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Why legal intranets lets users down!

Posted on January 26, 2016
For anyone who manages an intranet in a law firm, a recent webinar by BA Insight will definitely be of interest. Called "Why Legal Intranets Let Users Down"The Webinar starts with an introduction to the four main issues that BA Insight see as being the most significant problems with Legal intranets...

The future of enterprise tech-nolo-gy!

Posted on January 04, 2016
It's hot and chrismassy...a win win situation!It seems odd to be writing about something in 2016, that took place in 2015. But that's exactly what I'm doing in this post, which as you may have spotted is called "The future of enterprise tech-nolo-gy.This was in fact a webinar from the team at Brightstarr in which they looked at the following:The biggest digital workplace trends from 2015The need to know Microsoft developments from 2015 and how these changes are affecting intranet solutionsWhat's hot in enterprise collaboration for 2016Lets cut right to the chase, whilst the developments within Microsoft might be interesting, what we're really interested in are the predictions for 2016...

Social, to Knowledge Management's Rescue?

Posted on November 16, 2015
Two articles recently published on the CMS Wire website have caught my attention because they mention both Social and Knowledge Management, two of my favourite subjects :-)In the first article called "Social to Knowledge Management's Rescue" the author looks at how Knowledge Management has been brought back to life by Enterprise Social Networking (ESN's) tools and other social tools...

Intranet Resources - October 2015

Posted on November 13, 2015
I can't believe how quickly this year is passing us all by, I'll soon be putting up Christmas decorations and then taking them down again, but before we all start thinking (even more) about Christmas, it's time for a round-up of some of the intranet resources I have seen recently...

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Intranet screenshots & Insights from the leading edge of intranets

Posted on October 26, 2015
Earlier this month I listened to a Step Two webinar called Intranet Screenshots & Insights from the leading edge of intranets.For anyone not familiar with Step Two they are an Australian company that help plan and design online solutions for organisations and their employees...

Making social collaboration work - MWD Advisors conference

Posted on October 23, 2015
On Thursday the 15th of October I attended the Making Social Collaboration Work masterclass, MWD Advisors. Through the power of Twitter I was lucky enough to win a free place, so was looking forward to hearing from other practitioners on how they were implementing social technologies...

The Digital Workplac?e: Can your Intranet do M?ore to Drive Engagement??

Posted on October 22, 2015
Are you?!Earlier this week I attended a Brightstarr event called The Digital Workplac?e: Can your Intranet do M?ore to Drive Engagement For anyone who hasn't heard of Brightstarr they are an award winning "digital design company" that works with Microsoft products to build intranets; usually using SharePoint on-premise and SharePoint online/Office 365, although they have recently started using their own product Unily to provide an intranet as a service to organisations...

Leprechauns and Donkeys - The Royal Parks 1/2 Marathon 2015

Posted on October 21, 2015
On Sunday the 11th of October myself and two of my club-mates from Gravesend Road Runners ran the Royal Parks 1/2 Marathon. The last time I ran this half marathon was in 2010 when I stumbled round the course in a time of 1:57:58. I really enjoyed it despite a slow time for me and pledged to run it again in future...

Intranet resources - September 2015

Posted on September 30, 2015
Christmas...seriously!Well this year is whizzing along very rapidly, I actually saw Christmas Cards in a shop last night (it's September shops seriously!) anyway back to the point of this post, which is to highlight some intranet articles I have read in the last month...

Interaction intranet conference 2015

Posted on September 24, 2015
On the 17th of September I was fortunate to be able to book a place at the Interaction intranet conference, which is organised by Interact intranet.  I've attended this conference for the last few years and have written about how excellent it is a number of times...

The agony and the ecstasy - Mount Ephraim 10k

Posted on September 22, 2015
Race bling!Well time certainly flies when you are having fun and given how long it has been since I last posted Mount Ephraim 10k, which took place on the 23rd of August.that would definitely seem to be the case. So to break the cycle of not publishing anything to this blog a short report here on the First a bit about Mount Ephraim first, this is a beautiful location near Faversham, which we have previously visited and enjoyed, not just for the beautiful gardens and Arboretum, but also for the house where If I recall (it was a long time ago) we enjoyed some delicious cakes...

Round and round we go...Gravesend Cyclopark 10k

Posted on August 23, 2015
It has been a while since I have posted a blog, so for those of you interested in my running a report here on the Gravesend Cyclopark 10k which I ran on the 7th of August. This event is organised by Nice Work on behalf of Gravesend Road Runners, which is the running club I run with...

Changing the intranets conversation

Posted on July 27, 2015
Changing of the guardAn article on the CMS Wire website that has garnered much attention from the intranet community on Twitter and other sites is an article called "Changing the Intranets Conversation"In the article, the author begins by looking at why modern intranets have so much baggage...

Running a virtual race...or two...

Posted on July 25, 2015
POW Virtual Runner 10k medalFor those of you who following my running on Runkeeper or Strava (probably not many) you may have noticed that I've been running a few "virtual" races recently. These aren't races where you sit on your sofa with a virtual reality headset on and pretend to run, but are in fact races where you receive a medal but you don't attend an actual race...

Intranet resources - June 2015

Posted on July 01, 2015
This is becoming something of a habit now, which is probably a good thing. This month I have found 5 articles on intranets which I found particularly intranet. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!If you're looking for a good introduction to Office 365 groups then you need look no further then an article con the CMS Wire website called "What are Office 365 groups" the reason for the blog post as explained in the introduction is because of the confusion Microsoft have caused with the introduction of these groups...

