1. Neerav Bhatt
Guest Lecture 30th May 2012
University of Technology, Sydney
Master of Business in Information
Technology Management (MBITM)
www.neeravbhatt.com

2. Neerav Bhatt - Who Am I?
Portfolio Worker /
Wannabe Polymath.
Multiple contracts,
industries, employers
(Freelance Journalist,
Research Librarian, Travel
and News Photographer,
Pro-Blogger, Political
Candidate …)
Degrees
UWS B Business
(Computing & E-Business)
and UTS Grad Dip
(Information Management).
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3. Continuous Learning
Concentrate on learning
transferable principles more
than specific software,
technologies and tools.
“In times of change, learners
inherit the earth, while the
learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal
with a world that no longer Photo credit: “Rich13” on Flickr
exists.”
- Philosopher Eric Hoffer
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4. Career?
“No more vertical. No more ladder. That's not
the way careers work anymore. Linearity is out.
A career is now a checkerboard. Or even a
maze. It's full of moves that go sideways,
forward, slide on the diagonal … A career is a
portfolio of projects that teach you new skills,
gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities,
grow your colleague set, and constantly
reinvent you as a brand”
- Tom Peters, Fast Company article
http://bit.ly/tompeters1997
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5. Flexibility & Diverse Skills
Jobs / Self Employment in the
future will require diverse
knowledge and skills.
To survive and succeed you’ll
need a flexible mind, keenness
to learn new things and gain
specialist knowledge in more
than 1 area so you aren't
caught unprepared by shifts in
the economy or workforce.
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6. Don’t Be A Commodity Person
Commodity people are
easily replaced, their
work outsourced or
eventually automated.
White Collar jobs are not
protected from this trend.
What are your unique
characteristics?
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7. Be Audacious
Motto: Don’t Ask,
Don’t Get.
The strongest force
stopping you achieving
goals is often yourself.
Be audacious when the
worst that could happen
is someone saying “No”
– low downside risk.
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8. Avoid Complacency, Level Up In Life
Strong temptation to stop innovating when
you’re at the top of your game.
Better approach – every success is leveraged swiftly
to generate future success. “Levelling up” In
gaming terms. Read more at
http://bit.ly/AvoidComplacency
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9. Entrepreneurship Isn’t Easy
gapingvoid.com
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10. Neither Choice Is Perfect
gapingvoid.com
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11. Weasel Words
Be wary of companies and people
who use weasel words.
Avoid dealing with people whose
spoken or written communication
contains crimes against the
English language.
www.weaselwords.com.au
Excerpt from book “The 21st Century Media (R)Evolution: Emergent Communication
Practices” by UTS Professor Jim MacNamara http://bit.ly/jimmcnamara
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12. Build Your Brand & Reputation
“Beat The Drum”. No one will do
it for you … stand out from the
flock.
Register www.yourname.com to
create online Hub.
Use Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook.
Perhaps even Flickr, Youtube or
Vimeo. Link or embed content
from all these on your online Hub
site.
For Branding & SEO try to use
same avatar photo and
username on all sites.
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13. Online Hub yourname.com
Setup Wordpress blog on
www.yourname.com
Publish content regularly such as
your best Ideas, Thoughts,
Photos, Audio, Video.
Your site has 5 seconds to
impress. If it looks abandoned,
that reflects badly on you.
Photo credit: Wordpress creator
Matt Mullenwegg
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14. Micro, Photo and Video Blogging
Blogging isn’t just about writing articles. It’s also
complemented by the quality of your micro, photo,
video blogging & how professional these are.
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15. Be Yourself & Be Sensible
• There are lots of “rules” about social
media. Be yourself but also sensible
because it’s really easy for people to take
a screenshot and quote you later.
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16. Patience Grasshopper
• most people want to get everything done now.
They want to start from nothing and they expect
to be ranking highly in Google or popular on
Twitter etc within six weeks. It doesn’t really
work that way. Because it takes time to build up
a genuine profile and for people to trust you and
know what you’re on about, unless you’ve got a
huge profile already, you can’t just parachute in
and expect to dominate search results if people
put your name into a search engine
– Neerav Bhatt on Future Tense, ABC Radio
National, 5th May 2011
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17. Technology changes, Humans dont
• Social Media and Blogging
are only the latest
iterations of ways to tell
stories and communicate.
• They are not new. Before
Twitter was SMS, before
that was letters, before
that was telegrams and
Morse code …
gapingvoid.com
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18. Contact Details
www.neeravbhatt.com
www.bhatt.id.au/blog
www.roadlesstravelled.com.au
www.flickr.com/photos/neeravbhatt/sets/
www.twitter.com/neerav
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