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	<title>The Ausmerican &#187; Expat Professional</title>
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	<description>- Issues facing; Expat professionals, Trailing Spouses, Portable Businesses, Near Retirement Professionals .... and other stuff of professional and personal interest.</description>
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		<title>Next assignment &#8211; Rome</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well time in New Zealand is coming to a close and we have commenced our packout activities in full swing hence the items for sale in previous posts on here. Casual readers please disregard  We are off to Rome later this year, this will be a massive cultural shift after living in the antipodes and feeling much more culturally comfortable for the last three years but an experience we are looking forward to. Work will be a challenge I&#8217;m sure as I contract my work space from a full room in a four bedroom house dedicated to my work to maybe a kitchen table or a closet in our Italian apartment. Time will tell! As always staying connected and productive during the move will be the greatest challenge. I&#8217;m currently scanning any paper I need to keep, disposing of almost all paper. Books are another heavy commodity that can now be eliminated. As much as I hate to let go of many of my ready references and motivational works, I&#8217;ve decided to go and audiobook and eBook all the way. Kindle, iPad and iPods weigh much less than my 6 shelves of books. I&#8217;ll be posting all the titles up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes an entrepreneur?</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2011/an_entrepreneur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great series of articles from Mark Suster from his Both Sides of the Table blog describing the makeup and attributes of entrepreneurs. 1. Tenacity – the most important attribute of an entrepreneur is never being willing to give up. 2. Street Smarts – getting out and understanding customers is far more important than book smarts or computer research. 3. Ability to Pivot – it’s not good enough to be tenacious and smart.  You also need to be sure you have a great product/market fit and that it is a big enough market to make money.  The best entrepreneurs fine tune their product and their business model until they find this groove. 4. Resiliency – being an entrepreneur is sexy … for those who haven’t done it.  In reality it’s gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt.  Entrepreneurs are survivors. 5. Inspiration - Tenacity + street smarts is not enough without inspiration.  You need to lead teams and convince others to move mountains when by all means they shouldn’t believe they can. 6. Perspiration - We all know people who can stand up at a conference and deliver a rousing speech or who sound awesome in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portable Careers and Working from Anywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/portable-careers-working-anywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Podcasts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it&#8217;s by choice or circumstance, more people are working in non-traditional work situations requiring that they be able to work from anywhere. I&#8217;ve had a great deal of interest in this subject since becoming a Trailing Spouse in 2001 and living and working in 5 countries over the last 9 years.  It&#8217;s one thing to be a mobile worker and travel for days or weeks at a time, this requires discipline, skills and the use of various technologies, but to simultaneously pick up your whole life along with your work environment and move it to another country every couple of years takes another level of life / work / technology integration. One aspect of technology that I&#8217;ve embraced as part of this mobile work and portable career lifestyle is the use of spoken word audio to learn, inform and entertain while I do other things. An organization that has done a great deal over recent years to promote and share spoken word content is SpokenWord.org - This non-profit organization helps identify and locate spoken word content to make it easy to find programs of interest. I&#8217;ve recently been selected as a Curator of content for &#8216;Portable Careers and Working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in a Flying House &#8211; Expat Student Scholarship</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/life-in-a-flying-house-expat-student-scholarship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, Clements International, launched a scholarship program to give back to their clients and the expatriate community. Now in its second year, the 2010 Expat Youth Scholarship offered participants a chance to use their experiences living in a foreign country to imagine where their journey might take them next. The scholarship’s theme, “Life in a Flying House,” is inspired by the idea that expat students who spend their childhoods moving between different countries and cultures develop rich life experiences. This year Clements received over 500 entries and will be awarding a total of $10,000 in scholarships to six, talented students from all over the world! The winning entries are amazing and will be posted online for the world to see at www.expatyouthscholarship.com once the finalists are announced. Details about the 2011 scholarship will be announced in coming months, so any expats with student children should check this out via their Facebook page (with over 500 fans!): Win $100 for using Facebook Become a fan of Clements International AND the Expat Youth Scholarship to be entered to win a $100 Visa gift card! You can sign up to receive e-mail updates at www.expatscholarship.com or follow on Twitter ______________________________________________________ About Clements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story of  Trailing Geek</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/224/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Trailing Spouse blog post by the Trailing Geek caught my eye for a number of reasons; 1) it wasn&#8217;t just the ever so common re-statement of the problems we all face as Trailing Spouses 2) it offered solutions to problems 3) it was posted by a Trailing Spouse from academia, who is not an expatriate 4) it specifically addresses job search issues The Trailing Geek has moved with her partner to &#8220;Smallville&#8221; after leaving &#8220;Metropolis&#8221; so her partner can pursue her Ph.D. at &#8220;Pleasant U.&#8221; She embraced the Trailing Spouse situation and immediately did 3 things: 1. A sprightly happy dance. 