As they take over from the baby boomers, Generation Y employees are proving more ambitious and more demanding…
…Increasingly, however, mentors are using technology to get around this problem. The Australian Businesswomen’s Network has been using cutting-edge Web 2.0 technology to connect female SME owners with mentors through its Mentornet program since January this year. Mentornet uses a combination of online classrooms, blogs, podcasts, teleconferencing, virtual meetings and a social networking facility similar to Facebook and Bebo to facilitate interaction between experienced mentors and new business owners. Online mentoring takes place in groups of four participants to one mentor via a hosted webinar that allows participants to see, talk, view common documents and see pictures of each other, or at any time through blogs and email…
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