UPDATE (August 4) – New Date and Location; now Monday August 24 at the Rendezvous Hotel Auckland If you or your organisation are using or evaluating Microsoft Office 365, I will be running a workshop in Auckland in two weeks on Driving Authentic Active Use of Office 365. […]
For almost a decade I have been working in the user adoption area, with numerous blog posts, conference talks and keynotes, client-internal and public workshops, consulting projects, and multiple books the result. In light of the above, I find it very interesting to observe from afar the increased […]
Since its acquisition of Yammer in 2012, an improving level of integration between SharePoint and Yammer has been drip fed from Microsoft. It hasn’t been a speedy integration. Last week Beezy announced two-way integration between Yammer and SharePoint that is a great step up from what’s available from […]
On August 1 a range of prices in the Microsoft ecosystem are going up: – the User CAL for on-premises software (including Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync) is increasing by 13%; and – pricing for enterprise cloud products, including Office 365 and Azure in certain regions, are increasing by […]
Postbox announced a new composition goals feature in its latest email client. Postbox 4’s new Composition Goals feature helps you achieve two important things that are basic to emailing effectively and efficiently: 1. Keeping each message concise and to-the-point. Studies show that recipients are more likely to read […]
At the local IBM Connect event in the Netherlands today, I presented on IBM Verse. The focus was on how to think about stimulating effective use and user adoption. In the presentation I made the following points: – the promise of IBM Verse is good. I look forward […]
Conferenz is hosting the Enterprise Mobility 2015 conference in mid-August in Auckland. I will be attending and giving the second presentation of the day: Using mobility as the lightning rod to re-imagine business: doing things a whole lot better – Mere availability of mobility strategies doesn’t drive business […]
It’s still impossible to be in two places physically at the same time, and that causes issues when conferences are scheduled during the same week on opposites sides of the globe. I had already agreed to be in Europe the week of June 8 for a number of […]
On Tuesday June 9 I will be in Utrecht, attending and speaking at the IBM Connect 2015 event in the Netherlands. By my count there are only a couple of sessions in English, with the rest being delivered in Dutch. Nonetheless, one of the English language talks will […]
I presented the opening keynote last week in Sydney at the Intranets 2015 conference. My talk was on Re-Imagining Effective Work (slides above). The presentation advocates the need for thinking beyond the immediate impacts of new technology on work practices, to the deeper and more long running impacts […]
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