In the final session of Intranets2011, James Robertson of Step Two Designs is presenting on “what makes an essential Intranet?” The room is almost full – for two reasons: (1) it’s the final keynote of the conference by the conference chair, and (2) at the conclusion of his […]
In the second-to-last session for the day at Intranets2011, Melissa Hendry from REA Group talked about their social intranet journey. Key points: – Two years ago, the new CEO introduced a new strategy: out-innovate and out-execute competitors. This needed they had to break down some walls. – Goals […]
Daniel from Zevenseas talked about socializing SharePoint at Intranets2011. Key point: – What is social computing? Does it mean anything? Daniel believes there is a lot of snake oil, but equally, there is value here. – In the old days, knowledge management was about taking knowledge out of […]
After lunch here at Intranets2011, Damien from DEEWR talking about designing a governance framework in the real world. Key points: – There are different forces pushing and pulling when doing Intranet governance. It feels “weird” and “confusing.” – Argument1: We’re looking at governance the wrong way. There’s lots […]
Natalie is the Information Management Coordinator at Queensland University of Technology. She’s talking about collaboration and SharePoint at the University. Key points: – Until recently, SharePoint was not managed. It was introduced about 8 years ago, in a single department (under someone’s desk). Got to 9 different SharePoint […]
After the keynote this morning (which was my presentation) at Intranets2011, James Dellow kicked into creating a social workplace with your intranet. See James on the web at chieftech.com.au. Key points: – Companies are made out of people. Starting question: after you’ve explained “social” to a CxO, what […]
At Intranets2011, Hugh from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia is talking about evolving an intranet team as an intranet evolves with SharePoint. Key points: – Mid-2008 – 250 authors requesting publication of simple changes. 50-60 change requests per day. Required 6 people full time to keep the Intranet […]
Andrew from CIBA Solutions talked about intranet features that staff love, here at Intranets2011. He talked about the intranet from an end user perspective. Key points: – What’s most important to an intranet that’s valuable? Highest three – (a) finding information, (b) content quality, and (c) performance and […]
After a great lunch at Intranets2011, Karina and Ellen from the Department of Education & Training in NSW talked about the use of Yammer. The two speakers talked about three success stories. Key points: – (Success story) For a teacher struggling with finding English language support for a […]
In the fourth session of the day, and the final presentation before lunch at Intranets2011, Matthew C. Clarke talked about the importance of change management in intranet projects. Key points: – Why do so many intranet projects fail? Matthew asked whether attendees have change management resource on Intranet […]
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