2. Informed her employer at that time, Company X. 3. Started looking for jobs in Smallville. The point here is – immediately! So many Trailing Spouses leave their action for job search until after they arrive. Job searching takes time, it requires relationship building so it makes sense to start as soon as you know about your impending move&#8230;even if you don&#8217;t know where you are going. In the case of the Trailing Geek he knew where he was going and he knew what he needed to do. More specifically, notifying your current employer gets them on-board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention MALE Trailing Spouses</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/attention-male-trailing-spouses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TrailingSpouse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trailing Spouse Network Member Dr. Nina Cole, an Associate Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto is currently researching what HR departments can do to help male spouses on international assignments. Her research team is hoping to recruit male spouses to be featured in an article that they are preparing for publication. They require a brief description of why you joined the Trailing Spouse Network and how it helps you as a male accompanying partner. If you are a Male Trailing Spouse and you would like to participate in this initiative, please visit the Trailing Spouse Network on LinkedIn and respond to the discussion on this subject. http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=104868 Thanks Jeff]]></description>
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		<title>A Dream or a Plan?</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/a-dream-or-a-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why didn&#8217;t Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give an &#8220;I have a Plan&#8221; speech? According to Simon Sinek, it&#8217;s because &#8220;People don&#8217;t buy what you do, they buy why you do it&#8221;. Dr. King&#8217;s message leading up to his famous speech on the Capitol Mall in 1963 wasn&#8217;t a direction of what was needed to be done at that time, it wasn&#8217;t an action plan,  it was a consistent message of &#8216;here&#8217;s what I believe&#8217;. As a result, without the benefit of Facebook, or a web-site to check the details of when and where, people gathered to hear his dream because it meant something to them, they were ready to buy. We all get caught up in our businesses by talking about what we do; extolling the features and benefits of our products or services, but does our passion show through? I guess this has been expressed in other ways over the years and I recall &#8220;selling the sizzle, not the steak&#8221;, or differentiating between features and benefits, but it all comes down to &#8216;what&#8217;s in it for me&#8217;? Of course this differs from one person to the next but passion sells, it&#8217;s contagious. If you truly believe in why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication is a two way activity</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/communication-is-a-two-way-activity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 05:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a few experiences recently that have reminded me of a comment that a mentor shared with me years ago &#8211; &#8220;Communication is a two way activity&#8221;. What did he mean by that? His comment came about as we were reviewing a status list of a project, trying to tick items off the list that were complete. The list was a mess. It had grown to a point where items were marked complete when they were not&#8230; and vice versa. Project staff had been reading what they were supposed to do on the list, doing it, then marking it complete. You might expect that this is exactly what you want done to progress the project, right? But the communication was too simplistic. People were interpreting the work to be done but this didn&#8217;t always align with what the project managers were expecting to be done. There was the appearance of communication via the list, but we were not communicating, we were simply stating our version of events. Any form of communication should contain a message, the recipient should respond with their understanding of what they heard, the originator should then acknowledge the response or make any corrections in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trailing Spouse on Wikipedia</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/trailing-spouse-on-wikipedia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An entry has been created on Wikipedia to define and help bring attention to the Trailing Spouse phenomena. You can access the article by searching Wikipedia for &#8220;Trailing Spouse&#8221; or directly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailing_spouse I welcome feedback, additions and suggestions to the article so please, anyone who feels the article needs corrections or additional detail please feel free to edit the article directly (please respect the Wikipedia Guidelines). Alternatively, use the article discussion page or contact me directly. In the time it&#8217;s taken to write this posting the article has already been tagged with this header: &#8220;This article may not meet the general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.&#8221; I look forward to your assistance. &#8211;Jeff]]></description>
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		<title>Contact Management – Why do we all find it so difficult?</title>
		<link>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/contact-management-why-do-we-all-find-it-so-difficult/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ausmerica.com/blog/2010/contact-management-why-do-we-all-find-it-so-difficult/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting the office, or even your personal contact list under control and keeping it that way is a daunting and sometimes apparently hopeless task. The techniques described in this article can be applied to small business and large organizations alike to help begin the complex task of developing a trusted resource, which forms the core of a Knowledge Based CRM solution, regardless of the technology solution being used. I&#8217;ve had about 30 years experience in Business Process Improvement, Marketing, Business Development, Regional Industry Development and Client Relationship Management (CRM), it&#8217;s been my belief that  CRM is the core of most knowledge based business initiatives. We haven&#8217;t always called it &#8220;CRM&#8221;, but building and maintaining worthwhile relationships should always be at the focal point of organizational activities. Managing those relationships along with outcomes and stakeholder interactions results in a knowledge based environment that engenders improved Business Intelligence and a Knowledge Sharing culture. But it’s all too hard! A great deal of motivation often surrounds the review of Contact Management in the office. “Let’s finally get organized” &#8211; and the world will be a better place. My experience with many of these exercises over the years in organizations large and small, using [...]]]></description>
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