Articles by Category: Intranet Leadership Forum

SharePoint sessions for Intranet Leadership Forum members

Current members of our Intranet Leadership Forum have expressed an interest in deepening their understanding of SharePoint.

To that end, we've organised for Michael Sampson, a collaboration and SharePoint expert, to fly out from New Zealand. He will be running sessions for members in early April, and these will look at the business and technical side of SharePoint, including case studies, customisation, and how to fend off the SharePoint invasion.

(The sessions are just for ILF members, so this might give another good reason to join sooner rather than later.)

If you would like more details, contact Catherine Grenfell on 02 9319 7901 or catherine@steptwo.com.au.

Posted by jamesr at 11:03 AM | Permalink
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Delivering better intranets in 2008

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For the start of 2008, we have further grown the Intranet Leadership Forum, the professional community for intranet teams in Australia and New Zealand.

Following requests from current Forum members, we have now established two levels of membership:

• Corporate: three "seats" at the table, including full membership benefits
• Single: one seat at the table, including full membership benefits

This change allows organisations with larger or more dispersed teams to involve more staff in the Forum, thereby sharing the benefits more widely. Both levels of memberships continue to provide year-long support for the price of a single conference.

For more on this, and on the Intranet Leadership Forum in general, browse through the slides embedded above. Don't hesitate to contact Catherine Grenfell on (02) 9319 7901 or catherine@steptwo.com.au if you have any further questions.

Posted by jamesr at 12:34 PM | Permalink
Categories: Intranet Leadership Forum, Intranets

Brisbane get-together for intranet managers

Intranets are now a business critical part of the organisation landscape. As intranet teams the challenge is to ensure that your intranet is effective for your organisation.

Step Two Designs Brisbane office is holding an informal get-together over breakfast for Brisbane intranet managers.

Date: Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Time: 7.30am
Place: Brisbane inner city cafe (exact location to be advised depending on numbers)

So if you would like to meet other intranet managers and find out about the first workshop for the Intranet Leadership Forum in Brisbane (October 2007) please send Rebecca Rodgers an email.

Posted by jamesr at 11:53 AM | Permalink
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NZ dates for Intranet Leadership Forum

The Intranet Leadership Forum is up and running in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney and is about to launch two new chapters in Wellington and Auckland. The Forum will be kicked off with free information sessions in Auckland and Wellington:

Wellington: Friday, 24th August, 1-3pm, followed by afternoon tea
Location: Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Auckland: Monday, 27th August, 1-3pm, followed by afternoon tea
Location: University of Auckland

Each session will cover how the Intranet Leadership Forum works, as well as a special presentation on how to build innovative intranets:

• screen shots and out-takes from the 2007 Intranet Innovation Awards
• intranets of companies from around the world
• how intranets are the center of organisational change initiatives
• the best of the best staff directories, calendars and on-line sharing

Come along, meet up with other intranet mangers in your area and see examples of what is happening around the world with intranets. To register for a session send an email to catherine@steptwo.com.au stating which city you are in.

If you would like more information or want to organise a one-on-one catch up with Cairo Walker and Catherine Grenfell whilst they are in New Zealand please also contact catherine@steptwo.com.au or +61 2 9319 7901 or +61 420308071.

Posted by jamesr at 04:58 PM | Permalink
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Intranet Leadership Forum in Canberra

The Intranet Leadership Forum is up and running in Sydney and Melbourne, our first workshop in Canberra is soon. The key dates for the Canberra Chapter are:

3rd July, 2007 Where collaboration tools fit in by James Robertson

This industry briefing explores opportunity for new approaches to intranets and information management and presents an innovative and effective for model for collaboration that outlines:

• three levels of information management within organisations
• inwards and outwards focused information
• where collaboration tools should be focused
• taking a 'portfolio' approach to collaboration technologies
• managing the relationship between collaboration tools and other systems

Free for members of the Intranet Leadership Forum. A session will be held with members before the briefing to introduce members, finalise workshops dates and decide on future workshop topics.

