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Cornelius: This is the Project Management Podcast. We bring project management to project management to beginners and experts. Find us on the web at pm-podcast.com or send your emails to info@pm-podcast.com.
Hello and welcome to Episode #162. I am Cornelius Fichtner. This is the Project Management Podcast. Nice to have you with us.
Social media is one of the hot topics these days. As a project manager, you are bombarded with articles and podcasts that talk about social media and how, you, as a project manager should embrace all of these tools.
Really? Isn't social media just another way of just communicating? Do we really need and believe in all of this hoopla and hype? To discuss them a bit more in detail, we met up with Elizabeth Harrin who is the author of the book called, "Social Media for Project Managers."
We discussed how social media is transforming project management these days, how we need to adapt, how social media will drive efficiency in our work, the seven seas of social media and much more. This episode of the Project Management Podcast is sponsored by the PDU Insider.
Well, sort of. Because the PDU Insider isn't really our sponsor. It's a free Web site and newsletter that I launched in July of this year. The mission of the PDU Insider is to provide information and education about professional development units – you know, PDUs – to holders of PMI certificates.
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Before we go to the interview with Elizabeth
So, Terry, before we started recording you predictions for 2011, which will be published in a future episode, you told me that you and Mark Perry have a PMO webcast happening in the near future. Tell us a little bit more about it. Who is if for? What are the topics that you're going to address and how can people sign up?
Terry: Sure. Thanks, Cornelius. Actually, you're exactly right. Mark Perry and I, who have been compatriots here for some years, we tend to think a lot in the same ways and play off each other very well, are planning to do a webcast titled, "The PMO in 2011: Leadership is a Service." on December 16th. And that will be a live webcast.
We're going to talk a little bit, very conversational in nature, about a couple of topics that we think are important for people to be thinking about as they go forward to their 2011 planning and think about what their PMOs really mean for their organizations.
We see a trend in corporate PMOs towards placing more functionality over formality with a reduced emphasis on heavy standards and complex methodologies. We've seen a lot of PMOs shifting to a – if you may – a pull versus push operating approach in terms of being more constituents-focused and service oriented. This is an interesting one, the emergence of virtual and even part-time PMOs.
We're going to look a little bit at new PMO service areas, really getting beyond the idea of the IT project portfolio and the other parts of the business. And why this leadership is a service model that's emerging and what it means for the future of the corporate PMOs.
So, I think, that's going to be very exciting. We're going to draw from some of the input that we got from the 2010 PMO Symposium that was held in November and add our own thoughts to that.
