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I've just been got on to the IBF24 intranets live event and the very first thing I find is David Sachs - Yammer founder - citing my old stomping ground SunGard and how Cris Conde appreciated the organisation flattening value in Yammer. I am lucky enough to have benefited directly from Yammer putting me directly in touch with Chris despite being about 10 managers seperated from him in the Org structure when I was working for SunGard. His comments directly to staff made a huge difference to the culture of the organisation - one of the really very valuable aspects of tools like Yammer. Who says serendipity doesn't play a part in the world ? :-) More on the benefits of Yammer I've previously posted

I've been asked to present a Live Intranet tour for the Intranet Benchmarking Forum's 24 hour event in a couple of days. I've blogged about the IBF intranet's live online meetings previsously, this time I'll be presenting for their second (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) Intranets 24 hour event. Over the span of 24 hours the IBF team will be hosting a huge number of world leading intranet live tours and a large number of intranet thought leaders. Interestingly they've adopted the "digital workplace" as a sub title for the event. This is a theme of web workplace or digital workplace was originally raised by Jane McConnell on her blog Globally Local and Locally Global. It is great to see because the term intranet is so far from the reality for many organisations in this day and age. Attendance is FREE and I'd highly recommend anyone with an interest in intranets attend. It is on 2nd and 3rd of June so SOON. For your free ticket to attend you

IMSNZ10 Chair outlining summary of day 1 After two great days in Wellington, thanks Brightstar and Julian Carver , here are the key points from my presentation. Key points of my presentation about "Social computing - organisational collaboration and engagement" Don't jump in boots and all Have a strategy Ensure the strategy has goals, actions, measures [I really like how Carmine Porco of Prescient Digital Media puts this] Ask the hard question "In spending time and $$ on this social computing tool what aspect of our organisation's goals are we helping to achieve ? and how will we know it's working?" I've created a list of resources I used to come up with my presentation tagged on Delicious with IMSNZ10 . I'd like to thank the large number of people who asked questions during the summit, and particularly those who queried my presentation. One of the interesting questions asked that struck a cord with me was "How do we be

Tim Bernes-Lee gives birth to Social Media [while trying to resolve Knowledge management at CERN] Next week is the 8th annual New Zealand Information Management summit (hash tag #imsnz10) and I'm stepping into the lions den with my social media hat on. Until I started preparing for this event I'd not realised the degree of rivalry that exists between some sectors of the Knowledge Management world and the Social Media world. Outlined particularly by Venkatesh Roa and Robert Swanwick but also reinforced by the extensive articles on the development of KM by Nancy Dixon. With this forewarning I’ve been collating what I can , in expectation of a number of curly questions from the audience, using delicious . These links and an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review I came across about the benefits of giving up control will I hope see me right. Together with some useful lessons from social media usage where I’m working now I’m looking forward to IMSNZ10 . Wha