July 2009 News continued...

Graduates, Students, Staff have you got a business? 

We are keen to promote who you are and what you do - other than study or teach. You may have seen the business card and pamphlet holders located in the Level 2 tea roomof the AGSE. We also place info about discount offers when available and we encourage you to add business cards or your employer’s business cards. Share information and communicate to other members.

Members studying in the BA building:  We would like to hear from you specifically on the best way to ensure we make contact and also creating a presence for the AGSE Alumni Association in your primary study area.

Overseas Members: Please feel free to forward your promotional information to us for display in some manner. Whilst business cards would be ideal and simple for us to manage, if you prefer to forward a promotional brochure pdf or similar, we can consider how to best present this for you in a cost effective manner. Please email agsealumniassociation@gmail.com if you have any queries or suggestions.

The member’s business promotion area, cards etc. is an evolving concept… therefore… Business cards not directly related to our member’s own businesses must be approved by the committee for inclusion, or they will be removed from display pending approval.

It is important – we are sure you will agree – that members can find and talk with each other and open up opportunities through their connection to the AGSE and sharing their own networks & experience. We feel many of you do not know each other. Specifically, our overseas members and "early-years" members are often known from profiles on Linked In ... and this is not good enough!

In order to best help facilitate your ability to talk to each other, we are looking at developing a Wiki.  When you use that forum, you will be able to not only lodge a profile, but comments and select specific "friends" from our database of members. This would be a closed site, thus unlike Linked In, Facebook, You Noodle and other social/business entities. It would be an area members can “bare their soul”, take control of their links, and ask questions without restraint. There would be no worries about damaging your “brand” or employment potential.

I would be delighted to talk with anyone who has either helped set up a Wiki, and/or may be willing to assist with how to go about this most effectively. Please email Karen if you have any advice to provide, either through our AGSE email account or via my own “eternal” email: 5419085@swin.edu.au .

Kangaruni was started a little while back by Tobi Nagy and Bert Vanhoeven - a well-known pair of people if you have been at the AGSE in the past few years. This businesss supports both current international and prospective international students with lots of info about Australia. There are blogs, groups and news items - highly recommended!

Philip Bateman's business. This is Philip's exciting venture which offers support to start up's. He also invites you to join his free newsletter via the link.

The City of Melbourne run a series of free information events which are called “Melbourne Conversations”. You can register for advance notice of events - click the image above.

A new product launching by MEI Graduate, Kelly Magowan, TalentReach uses part-search technology and part-human shortlisting service to bring the best of both world in sourcing executive talent. For more information contact Kelly at kelly.magowan@sixfigures.com.au

Members's submissions are welcomed - click the icons below to not only read some interesting information in it's own right, but also to learn more about what our members are doing in their work.