Digital Energy: Social Networking in the Oil & Gas Business

Speaker: Zain Naboulsi, Information Technology Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

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Social Networks are on a meteoric rise. According to Forrester: �Young adults are more than twice as likely to be creators of original content and two and a half times more likely to be social network joiners as compared with previous generations. Additionally, 49% of them visit social networking sites at least monthly.� Attend this luncheon to learn how your new employees are already harnessing this technology to change the game in the way work is done in the oil & gas business.

Managers need to be educated on this new medium and how it impacts their business. Join Zain Naboulsi, Information Technology Evangelist for Microsoft, as we discuss the present and the future of social networks and how they will impact the business operations of Oil & Gas corporations. We will discuss the myriad touch points social networks have with business today from hiring to security implications and beyond. We look forward to seeing you there!

SPEGCS Digital Energy Study Group - Social Networking

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Speaker Zain Naboulsi

For over 14 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies. He�s been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1995 and holds all major Microsoft certifications, plus credentials from Cisco, Checkpoint and CompTIA. He is the creator of Virtual World Evangelism (VWE) which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like Facebook, Second Life, and OpenSim. He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of virtual worlds but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer. Zain�s efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, and many others. He has been interviewed by Forrester Research, ThinkBalm, UgoTrade, and Gartner for his work with virtual world communities. He is a frequent speaker at events in Second Life, Facebook, and other virtual worlds. and lectures world-wide to evangelize the future of this exciting new medium.

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