace, it requires a fundamental shift in our thinking and practices. Kai Riemer talks to Euan Semple, Anne Bartlett-Bragg and Sandra Peter as they challenge our understanding of the key digital issues facing leadership teams in today's organisations. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. For show notes and links for this episode visit sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts
Being a digital leader requires more than just implementing technology into your workplace, it requires a fundamental shift in our thinking and practices. Kai Riemer talks to Euan Semple, Anne Bartlett-Bragg and Sandra Peter as they challenge our understanding of the key digital issues facing leadership teams in today’s organisations. You can subscribe to this podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard (flip.it/jdwqTP), Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au. For show notes and links for this episode visit sbi.sydney.edu.au/podcasts
In this episode we visit the Change Management Institute conference to understand the latest developments in business transformation practice. The over-riding message was to transform from within not above. Resources: Change Management Institute (CMI) CMI conference Dr Jason Fox (motivation and agility) Helen Blunden (social media knowledge sharing) Euan Semple (people centred organisations) John Husband […] The post SBT007: How to transform from within not above appeared first on Mensard.
This is the first of a series of podcasts from Megan Murray and Euan Semple during which we will be discussing the ins and outs of using the social web for business. We focus mostly on using the tools inside large organisations and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities. We have both had a lot of experience with a wide range of organisations and are keen to discuss the cultures and managerial issues that tend to be forgotten as discussions focus on technology. Apologies in advance for the sound quality of the first few epidsodes - as a former BBC sound engineer you'd have thought I'd have done better! You can download an MP3 of the podcast directly by control-clicking (or right-clicking in Windows) this link.You can also subscribe to the podcast in iTunes
This is an extract from Euan Semple's online presentation for E-learning Networks Community Forum funded by the Australian Flexibile Learning Framework, © Commonwealth of Australia 2007’ . Euan is a well known writer, thinker and public speaker on the subject of social computing (the use of forums, social networking tools, blogs, and wikis). In this podcast he talks about the use of social computing (online forums, social networking tools, blogs, and wikis) in organisations in terms on how the technology impacts on how we work. He describes the path he followed through his work at the BBC and the way it grew as the tools were implemented. He shares his insight into the consequences of using social computing tools in terms on the impact on their organisation, individuals and how we all work within our organisations. Thanks to Euan Semple and E-learning Networks Community Forum funded by the Australian Flexibile Learning Framework, © Commonwealth of Australia 2007’ for giving me permission to take extracts from the online presentation to create this podcast.