Mark Gilbert from Gartner spoke at the Gartner BI summit in Sydney recently. He said that firms shouldn’t deploy collaboration software “out of the box” – I disagree, but I disagree because I’m being pedantic, although I think it is important to be so given this is a […]
Some people write books on the future of work. To start with though, Chris has a blog post: “I think about work often. I have been both an employee and a deep thinker about work since my first jobs. Even before I was of legal age to work, […]
James announced the 9 speakers for the upcoming Intranets2011 conference in Sydney in May: Briget Lander, Telecom NZ Natalie Ryan, QUT Emily Staresina, Stockland Iain Barker, Meld Studios James Dellow, Headshift Andrew Wright, CIBA Solutions Peter Richards, Tabcorp Matthew Clarke Leonie Starawski, Pearson Australia I’m really looking forward […]
Version 2 of the iPad may be unveiled as early as next week – according to the All Things Digital blog. “Analysts expect the iPad 2 to be thinner than its predecessor and feature an improved display, as well as front-facing camera and Facetime video chat support. And […]
As a result of visiting Facet’s order page for Martin’s book, I just came across two other reviews: – Jane McConnell, “Martin White has accomplished a great piece of work that will bring a lot of benefit to a lot of intranet managers.” Read her review at the […]
I wrote a few days ago that Martin White has a new book out, called The Intranet Management Handbook. For me, this is great timing due to a couple of client projects I’m working on at the moment, and so in between following the devastation that’s happening with […]
REANNZ announced that its high-speed network and video conferencing services are available free to anyone affected by the Christchurch earthquake: “KAREN Video Conferencing Service is open and free to use for anyone affected by the Christchurch earthquake. The service is operational and available for people to link to […]
A recent article from Dale Carnegie Training offers seven tips for staying on top of organizational change. I write about change in my book on user adoption, and this article outlines a very complementary set of tips on change: “Engaging workplace change can be an unpredictable experience because […]
Monitor is a consulting firm that works with organizations to help them grow. They believe in collaboration – with clients, within the firm, and with the community. Look at the language they use to describe their culture with respect to working with each other: “Our client work is […]
I was talking with Nancy last week about collaboration, and one of the comments I made was how our educational system conditions us that collaboration is cheating. Remember at school, “working together” was taken as cheating, and we got punished for that. Once our young people hit the […]
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