Hello Everyone,
Kiwi Scrum has 1688 members. You can invite a friend to join now.
Linkedin® has recently updated 
the User Agreement. Several parts of that agreement are regularly broken by users. (Including myself.)
In particular NOTE, that LinkedIn® profiles are only for natural people and not for companies, associations or groups. (Part 10, B) clause 5.
You need to be careful about representing yourself as a LinkedIn® Trainer, unless you are accredited by LinkedIn® (Part 10, B) clause 7.
You are not to use any cartoon, symbol, or drawing in your profile. A head-shot photograph is required. (Part 10, B) clause 25.
You are not to put content in fields other than that intended by LinkedIn®. Phone numbers and email addresses are NOT permitted in the Name of Headline fields, (as is commonly done) but they go further they say those details may NOT be in your profile ANYWHERE. (Part 10, B) clause 28c.
Read (Part 10, B) clause 24. in conjunction with (Part 10, B) clause 28f. We might talk about that next time.
Government action to dis-empower Environment Canterbury because of disputes over water resource allocation has been to of the news here in Canterbury at least. I want to highlight the Canterbury Public Issues Forum. The only local Public Issues Forum in the country. This forum has been discussing Canterbury Water for three years. Members are very well informed. I think it's the general view of members that Environment Canterbury, starting from a very long way behind the issue, was actually beginning to do an excellent job. I expect, that STRENGTH is the "problem" to be defeated.
I've recommended before that you take steps to establish your own local online forums. Too late, by 3 or 4 years, to begin after your issue arises. As in networking, build your network FIRST. Make connections, long before you need them. Get to know the people in your network. Talk to them. Build your knowledge, FIRST. Although most of the people in the Canterbury Issues Forum have never met, face to face, we know each other pretty well. They will work together when the time comes.
I've recently begun to work with a programme called Four Years. Go. 
Our real strength as individuals arises from the work we do together in groups. More detail about the 
Four Years. Go. programme in my web site.
There is a 4YG group on LinkedIn® too, and many related groups, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, many Sustainability and otherwise "green" groups. Why all this focus on the environment? Because taxes on "bad's" are coming quickly, like it or not, before 2014 in some places. Product labels will require carbon footprint ratings quite soon. No rating, or a poor rating = no market. It's taken 48 years (Since 1972) to achieve almost nothing. 16 years since Agenda 21 in Rio. Four Years. Go. is the message.
48,000 NZ members of LinkedIn®. (My estimate) 1688 members in Kiwi Scrum. Time to get busy, there's lots of work to do, and the bigger circle of people involved, and the closer we are to each other the better. Look around your own office. Who's not yet a Kiwi Scrum member? Who's still got less than 100 LinkedIn connections? Those people need YOUR help.
The government objective of playing GDP catch-up to Australia is a wrong target. Thinking that's 30 years outdated. GDP is a rubber measure, that mixes a whole lot of good's and bad's together, and calls them "progress" if the number is growing. It's a nonsense measure. Help me change it. Lots of good work done in Australia and NZ on this already. Dr. Marilyn Waring, wrote about this in her book "Counting for Nothing". The NZ National Party, CAN do this, and it's very much in their interest. Four Years. GO. again. GDP doesn't tell us when we are really better off or really worse off, except in a very narrow way. Can we change the way we measure economic and social "progress" in FOUR years? Of course we can, if we START now.
The NZ Digital Strategy, has been a fizzer from the beginning. Similar strategies in other places have suffered that fate too. Canada, which was a leader in this field has also failed to achieve it's objectives. Grand plans always go astray, I suppose. But it's amazing what some people are achieving too. I'm talking the top 2% here. People you may never have heard of, who every month achieve more online, than most people do in a year. They are LEARNING. One day you'll know who they are. Most people, and I think every company, is strangled by an inability to learn fast enough. Remember the Knowledge Wave? 9 inches high like the tsunami wave we got after the earthquake in Chile. More to do. It's up to us.
More interesting news next month,
John Stephen Veitch
The Network Ambassador
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