At the time of writing, Microsoft Ignite New Zealand starts in 21 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes, and 55 seconds. This will be the first time I have participated in this conference in New Zealand, and I’ll be there for the opening – and early I hope too. […]
On the day after the Digital Workplace Conference in Auckland a couple of weeks back, as has happened at conferences before, Paul Culmsee and I delivered the post-conference workshops. Paul’s workshop was on becoming the ultimate SharePoint business analyst; mine was on driving the effective use of Office […]
In October I will be attending and speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2016 in New Zealand, with a talk focused on user adoption and effective use of Office 365 – a key component of my theme on taking a strategic approach to the use of Office 365. This will […]
At the end of 2011 I published Collaboration Roadmap, and then faced a decision about what to do regarding User Adoption Strategies. That first printing had sold well, and with only 50 copies left to sell, I could just order another print run or alternatively write a second […]
On LinkedIn last week: By any current measure that I have seen, the adoption rates of Office 365 are going more than well. The most recent report from a week ago said that “in the last two years, Office 365 has eclipsed all other cloud providers to emerge […]
On LinkedIn: As an advocate for organisations to embrace new digital tools to enable a re-imagining of work, much of my focus over the past decade has been on showing the benefits of taking that path. [SNIP] I was thinking about this whole issue again a few days […]
A study of call centre workers by the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health found that workers with standing desks made about one half additional successful call per hour in comparison to co-workers who sat while working. The workers with standing desks alternated between standing […]
Western Sydney University, with six campuses in the area, has installed new A/V equipment in two of its campuses to trial new forms of collaborative learning in classroom situations: In place of old-fashioned tutorial rooms with rows of desks facing the lecturer, the new campus will feature 24 […]
At a recent meeting in Christchurch one of the participants grumped about his experiences with moving to Office 365, and in particular OneDrive for Business. He was the owner of a small business, and he had moved all of his files into OneDrive for Business (which if I […]
In a recent Beyond the To-Do List podcast, Michael Sliwinski of Nozbe talks about modelling the behaviours he wants his team to put into practice in how they use Nozbe. Here’s the (slightly edited) extract that stood out to me (starting at 21m23s): “You don’t email me. I […]
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