31st July, 2007 first Canberra workshop

The topics for the workshop are selected by the members, some of the potential topics are:

• Search - How to optimise the search engine you already have including techniques and practical tips.
• The suite of Information Management applications - What they are and how they affect your organisation.
• Content producers - How to minimise the steps and constraints for staff producing content.
• Knowledge sharing - Does your intranet effectively support knowledge sharing, with tools or access to peoples expertise.
• Skills needed in an intranet team – What are the types of skills, how to share resources with other teams, when to use outside specialists.
• Web design skills for Intranets - The top 5 techniques for designing intranets, including usability, information architecture and where users expect to find common features.

Email Catherine if you'd like to know more...

Posted by jamesr at 03:20 PM | Permalink
Categories: Intranet Leadership Forum, Intranets

Mass adoption of social software

R. Todd Stephens talks about the application of the 1% participation rate to enterprises. To quote:

To keep the math simple, let us assume that we have 100,000 employees. Based on the Wikipedia numbers, we might expect to have 1,000 people updating content. Of course, that would only be in a perfect world. The actual number may only be around 100.

Posted by jamesr at 09:24 PM | Permalink
Categories: Information management, Intranet Leadership Forum, Intranets

Melbourne "kick-off" session

The Melbourne Chapter of the Intranet Leadership Forum is about to kick-off with a session on the 3rd May, 2007. In this session the members will:

• meet each other
• review the past Sydney workshops
• brainstorm key areas to focus on in the Melbourne workshops
• build the Melbourne workshop schedule
• and have an open discussion on, "Gaining management buy-in for our intranet"

So if you are about to join and are keen to provide your input please let Catherine know so we can include you on the 3rd May. For more information, see the Intranet Leadership Forum website.

Posted by jamesr at 11:33 PM | Permalink
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First Intranet Leadership Forum workshop

A date has been set for the very first quarterly workshop of the Intranet Leadership Forum. This will be held in Sydney on Wednesday 7 February, and it will be a half-day session through to lunch.

If you're thinking of joining the Intranet Leadership Forum, now is a good time to do it, so you don't miss out on the first event of the year. Contact Catherine Grenfell if you would like more details.

Posted by jamesr at 08:42 AM | Permalink
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Launch party for Intranet Leadership Forum

The Intranet Leadership Forum was successfully launched last Thursday in Sydney, with many organisations attending from both the private and public sectors. With the assistance of drinks and good food, the intranet managers in attendance quickly realised how much they had in common with other teams, both in their challenges and goals.

Don't forget all members who join by Friday 22nd December will receive a pre release copy of the latest Step Two Designs comprehensive report on intranet planning, our 6x2 methodology. Also your first year membership is extended by 2 months, renewals will not be until February 2008.

Posted by jamesr at 07:55 AM | Permalink
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Launch of the Intranet Leadership Forum

After our recent hard work, it's great to be able to officially launch the Intranet Leadership Forum. To quote:

The Intranet Leadership Forum is a professional community for intranet managers and teams in Australia and New Zealand. By joining the Forum you will have access to real-life solutions for your organisation’s intranet issues from peers who have already found the answers, saving your organisation time and money.

You will receive many benefits to improve the effectiveness of your organisation’s intranet and the skills of your team. These include workshops, best-practice toolkits and guides, a members-only website and networking opportunities.

The new website contains a considerable amount of detail on the Forum, including how the workshops will be run, sample online discussions, a sample "how-to" guide and much more.

We've also organised a launch party for those in Sydney (or nearby), details as follows:

You are invited to join us for drinks and networking to launch the new Intranet Leadership Forum

Thursday 7th December from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Swissôtel, Market Street, Sydney

Also hear James Robertson introduce his new perspectives on ’The evolution of intranets’

Register by Friday 1st December via email: register@intranetleadership.com.au
(limit of 2 people per organisation, advance registration a must to allow for catering to be finalised)

Posted by jamesr at 01:14 PM | Permalink
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