Intranet summit winning slides

The recent intranet summit in Wellington New Zealand showcased some wonderful presentations, by some very smart folks. The event was blogged by Michael Sampson for those of you wanting more details

Of the hundreds of slides shown three really stood out from the crowd. Invariably the context was very important.

The first was the following

[souce: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrfrosted/568102079/]

The second was from Grant Margison of www.informationleadership.com who showed the following slide prior to discussing SharePoint and it's role in an organisation's information framework.

[source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-ron75/243290502/]

The third was an image created by Greg Comfort who had co-opted the Jan 1973 cover of National Lampoon to illustrate how very important it is to not rely on a big stick. Giving staff compelling reasons to visit the intranet is a much better idea.

[image: Greg Comfort | idea: google images]

One thing I'm keen to provide in future for conferences is guidelines for speakers so that it is easier for people who haven't been to the event previously to pitch their talk appropriately.
If you've got any suggestions on this, or know of any conferences that do it, please leave me a comment.

Great Quote

I was just listening to Paul Reynolds (http://mcgovernonline.blogspot.com/ ) on National Radio (http://www.radionz.co.nz/ New Zealand's PBS) talking about www.Kiva.org and www.peoplesnetworknz.org.nz the quote that spoke to me was

 

                "Building it is easy, the tools are way in front of our imagination"

 

 

 

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Make it quicker - save the world

I'm keen on saving the world

 

Here are a couple of things we as intranet managers can do

 

Get your developers to use YSlow (add on for FireFox) to help them optimize your intranet.

                http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

The less CPU cycles you use, the less power and heat generated - which means a better world

 

One way you can do that is by making your images smaller

Take a look at the 'Image Optimization' power point available from the following blog post.

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/06/performance_geeks_velocity_conference_oreilly.html

 

:-)

 

 

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Quick spinner graphics

I've often been frustrated in the past by not having enough skill with image editing programs to be able to create the cool loading graphics that I see on other sites, because the site I'm working on has a background that isn't white or black.

 

The solution is

 

http://www.ajaxload.info/

 

You tell the tool what you require in the way of spinner, there a quite a few options, tell it the background color and hey presto you get given - I say given - a loading animated gif which would normally take hours to create.

 

Nice

 

:-)

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Color Colour Kuler

Wonderful resource for those who find color selection challenging at the best of times (myself included)

 

http://kuler.adobe.com/

 

Just saved my bacon for a tag cloud, representing staff skills and their abilities with those skills.

 

DM

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