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This post will appear as I'm giving the talk that it relates to in Sydney at Intranets 2012 . The title for the talk was The "I don’t want to learn anything new" intranet — a SharePoint intranet for 21 to 75 year olds I'm sad that one quote I really wanted to get into the talk was from James Robertson who when I got my job said James: Congratulations. I'll be really surprised if you can achieve anything. Dorje: Thanks, but why ? James: You got a job at a university. But you do have one thing going for you . . . . . it's a small university. Now in large part I got the job I have thanks to James and his then team Catherine and Cairo. So this post is a thanks to them, and an a little dig at James in that I did achieve something. I'll share the slides via SlideShare. The blog is to provide some background to some of the slides and provide a way for those in the session to ask questions when it suits them. So please post your questions.  ...

because twitter have blocked me I'm blogging Dean's talk Employees publish - senior managers "NO WAY!" Where is fear coming from of social intranets for C level managers ? Came up with mock screen capture deck. Modified each one with more and more social features. Successive ones moved from third to first person. Then added microblog to the screen capture. Then changed top microblog item to be more and more inflammatory. Planned trigger points - non-related information / personal opinions / information mildly inflamatory used microblog posts to introduce the trigger points. Then went through captures with WHY they bothered C level managers in during interviews. Were looking for "reach for the phone moment" Eight major concerns, 3 were US business law related Top 5  (may or may not be legitimate concerns, these are fears) lack of social filters, some things JUST don't get talked about at work e.g. bald ceo comes back from holiday wit...

I've at Intranets2012 and Twitter have just stopped me tweeting #intranets2012 damn!!! I've hit my twitter daily limit of 1000 tweets 11:42 am Syd time https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364# anyone know how to get around this ?!!

Photo adapted from Magnus_d For those of you who know Gerry McGovern you'll be used to his "shock and awe" tactics. I was glad to see that he knows about Jame's little get together in Sydney next week and as such shot a broadside across the bows of this upcoming soirée. Gerry's article was titled THE REAL REASON WHY INTRANETS AREN’T WORKING ! Just about enough to get some goats going. I agree with Gerry that most intranets, would you believe even the ones I've worked on, are indeed "a swamp of gross inefficiencies". I'm picking that the great and good of the Intranet world in Asia Pacific, present at Intranets 2012 will provide some insights into how to begin draining the swamp and providing "digital workplaces" where the staff are moved out of the "suck zone" faster and more quickly become "minimum badass users" [as per Kathy Sierra's presentation at Webstock 2012]. Several of the responses to Ge...

The article online The first of a couple of personal blog posts just prior to heading over to speaking at Intranets 2012 in Sydney next week. I live in Lyttelton, New Zealand. We've had a bit of a rough time recently, but because of the wonderful people who live here I love being part of the Whakaraupo (Lyttelton) basin. One of the great characters around our town (even though he lives around the corner in Red Cliffs) is Aaron Tokona. Since the earthquakes I've been lucky enough to catch up with Aaron at two local social events, where he shared his love through his skills as a musician and show man. In both cases he went beyond the call of duty because of his personal relationship to the people who were having the events and the community. The impetus for this post was an article in a local magazine Avenues , that interviewed Aaron. What really stood out to me was how Aaron's personality came through in the article. To me Aaron embodies being true to your ...