DorjeM

I'm priviledged to have, and have had, exceptional friends and loved ones during my life. I've not always taken the opportunites presented, to let them know how I feel about them and how much I appreciate their support respect and love. Despite my father's sage advice to do just that. An autumn night... don't think your life, didn't matter Matsuo Basho

Serendipity Thanks to staff within my organisation (BR) and people like Chris Brogan , Cairo Walker and James Robertson the past couple of weeks have been very interesting for me because they've drawn togeather ideas I've been exposed to for a while. I think they've clicked. The following is the true story of how serendipity helped save elephants - believe me it does relate to social media within the firewall. “Moses lives in Africa, works for a large global organisation and is responsible for elephant human conflict resolution. Abraham lives in India, works for the same large global organisation and is also responsible for elephant human conflict resolution. Moses grew up in the African bush, where there is a kids story that a bee (rather than a mouse) can scare elephants. Moses noticed that those villages who kept beehives had less elephant conflict events than other villages, all other factors being equal. To test his theory he put beehives in those villages with the m...

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 # mangrow 09 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 ht...