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When I got to the venue I had 45 minutes to get myself sorted out prior to kick off so I opened my room ranch sliders and could hear; nail gun, minor birds and children in the pool. I'm not sure what worried me more the thought of minor birds with nail guys or children in a pool with them :-).
That was about the last simple thought I've had since lunchtime.
Apart from my splitting head when the conversation swung around to Microsoft "surface" and the difficulties of "apple" products again I knew it was time to go to bed.
Arriving on Kiwi time I was starving by lunchtime and I hadn't had time to go out to the shops (if there are some, I still haven't got a sim card for my phone).
Tip 1 - Beg borrow or steal a Sim card, there were only Vodofone ones available in Brisbane airport at rather steep prices. Lucky for me I'd sorted out getting the train from the airport down and thanks to Queensland rail I had free wifi for the whole trip so I got out the emails I'd backed up on the plane and answered a couple of others.
Tip 2 - (and I should have remembered it from when I used to go to the US and UK for work) DON'T travel long distances on the same day you have to do hard cognitive work. I was up at 3am NZ time to be here at 12 noon AU time (about 11hours). Now it's nine oclock local time and I'm absolutely stuffed.
Through the introductions in the afternoon and team exercises I've been lucky enough to get to talk with most of the "faculty", the folks organising and presenting at the event. I tweeted the first section of the day where they introduced themesleves https://twitter.com/#!/search/%40dorjem%20%23cli2012
The first part of the afternoon brought up that this event operates under the Chatham house rules. As one attendee put it "what goes on tour stays on tour". Puts me in a bit of a quandary as I've been asked to blog about the event. I'll just have to use my judgement as I go along and take out people and organisations things where necessary.
We got back our Belbin team role assessments - I'm supposed to look them over and answer another questionaire tonight but I'm off to bed and possibly Yoga in the morning,
The participants are a very varied crew; I've spoken with house renovators, electrical engineers, people who've built roads in Western Australia and computer science majors; all of whom are now up and comming in the University IT world. To a fault interesting and more importantly interested. I'm just sorry I'm being Nigel No Mates and heading to bed so soon.
From an intranet perspective it has been and interesting day - several people are working through very challenging intranet implementations in both large and small organisations. One item of note is that I've had two talk to me about the overhead associated with SharePoint. In both cases we agreed that there is something to be said for scripted languages e.g PHP because they allow for more rapid, lower infrastructure, less trained staff to actually make a difference in days rather than weeks.
I'm looking forward to my brain working tomorrow and getting some more details around these experiences.
Dorje
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