Friday, September 11, 2009

More Than Virtual Action!

Dear Managers and Leaders!

Have you noticed how the Internet can be a good place for discussion? With all the social sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other virtual communities, it is really easy to spend days and nights just staring at a computer reading or discussing with virtual friends. This is all good, but I find that what is missing from all these sites is action. It is so easy to live inside our brain, sharing ideas, photos, and telling people what is going on in our life in 140 characters or less that we often forget to do something!

Social sites bring together people with enormous possibilities! But the sad thing is that this potential rarely translates into actions that are beneficial to the real world. It is not true of all the sites and what I want to do today is to highlight an exceptional event that happened on 09/09/09. I announced this leadership webathon on this blog last Tuesday. Can you imagine 21 consecutive webinars about leadership delivered in 21 hours? Isn’t it INCREDIBLE? It was incredible! The special thing about this webathon is that its organizer, Kwai Yu, and all presenters are part of 2 related virtual communities.

The first of these communities is the Leaders Cafe Foundation that has a virtual presence as a very active group on LinkedIn. You can find it here. The second one is the Differencemakers virtual community led by Ian Berry. It can be found here.

So, if you want to join virtual communities that are doing more than just chatting on the net, you should definitely consider joining these two special communities. I am certainly glad and proud I am part of them. They are dynamic communities, dedicated to DOING something to make this world a better place.

Until next time,

Remi Cote

PS: If you find these postings interesting and would like to learn more about what I can do for you and your team, then please visit www.innovachron.com or contact me directly at remi@innovachron.com.

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