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IBF Intranets live

I've just been up from 4am until 6am and watched the sun touch the harbour out the window.

Yep yet another joy of living at the end of the earth - and why you ask ?

Well today was the first IBF (Intranet Benchmarking Forum) Intranets Live event.

I live blogged - thanks for the inspiration Michael Sampson - the event. A first for me so apologies to those who I was recording for any mistakes, they are mine alone.

Overall an interesting session - shame it will cost so much to attend following sessions.

200 attendees from more than 20 countries, including a few hardy souls from the south pacific.

There were several technical hitches that meant we couldn't see Shiv Singh's presentation and didn't get to hear Jane McConnell at all but otherwise the mix of live and recorded material went very well. Microsoft live meeting was used to get everyone onto the web version of the presentations, and a conference bridge to get everyone onto the audio side.

I need more time to process everything but I think the SunGard AvantGard intranet stacks up pretty well against the ones that we saw today - Kellogs / CaptialOne / BT

One thing I really didn't like was the 'interlude' pieces the IBF guys pre recorded, to take up time between speakers. One was a parody of the Queen talking to Prince Philip about the internet, and there was one other I can't remember.
I can sort of see where they're coming from, they need a filler to bridge the technical change from one presenter to another. And I have some appreciation for where the humour is coming from 'english lad', from my experience (which I have to admit is limited when it comes to the UK).
BUT really guys, the IBF is a very expensive club to belong to, only some of your customers are from the UK and all your jokes were UK focused. With more than 20 countries attending I believe it would have been better to keep the tone more professional and more global. This is only my two cents worth, and as I don't have the buget to attend future Intranets live events I'm not going to find out - unless the team at IBF are keen to have a dissenting voice in the house ;-)

Was it worth getting up at 4am - Yes sirrree bob!
I'll post more on my thoughts after I get to work today.

DorjeM

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James Dellow said…
Thanks for staying up late for those of us on this side of the world! :-)
November 8, 2008 at 10:09 AM
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