On Monday August 28 I took the four oldest boys to violin lesson. While David and Matthew were having their lesson, Philip, Daniel and I recorded a couple of fun sound sessions. Here they are … (and Eric, Daniel’s comment was totally unprompted … I promise!) Interview with […]
When I’m peeling the potatoes for dinner, the peeling instrument I use plays a huge role in the productivity of the task, whether the job is done quick or slow. We currently have two red peelers: one peels a 5mm stroke at a time, the other a 12mm […]
Team Collaboration Applications Roundup Zoho Projects … Zoho released Zoho Projects, an online project management tool. Key features: tasks and milestones, dashboard view of recent activity, discussion forums, and a calendar, among others. Integration with Zoho Chat is coming. Available immediately. Zoho Blog Google Apps … Google released […]
My three oldest children are pretty mad about the reclassification of Pluto as a “dwarf planet” rather than a full planet. “By my science book says it is a planet”, says David (10). Matthew (9) proposed organizing COMAA, or “Children of Malvern Against Astronomers”. We’ve had some discussions […]
The final session of the conference was a presentation on the Convergence of Intranets, Extranets and Portals by Gavin Barron (Business Analyst) and David Archibald (IT Manager) from Industrial Research Limited (IRL). IRL is a 400-person organization, and is one of the 9 crown research institutes in New […]
The two final sessions of the day started at 3pm, with Nick Besseling from The University of Auckland speaking on Intranet content: Accessible, Usable and Useful. In terms of Web 2.0, check out Why I Hate Web 2.0. Nick is very passionate about what he believes, and his […]
I missed two sessions directly after lunch on day 2 at the conference, that being: Miriam Walker of SHIFT, speaking on Intranet Success: Useful, Usable and Valuable Intranets Michael Wigley of Wigley & Company, speaking on Legal and Regulatory Issues that Every Intranet Manager Should Know I missed […]
Julian Carver from Seradigm provided a Case Study on Assessing the Needs of Portal and Intranet Users. Key themes are fast, flexible and fun as way for assessing portal requirements for intranet users. Fast Assessing user needs for an intranet project requires covering off some key things … […]
The second speaker of the day was Coralie Gibbison, the Portal Project Manager from the University of Waikato speaking on the topic Making the Grade: Portals in Action at the University of Waikato. Coralie said it is going to be part of a show-n-tell session, with an analysis […]
Day 2 of the 6th Annual Strategic Intranet and Enterprise Portal Management conference kicked off with Matias Cudich from BEA Systems speaking on Enterprise 2.0. Matias came out from San Francisco to speak at the conference. (hey Eric, notice anything?) After saying he loves eating New Zealand lamb, […]
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