When she heard that I’d be in Atlanta for the Share 2012 conference, Lisa Duke from Simplified Technology Solutions asked if I’d be willing to present on user adoption at a lunchtime session on Monday April 23—we discussed the tentative details, and I agreed. Lisa and I, along […]
On The Smarter Office blog last week, I posted Executive Support for New Initiatives—Four Thoughts, and What’s Your Experience?: “In three and a bit weeks I’ll be in Atlanta for the first Share Conference in the United States. The Share Conference is all about bringing together business users […]
On The Smarter Office blog, I asked earlier this week How Do You Collaborate Best?: “There are many ways of collaborating — working with other people towards a common outcome. Collaboration enjoys a broad definition, and thus can support many styles. Being gregarious, loud, and larger-than-life may be […]
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending and speaking at AusLUG 2012 in Melbourne. I was only able to attend for the day, in light of my other recent and upcoming travel commitments … which made for an awfully long day. I was up at 2.20am in New […]
My trip for Share 2012 has expanded. I’ll be in the United States for the week prior to the conference, delivering a two-day in-house workshop on user adoption for a client in Seattle. I have two days available at the end of that week for another consulting or […]
IGLOO Software announced a partnership with MicroStrategy, for the integration of MicroStrategy’s business intelligence tools into IGLOO’s social business suite: “The solution will allow IGLOO customers to track user participation, influence, activity and engagement in a social intranet or extranet. As social technologies are introduced to business, workflow […]
Over on The Hub Designs Network, Dan recently wrestled with the topic of getting executive buy-in. The article is filled with good pragmatic advice, and this gem leapt off the page: “Constantly be trying to build bridges and relationships between yourself and different parts of the business. Executive […]
In my book Collaboration Roadmap, I write about the place of executive support in adoption of new collaboration technologies and approaches to work. When executives get behind new approaches – in deeds more than just words – the results are impressive. But I also make it clear that […]
In 25 days I’ll be boarding one of Air New Zealand’s Boeing 777-300ER planes and heading to Los Angeles, and then taking a couple of domestic flights in the United States to get to Atlanta. My long-haul flight this time is for the inaugural SharePoint Conference in the […]
Writing for the Harvard Business Review blog network, Tammy Erickson talks about the role of organizational hubs to encourage and enhance collaboration. The “hub” is a person who curates what’s going on and both shares it more widely in the organization and also suggests connections for people who […]
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