Mike Rawson from DB Breweries in New Zealand talked about using SharePoint 2007 for the Intranet. Find Mike on LinkedIn. At DB, Mike is responsible for all integration between systems. Key points from Mike’s talk: In 2008, DB migrated from DocuShare to SharePoint. Worked with Gen-i (a Telecom […]
Erica Toelle from InfoShare in Seattle WA talked about people change management research as applied to SharePoint maturity. Erica has been working with SharePoint since 2004, with a major emphasis on enterprise content management. She is also heavily involved in a music festival in Seattle, that draws 25,000 […]
Andrew is a consultant at OBS in Australia, based in Brisbane. Andrew is on the business and knowledge management side. Key points from Andrew around governance and business processes: What’s the problem? SharePoint on its own doesn’t do a thing. You have to put SharePoint to work on […]
John Michael Simpson, the CIO from the Mississippi Department of Transportation, talked about how they are using SharePoint to reduce traffic fatalities. John talked – no PowerPoint – here are some key points: Line of business applications and data are largely in place. The next challenge is “animating […]
Jerry Smith from Microsoft gave the first keynote for the Share2010 business-user conference in Sydney, Australia. He talked about new capabilities in SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 clients to enable business users to do their work better. Key points: Social Networking … the social networking capabilities in SharePOint […]
On February 19 this year, Steve Morris from Eventful Management got in touch and asked if we could discuss a “new business-focused conference on SharePoint.” Eventful Management have a history of creating business-focused conferences and communities around SAP, and based on their track record, Microsoft asked if they […]
Yesterday afternoon I had an hour at law firm Lewis Silkin in London. I met with Jan Durant and Carol Skinner for an demonstration of their document management system for SharePoint. A few years ago they determined that their current document management system (Open Text DM 5) was […]
Bayer Material Science is implementing Lotus Connections. The intent is to provide tools to support people to collaborate better. Providing tools is one (small) part of the overall roadmap to success – it would be great to learn more about the BMS “Personalized WorkPlace Program” too – although […]
Jane McConnell has started to share the conclusions of the 5th Annual Global Intranet Trends report and survey, including the five key megatrends. 1. The intranet is becoming the front-door into the “workplace web” (the overall landscape of content, services, tools and applications people need to do their […]
For the past few years, Step Two Designs in Australia have facilitated a global awards program to uncover innovative work being done by intranet teams around the world. Step Two has recently released the results of its award programme for 2010. Here’s how Step Two position the program: […]
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