The Small & Medium Business Centre at HP NZ publishes a mix of business and technology articles. Invariably there is something that catches my eye each month, such as this one on how to get fired at work: “Too late: you’ve said it now; you can’t take the […]
Christchurch was hit with a new earthquake today – a 6.3 magnitude, and much closer to the central city. Our house started to shake at 12.53pm, and it didn’t seem as big to us this time as the original one on September 4. For us out at Greendale, […]
I do like this story … makes me smile every time I read it: “A Cowboy from Big Timber, Montana walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Paris for an international […]
Martin White’s new book, The Intranet Management Handbook, is now available. It was almost a year ago in Copenhagen that Martin told the IntraTeam Event 2010 conference attendees that he “had 35,000 words to go,” and with all that’s happened for Martin and intranets between then, it’s great […]
I’ve read a number of times – in books, articles, and blogs – that you should never check a bag with the airlines. I have done it myself – I did a 6-day trip to the United States for business in 2007 with only carry-on luggage. And it […]
Slideshare changed the dynamics of giving presentations – conference speakers could now leverage their conference work to reach a broader audience beyond their assigned meeting slot, and people who didn’t get an invitation to talk at the conference could put their thoughts up alongside those who did. Last […]
ALGIM, the Association of Local Government Information Management, is running a two-day Web Symposium in early May 2011 in Wellington. I will be presenting the keynote speech on Monday May 2, on collaboration. The topic and tentative outline is below: How To Engage An Organisation To Be Collaborative […]
Lee Reed helps clients with SharePoint in the United States. He and I met through EndUserSharePoint, and have had some neat conversations by phone since then. We have many similar interests, around effective governance, user adoption, and more. So I send my congrats to Lee on starting with […]
My iPad is playing with my mind. When evaluating software, for the past 7 years I have only asked one question – “Does it work with my Mac?” And now, after having an iPad for 7 months, the question has changed to “Does it work with my iPad?” […]
Like many of you, I spent much of my early years at school. Once I add in time at University, I was there from age 5 to 22. My most vivid recollection from those years took place at Kelston Boys High School in Auckland. I was 15, in […]
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