Author Archives: Ben Woelk

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A review of Petrilli, The Introvert’s Guide to Success in Business and Leadership

Category:Infosec Communicator,Introverted Leadership,introverts,Leadchange,Leadership,STC,STC Rochester,techcomm Tags : 

Reading this book as an introverted leader, I’m encouraged to see that Lisa recommends and extends many of the same techniques I’ve found essential. I found that meeting individually with members of my admin council was a key enabler in a successful year. I also appreciated knowing that an introvert can rise to C level leadership.

Lisa refers to not faking it. However, I viewed my leadership  responsibility as a role that had duties and expectations to fulfil. I observed successful leaders and tried to emulate their ability to reach out to others to welcome them and affirm them.

I think the book is best suited for introverts who have been newly thrust into leadership. The section for extraverted leaders on how to lead introverts was also useful.


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Congratulations! Congratulations!! Congratulations!!! You are a Winner in the Microsoft Promotion!!

Category:Information Security,Infosec Communicator,Internet Safety,Risk,Uncategorized Tags : 

Screenshot of email Winner notification

                                                          

I received the email above today. Should I provide the information requested so I can start the process to claim my £500,000.00 GBR prize? Did anyone else receive this? Maybe I’m one of the lucky ten!


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Bulletproofing Your Career Online—Ben Woelk & Hannah Morgan

Category:Infosec Communicator,Uncategorized

Jamie Gillenwater’s review of @careersherpa’s and @benwoelk’s presentation at #stc12 in May.


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Password Strength Comic

Category:Information Security,Infosec Communicator,Risk Tags : 

This would fit right into my Ten Tips to Shockproof Your Use of Social Media Lightning Talk, except that it probably takes more than 15 seconds to read.

Courtesy of XKCD

Which of these passwords appears to be stronger? Are you surprised?

Passphrases are easy to remember and harder to crack!

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Bridge Building: Establishing Communications Processes

Category:Communications Processes,Infosec Communicator,Leadchange,Lessons Learned,techcomm,Uncategorized Tags : 

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This past fall we had the privilege of visiting Pont du Gard, a Roman bridge and aqueduct in Languedoc in the south of France. Although built primarily without mortar (except for the top course of blocks), Pont du Gard has endured for more than 2000 years, despite frequent spring floods.

The Pont du Gard aqueduct/bridge was built to provide clean water for the town of Nimes. Its builders understood the importance of building a structure that took into account the factors that would affect the bridge. They understood at least some of the pressures that would bear on that structure. They built the bridge accordingly. Its builders designed it to endure.

Geographical map of the aqueduct of the Pont d...

Geographical map of the aqueduct of the Pont du Gard. Map created using data from OpenStreetMap. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So, this blog is about communications. What does the Pont du Gard have to do with communications?

Much of my role as a technical communicator has been to build processes that enable the flow of good communication. I’ve had to factor in the context (pressures that will bear on the structure) in which I was building those processes. Those communications processes are the bridges (aqueducts) that I build. In distributed organizations, well built communications bridges are critical to the health of the organizations.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to talk about bridge building.  First, I’ll discuss my initial attempts at architecting communications processes for a Fortune 500 organization that had outsourced key support processes in the midst of a major software/hardware infrastructure transformation. Next, I’ll discuss communications processes I’ve built in my role as an information security practitioner in higher education. Finally, I’ll talk about my current work to build a sustainable communications bridge that enables clear communications between a central organization and its distributed communities, ensures the concerns of those distributed communities are heard, and facilitates best practice sharing among those communities.

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