The past two weeks have been very “interesting”. My left hand and wrist showed signs of RSI, with extreme pain in being touched, bumped, twisted or used for typing. When you live your professional life glued to a keyboard, the latter isn’t very helpful! So I’ve had to […]
Our local community–the Malvern area–had a variety evening tonight to raise funds for some young people to travel to the North Island. The local Darfield recreation hall was converted into a concert hall, and by looks of things there are 600-800 people here (the population of Darfield is […]
Farmer Earley with the rotary hoe in our garden When you live in the country and have a large family, a large vegetable garden is a great thing. Ours is 140m2, or 1500 square feet. In previous years, Katrina’s Dad had use the rotary hoe to get the […]
After returning from New York in May I went for a couple of runs, but very quickly my knees were unbearably sore. I haven’t run since, but I’ve been investigating why. What I’ve found out is this: My previous running shoes were wrong for me. They didn’t have […]
The people at BrightStar Conferences asked me back to speak at this year’s Strategic Intranet & Enterprise Portal Management Conference in Auckland on August 28 and 29. I’m speaking on the afternoon of day 2, with a session entitled Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and Other Collaborative Tools – […]
Background Carol is the Editor-in-Chief of the MIS Quarterly, a top-three IT academic journal. In 2006, they had 5 issues (4 quarterly and 1 special), and of 346 submissions, there were only 43 papers published. There are 10 senior editors, and 40 associate editors. The average turnaround time […]
The University of Canterbury, where I’m doing my PhD, has visiting professors frequently throughout the year. Today Professor Carol Saunders, a professor of MIS at the University of Central Florida, is our first visitor for this half of the year. Carol is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the MIS […]
My Dad finished up his work at the Booth College of Mission today, which is the Salvation Army’s Bible College in New Zealand. I attended his farewell. Welcome Major Donaldson (the current head of the Booth College of Mission) welcomed everyone who came to the event, including a […]
I don’t know if I can believe it, but I Microsoft made me a Microsoft MVP for Office Communications Server today. Wow.
I’m going to be in Wellington (New Zealand) on Monday July 16 and Tuesday July 17 … I have some client meetings scheduled, and also have some spaces for opportunities and possibilities. If you want to talk about common interests … business collaboration, SharePoint, collaboration strategy, Enterprise 2.0, […]
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