If your interested to seeing what I am up to, reading and/or sharing on the web outside of my entries on Sourcing Excellence, the best place to find me is over on Friendfeed.

“FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.”

The team over at Webpage FX have written a post giving a good overview of Friendfeed’s functionality and benefits ‘Friendfeed Explained’. Whilst Duncan Riley @ Techcrunch has also posted an interesting entry explaining why FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter.

My personal page brings together my Twitter feed, Google reader shared feeds, Flickr feed and more http://friendfeed.com/markperera. Additionally I have setup Friendfeed room for Sourcing Excellence ( http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sourcing-excellence ), so people can comment and share their thoughts on the topics covered on Sourcing Excellence.

I look forward to seeing you there!

So it’s been six months since I stepped down as editor of Procurement Leaders and I have finally succumbed to my need to share my thoughts with the world on the topics which interest my business and personal life.

So what are those topics that interest me?

Procurement - funny enough after spending the last four years facilitating one of the most influential buying communities in the Europe, the focus of Sourcing Excellence will around the procurement and sourcing.  My day job continues to be strategically drive the Procurement Leaders Network forward, by extending the reach of the membership in Europe and into new regions.

Technology - as a self confessed techy geek, technology is going to another key area that I will be regularly writing about. I am a sucker for all the new shiny technology, whether it is new web app that promises going to save me time managing my email or new type of phone to read my email.

Collaboration - this is a really exciting area for me. Over the last few years technology has provided an endless array of ways for individuals and groups to work together and moving forward it is only going to get more engrained into out day to day lives. Whether it is open sourced software like Wordpress (which this blog is running on) or the Wikipedia it astounds me what the collective group can achieve. With this in mind I am going to use the crowd at much a possible to drive sourcing excellence forward.

Sustainability - whether it’s the fact that I am new father, or my back ground in biology or the growing awareness of society as a whole about what we are doing to our planet, sustainability in all its guises is another area that I am passionate about. My day job obviously gives a lot of insight into corporate buying decisions, so sustainable procurement topic area that I will cover regularly.