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Kiwi Intranets - a little history

For my CV I just tried to document when I started the Kiwi Intranets group. It was a little harder than I thought but thanks to the Way Back Machine I found out the date. http://web.archive.org/web/20050623011812/http://www.brightstar.co.nz/calendar_conferences.htm For 5 years I'd been slaving away working on an intranet and then I suddenly discovered there was a conference about the topic! Eureka. And even better it was in Auckland rather than overseas. Yeah! And even better my boss at the time had enough training money for me to be able to go, as long as I stayed with my sister. So on August 15th 2005 I turned up at the venue in down town Auckland, tried the coffee and ran round the block to get something was coffee rather than just having a coffee label. The day blew me away, literally. I remember seeing Dan Randow and Mia Morrish speak about their respective recent activities. By the end of the day I was really buzzing and so when I left the after event drinks, I walke