One of the comments I made (at 19m40s) during my presentation at the conference here yesterday was that I was going to “rip apart” the Socialtext case study on Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (a PDF is also available). That language was a bit strong, but I do want to […]
So far I’ve written up my notes from the sessions I attended at the conference today, but apart from a couple of deviations, haven’t commented on the sessions or the presenters per se. Here’s my thoughts as the day draws to an end: James was given a difficult […]
(caught in mid-word; thanks to Julian for being photographer) About an hour after I finished giving my presentation, I had separate emails from Chris and Jon saying “Where’s the notes from that other presenter?” How cool is that! My response was “hey guys, it’s a bit hard to […]
Yes … four weeks! Eric, here’s the link you need … Mac(k) stuff
The final session of the day was Case Study: Northland Regional Council Express Portal and Intranet, presented by Jason Dawson (Community Relations Team Leader) and Tracey Morris (Online Communications Officer). Jason spoke first … The Northland Regional Council has 130 staff, with four regional offices. There are lots […]
Paul Reynolds from McGovern and Associates (who blogs at 57LittleHigh) spoke directly after lunch about Social Bookmarking: Theory into Practice. The place to start with collaboration is with 2 people. Then build out to 3, then to 4, then to 5. What is Web 2.0? Paul referred to […]
Benn Crawford and Anthony Townsend from Infinity Solutions spoke to the topic “Utilizing Wikis and Blogs to Reshape Internal Communications and Collaboration”. Benn went first … Blogs and wikis provide part of the solution. Wikis can be used for … documentation, document library, project management tool and issue […]
John Mullins, Sales Leader NZ/Australia, IBM Portals and Workplace John started by saying … “James has put forward the case for the opposition; I’m doing the case for the defense. Talking about experience and real-life results.” IBM is 329,000 employees in 64 countries. 40% of people who work […]
I’m at the Novotel Hotel in Auckland for the 6th Annual Strategic Intranet and Enterprise Portal Management conference. My notes on the various sessions. Presentation by James Robertson, Managing Director at Step Two Designs) Hottest trends for 2006 … it’s good to get excited about intranets … some […]
On August 20, 1994 I had the tremendous privilege of marrying my best friend, Katrina Radford. On Sunday we celebrated 12 years of marriage … we watched our wedding video with our children, and had a special dessert of wildberry pie and ice cream after dinner. We had […]
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