Hello Everyone,
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You should know that LinkedIn Profiles are supposed to be profiles of individuals, not companies. However, beneath the radar on LinkedIn 
since March 2008, have been "Company Profiles" that were constructed automatically by merging data from personal profiles and published data from Capital IQ and Business Week. Now you can search for your "company", and you can correct or edit the profile offered, add a company logo, or make a new entry if required.
If you've got a personal profile, under your company name, now is perhaps the right time to change that to a personal profile for yourself and a company profile for your company. See User Agreement Clause 10.B.5 (Don't) Create a user profile for anyone other than a natural person.
Join, Join, Join. New Zealanders have still not discovered the importance of joining many networks. Every one of these newsletters reinforces that message. JOIN. Sometimes that means you need to start a group for people to join. Three examples below from my work in the last two weeks.
There are only about 10 New Zealanders currently engaged with 
"Four Years. GO." This is a very valuable initiative that you can use in your personal life, in coaching and change management and in setting objectives for your company or organisation.
The idea is to create some urgency to make some important change in direction. I've been talking for the last 4 years, about making the future more open. That's the sort of change 4YG, aspires to achieve. Suggested areas where change in direction is desirable are in environmental policy, social justice, economic management, and educational policy. The last 30 years demonstrate that although we know there are deep systematic problems, getting the system to adapt has been difficult, or impossible. Outdated, trapped, and inflexible, political systems in the USA and the UK, are part of the issue. Four years effort NOW, can SHIFT, public knowledge and political objectives to make needed change possible. This begins with each one of us.
There are eight leadership groups in 4YG, each linking via a Wiki, via Social Networks [4YG Blog - Facebook - LinkedIn - YouTube Channel - Wiser Earth - Twitter] and weekly Telephone conferences. The focus right now is to identify change leaders, business coaches, CEO's with a change agenda, public speakers and business training leaders, people who can initiate change agendas in the work they do now. (If this is you, please come back to me.)
4YG will engage with those people and evaluate the professionalism and intent of the expertise offered. They will help to plan a "SHIFT Initiative". (Working with the group you usually work with.) That "Shift Initiative" will be initiated and tested. Successful initiatives will be identified and expanded. To find out more first Join 4YG.
Why not start with the people you meet every day? Are they online? Are they using social networks online? If they have a business interest are they LinkedIn members?
Here's a help page for new LinkedIn members: http://www.openfuture.co.nz/linkedin/
You can join up to 50 LinkedIn Groups (Search using keywords about your interests). I strongly suggest that you join at least 10, and maybe as many as 50. Have you invited all your NZ related LinkedIn connections to join Kiwi Scrum?
Are YOU going to take the initiative and start an email list in your own street? I did this in my street two years ago. There was quite a lot of suspicion and distrust in the beginning. (Write to me and I'll give you more detail). Once I found the right method, lots of people allowed their names to be entered. In the beginning nothing much happened. That's not true today. The list is active and very useful. This is work only a VOLUNTEER can do. Are you the one?
You need to be a MEMBER, recognised as a member by others, before you can really be effective in any group. Long term membership of a group establishes your credibility. You also need to be active occasionally, making yourself visible. Create your groups BEFORE you need them.
My engagement with 4YG, has helped me to meet a new group of leaders acting on a world stage. In the process I've been invited to use my LinkedIn expertise to assist that effort.
My membership of Canterbury Issues, has informed me about the disestablishment of the Canterbury Regional Council. I've attended several public meetings in Christchurch about that.
Two years ago our street created a "Street List" using "Online Groups". The value of that list is developing. Near midnight, on Friday 7 May, 20 neighbours were on our street, sweeping up the broken glass and rubbish littering the street, after a teenage party got out of hand and 60 youths started a drunken brawl. Since then there has been a valuable discussion on the list identifying the causes or the brawl, and the ways we might remedy this problem. This is a "TO DO" activity for you all. Start a local list for your area.
More interesting news next month,
John Stephen Veitch
The Network Ambassador
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