Intranet incentives

My Edmonds cookbook

The following is one of the many ways of "influencing" those you need on side to do intranets well!
It is also great for those folks that help you out with paper prototyping and usability studies, I bake mine in muffin tins so that I can give each participant one.

Edmond's Banana Cake (Page 18, of my book)
Add the ingredients to a bowl in the order listed, mixing constantly
125g (4oz) butter (soft, or part melted)
175g (6oz) white sugar
cream together
2 eggs
2 mashed bananas (we put brown ones from the fruit bowl in the freezer until you need them and then use those)
mix ingredients

Put two tablespoons of full fat milk in a cup and boil in the microwave. Add 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda. Mix till mixture is frothy.

Add frothy bicarb/milk to the main bowl.

Add one teaspoon of baking powder to 225g (8oz) white flour, sift into the mail bowl of ingredients

Mix well.

Bake in muffin or cake tins at 180 degrees Celsius (350F) for 20 mins or until brown and skewer comes out clean.

Deliver to those who need help with your intranet :-)

How do you incentivize participation in your work with Intranets ?

DorjeM

Comments

Unknown said…

ass = add??

July 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM

Dorje McKinnon said…

Thanks Rachel - You're quite right, I really shouldn't try to cook and type at the same time. At least the banana cake muffins I made on the weekend came out well, shame about my blog post ;-)

Many thanks

DorjeM

July 13, 2009 at 8:56 AM

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