It seems that everywhere I look I see references to Foursquare and location based social media services.   If you have a Wellington City Library card have a look at the following.  If you haven’t used our www.mygateway.info  site within the last month, you will need to authenticate first here     

As Foursquare moves beyond hipsters, big brands check in 

Forget Foursquare: why location marketing is new point-of-purchase

Foursquare set to rocket

and here  for these articles

Getting Customers to ‘Check In’ With Foursquare

Online reputation: Get your bearings

This item comes from by Ekaterina Walter who is a social media strategist at Intel. and responsible for social networking strategy and social media enablement writing in the very highly rated blog  Social media examiner

This July 2010  white paper  from Deloitte takes as it’s starting point not minimising or avoiding risk in the organisation.  Instead it discusses how it can be managed within the organisation.  This is a very useful document and outlines the nine fundamentals Deloitte’s say are crucial to an organisation managing risk and achieving strategic goals.

Have a look at all the white papers in Deloitte’s Risk Intelligence series

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The BSR organisation has a global network of more than 250 companies (including Sony, Nike and Marks and Spencer) and works to develop “sustainable business strategies and solutions”.

Their July 2010 report entitled “The new frontier in sustainability” looks at “product design, consumer engagement and use, and end-of-use“

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How does market leadership influence a firm’s likelihood of being an early adopter of business process innovation.  This recent Harvard Business School working paper The effect of market leadership in business process innovation: the case(s) of e-business adoption took data from over 35,000 plants in over 80 manufacturing industries.

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This is a selection of recently available management books at Wellington City Libraries.

This is a timely and relevant report which looks at how Dutch employees are dealing with a fast growing number of aging employees.    It is very applicable to New Zealand.  Interviews with both employers and employees are included.

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Intel has compiled a guide for its employees regarding the use of social media.   These are really practical and worth looking at.

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The latest issue is now available to read online using your library card.  This month’s cover stories include:

• The Execution Trap (why employees fail)
• Empowered (how companies can use social media for innovation)
• How hierarchy can hurt strategy execution
• Stop the innovation wars (why companies shouldn’t resist innovation)

Interested? Enter your library card details here, and enjoy full access, courtesy of Wellington City Libraries.

Getting change right : how leaders transform organizations from the inside out Seth Kahan ; foreword by Bill George

Common purpose: how great leaders get organizations to achieve the extraordinary / Joel Kurtzman

Open leadership : how social technology can transform the way you lead / Charlene Li.

How to be a fierce competitor : what winning companies and great managers do in tough times / Jeffrey J. Fox

This is a just a small selection.  Here is a link to the Wellington City Libraries’catalogue