Amanda is an organisational development practitioner with nearly 10 years experience in human resources practice. She has been a consistent blogger and tweeter for a couple of years now and hooked on the potential for social media to facilitate learning and communication. Amanda has presented at University research forums on learning methodology, contributed to the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ) magazine and blog, published in one of the top international journals for human resources: the Journal of Human Resource Management as well as in Employment Today magazine. She has a background in learning and development, specifically leadership development; design of HR processes; and, lean manufacturing. She is a community leader and Director of #nzlead, connecting a community of passionate HR professionals from NZ and around the world, and runs regular workshops on how to use social technology for recruitment, communication and learning and development.