The BrightStar conference is being held at the Rydges Auckland. I haven’t stayed here before, but whenever I have the choice, I will stay again. They have paid attention to the “little” things that mean a lot to a corporate traveler: The power plug outlets are in intuitive […]
Julian Carver, from Seradigm, and the Conference Chair, summarizes the day: – Cairo, “don’t try to boil the ocean” – Paul, radical trust, “blogs are an unexploded bomb”, and “invisible rain” is a great phrase. – Mark, open source CMSs – Kylie, “FaceBook within the organization” – Dorje, […]
The final speaker of the day is Shailesh Manga, from Optimal Usability Limited Opening Comments Shailesh recognizes that he’s the only thing standing between us and drinks. Usability covers everything in real life. Many things are done very badly. Agenda: – Introduction – Is usability a good idea? […]
The second speaker after lunch was Peter Grierson from SHIFT, who is a User Experience Specialist there. He’s previously worked for the ANZ Bank (on the Intranet design team), Sensis, and Information and Design (Australia). SHIFT started as a web/intranet design firm, but in recent years, have expanded […]
After a one-hour break for lunch (during which time I got to speak with Vivek, Richard and Ken), Dorje McKinnon from Sungard AvantGard took the stage to present a case study entitled From Phonebook to HR Information System. He’ll be presenting on AvantGard’s intranet evolution. Opening Comments “Dorje” […]
The final speaker before lunch was Kylie Gibbon from the Auckland Regional Council, presenting a case study of what’s happening with the Intranet at the Auckland Regional Council. Current Situation The current Intranet is called “Our Backyard” … it has evolved over the past 5 years, bits have […]
After morning tea (complete with bad workflow design, eg, tea placed after the hot water, not before), Mark Pascall from 3months.com, presented on Delivering Web Content the Open Source Way. 3months is a Wellington-based web development and consulting firm. “3months has been providing professional web development and consulting […]
Paul Reynolds is the Director of McGovern & Associates, and blogs at McGovern Online. He presented the second session of the first day, Leveraging the Web 2.0 Ecology on the Corporate Intranet – Myths vs Realities. Paul wants to outline a framework about what he’s been thinking about […]
I was a bit late to the conference due to a plane delay, but as I arrived, Cairo Walker from Step Two Designs was kicking off the key note presentation entitled What Makes Intranets Work? Some of the opening ideas from Cairo: Enterprise content management promises to solve […]
I’m in Auckland for the next two days, attending at the 7th Annual Strategic Intranet and Enterprise Portal Management Summit hosted by BrightStar. I’m speaking tomorrow, but between now and then, will be taking notes as best I can. I’ll put all my blog posts into the Intranets […]
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