Links: Marketing, Web 2.0, Management Blogs

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I don’t usually do link posts but I’ve been so busy these last couple of weeks I haven’t had time to write about the following useful links in any detail:

  1. Samuel Dean from Web Worker Daily wrote a post called ‘VTC: Killer Online Tutorials, Mostly Free‘
  2. HR World wrote about the ‘The Top 100 Management and Leadership Blogs That All Managers Should Bookmark‘ [via Trevor Cook]
  3. Jeremiah Owyang presented ‘A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008‘
  4. Ross Dawson, writing in BRW Magazine, listed the ‘Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications‘

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An Exchange Student’s MBS Story

Filed Under b-schools, mba, melbourne business school

R. Suraj, an exchange student from NUS Business School, wrote a very complimentary blog post about his exchange term at Melbourne Business School:

MBS was a great learning experience for me. I interacted with people from across the world and across age groups. Latin Americans to Europeans to Australians to Asians…

Glad you had a great time, Suraj. All the best with your MBA.

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I Have a Job!

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So I haven’t been posting much recently. Why? Because I have a job! Indeed, as of last Wednesday, I am the Online Coordinator (OC) at Linfox.

Linfox, for those of you who don’t know, is Australia’s second-largest logistics and supply chain company, earning over AU$2bn in revenues last year. It employs over 16,000 people, owns over 5,000 vehicles, has over 1.8 million square meters of warehousing space, runs 2 airports, and operates out of 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Yes, it’s big. Not quite as big as Deutsche Post, of course, but it’s getting there. Oh, and it privately owned. (More fun trivia on Linfox in a future blog post, perhaps…like how it transported eight elephants last year and how, every year, it does all the logistics for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix.)

Based in the Communications department, the OC’s role has two main components:

This job is also an excellent next step for my career: it puts me well on my way to becoming a more senior level web strategist/consultant and the Linfox brand is great for my CV.

Why am I concerned about how this job will look on my CV when I’ve only just started it? Because I’m on a three month contract so, two months from now, I’ll be back to looking for another job and preferably a permanent one. Why, then, did I take a three month contract job? Because Linfox and the OC role were not to be missed. Opportunities like this do not come along often and I’m really happy to have been selected for this one.

Of course, what this means for me in a practical sense is that I have a great deal to do in the short time that I’m here. Fortunately, having come off the MBA program at Melbourne Business School, I should be able to handle the speed, pressure, and volume of work quite well. (Thanks, MBS!)  Meanwhile, the role will also give me the opportunity to apply all that I learnt from courses like E-Commerce, Information Strategy, Brand Management, Managing People for High Performance, Negotiations, and Leadership.

So here I am. Let the, er, online coordinating begin!

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UniMelb & MBS on iTunes U

Filed Under b-schools, melbourne business school, social media

The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Business School’s podcasts are now available on iTunes University (link opens in iTunes).

[Via Joshua Gans]

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Journey Around Leadership

Filed Under courses, life, melbourne business school

One of my favourite professors at Melbourne Business School is Amanda Sinclair. I took her Leadership course and, some weeks ago, attended one of her public lectures on leadership, called ‘Journey Around Leadership‘, that is now available online (both audio and video). It’s a great lecture that I highly recommend you watch.

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