MS Alumni #6: Matthew Poyiadgi – CompTIA
MediaSnackers Alumni
(GBR) The MediaSnackers Alumni are a growing number of past clients that could just disappear into the ether if we didn’t catch up with them. We decided to hunt down and grill them to find out what difference their training had made in the way they work professionally and personally.
This months thoughts and insights are from Matthew Poyiadgi:
What’s your role, who you work for, and what sort of things do you do?
I work for the global technology association, CompTIA, as Vice President of their International operations. I work with training, academic and corporate partners to help them validate and benchmark skills in their companies, by recognising that talent, and people, are their major asset! As the voice for the IT industry, I also deliver a lot of presentations for the company.
Its been a month or so since you have been drenched in the MediaSnackers ‘way’, what did you learn from the experience?
That the younger audiences we communicate with are our future customer and the future workforce. We need to understand how they communicate and use technology as a daily vehicle to living. As organisations if we don’t embrace social media, especially the tools the kids know so well today, we will become an ‘uncool’ company and the future talent will not want to work for us.
How have other members of the team/organisation, that didn’t attend the course, received your new techniques?
We are a small team here in London and fortunately everybody attended, and they loved it.
What has been the biggest and easiest change to make in the way that you work?
To encourage staff to get online, to embrace tools such as Twitter, YouTube and Slideshare and to be free to come up with ideas that they think would help our customers and our business.
Has there been any difficulty in implementing these new approaches?
Only in that the tools are new to us and so there is a degree of uncertainty in the unknown. But we live and learn don’t we!
What future projects do you have planned which utilise social media?
A company-based Twitter account (already in place), more presentations on Slideshare, and we will think of ways to engage via YouTube. Our website has been redesigned and looks great, so improvements are under way. As I said, we learn every day we experience these technologies, and we are enjoying it along the way.
Thank you for your time, Matthew Poyiadgi.