Intranet and other useful resources - May 2015

Posted on June 22, 2015
This is another installment of my irregular column highlighting useful intranet and for the first timeNuggets..but not this kind!Knowledge Management resources.We start with a post written by Steven Bynghall called "The Bumpy Ride to Dialogue on Your Social Intranet" in the post Steve looks at how the introduction of social tools and features can lead to a level of "nervousness" amongst Senior Managers and especially individuals working in risk...

What's new for intranets in SharePoint 2016?

Posted on June 20, 2015
In what could be considered a follow up* to the SharePoint 2016 webinar I wrote about recently Sam Marshall has written an interesting blog post called SharePoint 2016 - what's new for intranets"In the post Sam looks more closely at what SharePoint 2016 offers those individuals who manage intranets...

SharePoint 2016 webinar

Posted on June 19, 2015
What is there to look forward to in the next version of SharePoint? That's the question looked at in an Sam Marshall of Clearbox Consulting and Michael Pisarek of Dynamic Owl and Bonzai intranet.excellent webinar that was run by If you're interested in watching/listening to the webinar you can do so by click on this link, alternatively you can read my summary of the webinar below...

Harvel 5 2015

Posted on June 15, 2015
The medal which doubles as a bottle openerA late race report here on the fantastic Harvel 5 race, which took place on the 6th of June. I last ran this race way back in 2009, where I clocked a very respectable 36:56, but I was hoping for better this time around...

Intranetters meeting - May 2015

Posted on June 09, 2015
Intranetters...not intraknitters!Last month I was lucky enough to bag a ticket to attend the latest Intranetters meetings. Intranettters meeting are informal gatherings of intranet managers and other information professionals, during which the group are usually given a tour of a couple of intranets...

Why it is all about collaboration!

Posted on May 26, 2015
There have been numerous and I mean really quite a lot of articles published recently on the CMS wire website about Collaboration. This is of course a very important topic, especially if you're involved in the management of an intranet or digital workplace and is a subject I have written about a number of times on this blog...

The internet of things an introduction

Posted on May 23, 2015
The Internet of Things (IoT) isn't a subject I've written about on this blog before, mostly because I don't believe it is a subject that can be easily explained in a short blog post and I like to keep my blog posts relatively short.If you are looking for an introduction to this very interesting concept then you may wish to take a look at this article on the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers website called "The Internet of Things: an introduction" In it the author provides a brief introduction to the concept of IoT and some of the technologies that we're seeing being introduced into everyday life...

The organisation in the digtal age

Posted on May 21, 2015
Jane McConnell (NetJMC) has just released The Organisation in the Digital Age, the 2015 edition of her global survey of the way in which digital workplaces are being implemented within organisations. If you haven't heard of this publication before now it's a extremely well regarded publication which has been published for a number of years...

Is history repeating itself in your organisation?

Posted on May 14, 2015
An article on the CMS wire blog that I think many intranet managers will be interested in is an article by Nigel Williams called "Is history repeating itself in your organisation"In the article Nigel Williams discusses that whilst Enterprise Social Networking tools have become ubiquitous short sightedness is preventing organisations from making the most of these tools...

Can you really be social at work?

Posted on May 12, 2015
I seem to have neglected my blog again so to stop that right in the tracks I thought I'd highlight an article I read recently, which is well worth having a look at. The article called "Can we really be social at work?" is a report on a South by Southwest (SXSW) session which looked at the use of collaborative tools within an organisation...

The changing face of corporate information services

Posted on March 31, 2011
Last night I attended the SLA Europe organised event "The changing face of corporate information services ? new service models and partnerships" this was billed as an opportunity to hear about how Information Services are being delivered to customers in the new world of outsourcing and was unsurprisingly very well attended with a number of familiar faces and Tweeters in the audience including KDPlee, BarbaraGordon, Tinamreynolds, LibClare, Nataliafay and MichaelRobsonI'm certain there were other people tweeting from the event, including Greg Simidian CEO of Perfect Information and another Librarian who I met very briefly after the event so apologies to them for not including their Twitter accounts here...

Could we be more collaborative?

Posted on March 31, 2011
Two interesting articles here on how companies are missing out on or doubt the benefits of collaboration tools. The first from Read Write Web called "Companies doubt benefits of collaboration tools" reports on a survey undertaken by Forrester which looked at the benefits associated with using Social Media:"...

SharePoint training not required

Posted on March 30, 2011
In SharePoint, Training not required Lorette S.J. Weldon looks at how Librarians can use SharePoint without necessarily having to undertake SharePoint training or understand complex coding language. From her article on the LLRX.com website:"The secret (to SharePoint)...

SharePoint as an Intranet or as Collaboration platform?

Posted on March 28, 2011
Apologies to anyone who doesn't watch Harry Hill, but to coin a phrase from his TV show. I like SharePoint as an Intranet and I like SharePoint as a collaboration platform, but which is better? There's only one way to decide....FIGHT...no not really....

CLSIG AGM and Professionalism Seminar

Posted on March 25, 2011
Earlier this week I attended the CLSIG AGM and Professional Seminar the latter run by Susie Kay. The venue was the always impressive City Business Library, which I've now been to a total of 2 times in 6 months despite working in the City for 11 years...

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