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It's that time of year again and together with BrightStar we've got a great Intranet conference for all those New Zealand Intranet folks, starting next week. For those of you who may be following the action in the alternate channels I thought I'd post the Agenda and the hash tag for everyone to use Monday and Tuesday next week. I've had a hell of a couple of weeks so I'm really looking forward to seeing some great presentations, hearing some super questions and learning a lot. James Robertson of StepTwo designs is giving the key note, so expect to be challenged. Hash tag for the event # nzIntSum 09 - looking forward to your blog and twitter posts Agenda 9th Annual Strategic Intranet Summit Day One, Monday, 31 August 2009 9:00am Opening Remarks from the Chair Dorje McKinnon, Intranet Overseer SUNGARD SYSTEMS NZ LTD 9:10am Keynote Address: Building Momentum for the Intranet Team James Robertson, Managing Director STEP TWO DESIGN PTY LTD 10:00am CASE STUDY: R

Jane McConnell has asked me to remind you there are only a few days before the 4Th Annual global intranet strategies survey will close, at the end of August. I’ve worked with Jane on this for a couple of years [Disclosure: I have helped, unpaid, Jane improve the report by being an opinionated fellow from across the sea] and can highly recommend participation. If you fill in the survey you get a free copy of the Trends Report, Jane’s analysis of the data. It is really great material and helps with many aspects related to running an intranet. How to sign up to participate this year http://tinyurl.com/lmrsxh Some preliminary findings: - The intranet as the single point of entry into the online workplace is beginning, with approximately 15 % of the organizations saying this is already the case. - Home pages are primarily news-based (60 %) versus navigational or work tool-based. - Social networking applications (such as Facebook) are still rare, existing in fewer than 15% of the organizatio

Recently I was asked " What are the top 10 points you think are important to get across to staff at all levels in an organisation about Yammer? " My initial reaction was "Tough ask", mainly because I've seen great write ups on what organisations get out of Yammer but very few that talk directly to the user benefits. Many articles give the usual cop out "users can't see the point, until they get it" I admit I was in that boat when I started using Twitter, a public micro blogging platform. But just like they said "once I used it I got it". What they didn't say was that it took a while and it suits certain people better than others. So as with all things in the social media space, be aware that culture change not the technology may be your biggest challenge. So what does Yammer, a microblogging platform for organisational use , do for real employees that is compelling enough for them to spend the time to "Get it" ? First off Y