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HPT competencies mirror Social Media management competencies?

Check out this list of competencies for an HPT professional as listed in the HPI Essentials book (by ASTD press): Analysis Skill Business Knowledge Change Management Skill Facilitation Skill HPI Understanding Influencing Skill Project Management Skill Questioning Skill Relationship-Building Skill Systematic Thinking Skill It also lists these attributes: Behavioral Flexibility Comfort with Ambiguity Objectivity Self-Confidence [...]

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We need a root cause analysis of the gender in IT problem

The statistics speak for themselves. 24% of professional IT jobs are held by women, even though 57% of professional jobs are held by women In 2008, 56% of all AP test-takers were female, 51% who took the calculus AP test were female, but only 19% of the Computer Science test takers were female. In 2008, [...]

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Fall Semester Starts Tomorrow

Fall semester starts tomorrow. Part of me is anxious, mostly because I am already so busy I’m not sure what my class load is going to do to my life. But the other part of me is really excited. I was one of those nerds who loved going back to school because it meant you [...]

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