Managing and Growing your Intranet 2009

Hi team,

I'm putting the finishing touches on my materials for Managing and growing your intranet 2009, training I'm giving for BrightStar, to intranet professionals in Wellington New Zealand 8 - 9 May.

I'm posting this now so that those who attend and would like to follow the conference can do so

http://tinyurl.com/mangrow09may
takes you to a google search for 'managing and growing your intranet'

The hash tag for the event is #mangrow09 if you want to follow or tweet on Twitter

Use the same tag for any of your other favorite social services ;-)

I'm citing my sources for the event using Delicious with the same tag

And for those of you hanging out for the Intranets Live coverage for the past two months - don't worry I'm still juggling processing the screen shots, computer crashes et el.

Big thanks go out to Chris Brogan for very timely tweets and sharing his thoughts on his blog.

And on that note . . . (ellipses thanks to @jonthegeologist of http://imjon.com/)

What is it about the intranet manager / overseer position that you find hard ?
For me at this instant it is being advocate for the staff upwards and being advocate for benefits to the organisation as a whole from on high.

DorjeM

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