In my final post for The Smarter Office, I review the Interactions 2012 conference from early October in London: “While I was in London early last month, I attended an intranet conference hosted by Interact, a vendor of “intelligent intranet” software (to use their phrase). The conference was […]
Microsoft is hosting the SharePoint Conference 2012 this week in Las Vegas. There’s about 10,000 people there—which makes for a huge event. Here’s some of the news I noted that was timed to coincide with the conference: AvePoint DocAve Analytics for SharePoint … AvePoint released a new Windows […]
In a perfect world, it would be easy to attend two conferences in the United States next week, as well as run the user adoption workshop in New Zealand, make progress on the book, and complete a couple of other client projects. The world isn’t perfect, but here’s […]
In both 2011 and 2012 I attended (and spoke at) the Intranets201X conferences in Sydney. Both were very good events – well-organized, well-attended, well-run. I’ve been to few conferences around the world over recent years, and the Step Two team put on a world-class event both years. The […]
Tim Walters from Digital Clarity Group is talking about reasons for the failure of Enterprise 2.0. There's 4.5 reasons (we're told), with a happy intranet ending at the end (appropriately). Key points: – "Enterprise 2.0" for the talk is generally focused on social. Towards the end, will broaden […]
Janus Boye from Denmark is talking about sharing is caring, a new intranet perspective. Key points: – Museums have traditionally had a special role as gatekeepers. They put assets on display. Intranets have been like this – taking organizational assets, and controlling how they are accessed. The more […]
Lee Bryant from Dachis Group is talking about social business. Key points: – (1) Poor user experience leads to low adoption. (2) Most intranets are not fundamentally productive tools. – Better approach – ambient actions that throw off knowledge in the flow of work. – Adoption – changing […]
Sam Marshall from ClearBox Consulting is talking about loving the intranet, and how to encourage adoption. Key points: – How do we encourage people to adopt new tools? – 2011 survey from Information Week, "13% of IT professionals believe their social tools have been a success." – We […]
Martin White from Intranet Focus is talking about being effective with virtual teams. Key points: – Martin has been running virtual teams since 1977. Has made all the mistakes. – Many organizations have virtual teams, but few provide training for being on a virtual team. – The Challenger […]
Four intranet managers are talking about Intranetizen: – Principle – shared knowledge is power. – Jonathan – 10 characteristics of great intranets – communication tool, a place of work, collaboration to an end, positively impacts employees, for sharing knowledge, a digital reflection of the business, builds community, transparency […]
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