Guest Post by: Brett Vanderwater

In the changing landscape of communication channels social media has become a key to bringing visibility to the passion that you deliver through your career. I began utilizing the social media platforms a few months ago and have found the benefits exponential to expanding a targeted network, knowledge on your area of expertise, and raising visibility.

Network has grown through social media sources of Linked InTwitter, and Blogging on financial topics.

• Linked In has brought further networking has provided a means to keep in touch with colleagues as we move through our careers (and around the World). It also brings valuable discussion groups, news, and a forum for asking/answering financial questions to a targeted audience. The speed of information is at your fingertips.
• I utilize Twitter to get the current scoop. The speed of information is critical to staying ahead of the competition and moving a business forward. The micro blogging site provides a channel for short messages on current situations. The value here is the ability to channel the information channels by the following similar interests.
• I have been blogging for a few months. While at first I looked at this as I don’t have time, I’m finding that I have been blogging all along. As knowledge workers we continuously feed information to ourselves to keep current and document what we want to reference in the future. Blogging< can simply provide a means to share items we review on a daily basis.

I have found the BloggingSuits blog a valuable read to further understand the wide open landscape of social media and channel where you want to go with it. The topics are well written and easily understood.

I am a Strategic Financial Leader who delivers sustained value to world class companies.

I thrive on leading financial change in an organization, optimizing growth of revenue and increased profits…a win-win situation!”

To Connect to Brett Vanderwater, MBA, CIA, CMA, CTP; Linked In, Twitter, Blog