AusIMM Linked In sites

Overview

Linked In is well recognized by the AusIMM Directors, Community of Interests (COI) and members as a popular media for communication between the AusIMM administration and members. The sites are largely used to publicize AusIMM events, along with sharing information on jobs, and some broader industry news. The wider use of these sites has much upside yet to be developed.

The positive nature of communication.

The book “From monologue to dialogue – radio reform in Indonesia” by Edwin Jurriens (English) is one of those obscure books that you read on a remote fly camp, or endless waiting in airports. It is both tedious and insightful.

Indonesia’s radio evolved under the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during the Second World War, as a propaganda tool to pacify the diverse population. This central state propaganda mode continued with Soekarno after independence. Later on, some private radio stations were permitted, though they had to relay the State news. I recall listening to the reading out of the local rice crops (to the nearest kilogram) and recalling that these record crops were actually smaller than last year – but no one was keeping track. Indeed, the credibility of the one-way state news slipped into the background and no one actually listened. Under the second and subsequent presidents, radios were given more freedom in their programming. This encouraged radio interviews with intellectuals, being the start of a two-way communication, where the community could begin to experience a variety of views about their wider community. Then talk-back radio evolved, being a three-way communication between the radio presenter and the public, along with public-to-public communication. This fed the political and social development of the wider population to build a stronger and more engaged society.

AusIMM communication tools.

The AusIMM’s principal communication with members is through one-way emails emanating from the AusIMM Management Team (AMT) that convey marketing information on AusIMM events, and “good performance” from the combined CEO & Chairman of the Board. The AMT also has bimonthly two-way management COI zoom meetings with groups of COI leaders, though the leaders do not always attend, and there are apparently no minutes of flow through to members.

The technical conferences and webinars allow for some two-way Q&A at the end of conferences of webinars. There are some limited two-way technical communications through individual member initiatives to broadcast podcasts. The recent trend of the AMT is to restrict communication. The two-way administrative communication thought the Annual General Meeting (AGM) has recently been squeezed in time allotment and restricted to two-way communications members via emails.

The main three-way communication of the Congress has also been cut down from a 2-day fee for all talk fest that was open to remote members through zoom, to recently become a selected approved group of community leaders in face-to-face meetings. One good avenue for three-way communication is within the COI and Branch committees. Extending this conversation between COI / Branch committees to their followers / communities appears mostly limited to personal contacts. The discussions and outputs of these committees are not recorded in the Bulletin or AusIMM web sites, though a few edited newsletters are sometimes emailed to listed followers.

The AusIMM has 16 Linked In community sites with most having between 300 to 1 followers. The AusIMM Women in Mining Network site has 2,938 followers, while the main AusIMM Linked In site has 24,000 followers (though the AusIMM membership stands at nearly 13,000 and rough estimates that only half of those members are on LinkedIn, while only around 4,000 members names appear on the Web site membership lists).

Linked In is presently mostly used as a one-way communication tool, with Communities of Interest (COI’s) sending out messages (about one per two months) and almost no responding comments. Many of the COI Linked In sites appear not to have been active for a year or so.

Conclusion.

The AusIMM use of the Linked In is underutilized and is one media that could be expanded to build a stronger and more engaged & evolved Society.

Submitting Posts.

When you?submit a post on a LinkedIn group, the post may not immediately appear in the group feed. This is because the group admin has?enabled the setting?that allows admins to review all the posts before they’re shared with other members of the group. With this feature, admins can ensure that the group feed only includes content that aligns with the group guidelines.

Once you post an update on a LinkedIn Group, you’ll receive a pop-up message explaining that your post is sent for admin approval and the admin gets notified of the pending post.

Upon the admin’s approval, your post will be visible in the group feed, and you’ll get a notification regarding the approval. However, if the admin rejects your post, it won’t be available in the group feed and you won’t receive a notification regarding the rejection.

Notes:

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Rules

AusIMM values as they relate to social media require those who engage with AusIMM on social media to:

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• Posts can be moderated for accuracy, tone and relevance.