Sep 18th, 2009 by peggy.oconnor
Twitter, a free social networking and micro-blogging service, asks the question, “What are you doing?” and allows you to send a brief update (limited to 140 characters) to your followers. Twitter helps you reach out to others with similar interests, provides networking potential, and can allow people who can’t attend events, such as ASIS 2009, to gain some value from your experience. Following are five ways you can use Twitter to keep up with what’s happening at ASIS 2009:
- Follow @ASIS2009 to keep current on room changes, session updates, and special promotions. Also, use the hashtag, #ASIS09 in all your tweets to be included in the live tweet stream, http://asistweets.com.
- Schedule meeting ups with like minded people before and during the event.
- Alert other attendees about changes or share details about after-parties or vendor promotions.
- Keep track of what is going on at the event. If you find yourself in a session that isn’t what you had hoped, you can scan the tweets and see if a more appropriate session is taking place.
- Not attending ASIS 2009? Follow the action live with the ASIS Tweet Stream, http://asistweets.com. Ask questions to attendees and speakers who are tweeting or just keep tabs on what’s new and exciting on the show floor!
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Sep 18th, 2009 by peggy.oconnor
Only days before Seminar, Philip S. Deming, CPP, CFE, SPHR, spoke with Security Management about the ASIS Foundation’s Business Watch Program. Funded by a grant from the Department of Justice, the program helps security professionals create cost effective programs and partnerships to increase awareness and institutionalize crime prevention strategies in the workplace and across industries. Deming says the Business Watch program will help private security professionals become strategic business partners within their company, demonstrating value by showing senior management a return on investment. Catch his presentation on the Business Watch Program next week at Seminar.
A 25-year journeyman in the security profession, Deming runs Philip S. Deming & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in human resource and security risk management.
Philip Deming, CPP, CFE, SPHR
What is the Business Watch program? And how does it differ from a Neighborhood Watch program, considering most people are familiar with them?
The Business Watch program was modeled after Neighborhood Watch as an outreach program. It was designed to enhance awareness and institutionalize crime prevention strategies in the workplace, with the support of strategic partners in the community, such as local or state law enforcement and federal agencies. That was the genesis for the program, to get corporations involved in doing their own crime prevention as it relates to their needs and the dynamics of their business. Continue Reading »
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Sep 18th, 2009 by peggy.oconnor
Are you on the fence about becoming ASIS board-certified? Not sure what it entails? Or how to prepare for the exam? Stop by the Certification Lounge, room 304B, to hear real-life experiences and advice from certificants who have been in your shoes:
“The PCI certification brings credibility to my position, especially when dealing with other colleagues and public law enforcement agants. It’s also helpful in front of a judge and jury when I testify in a case.”
Matt L. Aldy, PCI
Senior Special Investigator
Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company
Open during show hours, the lounge is also a great place for those transitioning into the security profession, particularly those in the military and law enforcement, to network while learning how others completed the process.
“As I prepared to transition to a position in the private or public sector, I found my certification to be a great asset. There is a common level of expectation of knowledge and experience associated with certification. To employers, certification reflects a commitment to continued education and development as a person, and to the security profession as a whole.”
Joseph Rector, CPP, PCI, PSP
Lt. Colonel (USAF Retired)
Can’t make it to the lounge? Stop by the ASIS booth (#281) in the exhibit hall, to pickup material and talk with staff.
Tags: certification, CPP, education
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Sep 17th, 2009 by peggy.oconnor
Following, is a post from “Character Counts Opinions and Commentary from Michael Josephson,” Founder of the Josephson Institute. Michael will address ASIS 2009 attendees on Thursday, September 24, from 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 noon.
Michael Josephson
During a seminar on ethics in the workplace, participants spoke about a wide array of unethical conduct they’d witnessed. They talked about high-level employees who lied on internal reports, blatantly took credit for others’ work, and intimidated or abused subordinates. These were clear-cut violations of organizational policy. Yet in most cases, the perpetrators escaped serious sanction.
Executives, who are responsible for upholding organizational standards, seem to find an endless array of excuses to look the other way. Hence, the culture of many private and public institutions reflects a don’t-rock-the-boat, avoid-confrontation-at-any-cost philosophy that undermines integrity and morale.
When managers systematically allow employees to get away with forbidden behavior, they make a mockery of organizational policies and ethical rhetoric. What’s worse, they cultivate seeds of inefficiency and corruption and demoralize employees who do live up to higher standards of personal conduct. Every time we let the bad guys win, we weaken the resolve of dozens of folks who need to know that playing by the rules is not just for suckers.
How many organizations are mired in the quicksand of hypocrisy because they’re led by executives who are too timid or ambitious to demand honorable behavior? Good organizations need good people, men and women of principle who can resist the seductions of short-term political expediency and overcome fears of litigation or unpopularity.
Josephson’s Gabriel Award-winning commentaries air daily on radio stations across the country and around the world on American Forces Radio. To read more, visit http://josephsoninstitute.org/michael.
Tags: education, ethics, keynote, thursday
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