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Top ten reasons why your boss should sign off on Intranets2012

Written by , published February 15th, 2012

Categorised under: Conferences & presentations

Talking with intranets teams throughout Australia (and beyond), there’s no doubt that everyone wants to attend Intranets2012 in Sydney on May 16-18. We recognise, however, that is can be a challenge to get sign-off and budget from the boss.

So to help you make the case, these are our top ten reasons why your boss should sign off on Intranets2012:

  1. It’s cheaper than an international airfare. Australia is a long way from the rest of the world, making it harder for us to benefit from the best of global thinking. So we’ve brought in speakers from the US, UK, Singapore and New Zealand.
  2. It saves reinventing the wheel. Intranets are hidden away within organisations, making it practically impossible to find out what others are doing. So we’ve packed the conference with hand-picked case studies showing what can and should be done.
  3. You’ll bring back practical ideas and approaches. The mix of talks will provide many practical ideas and insights that can be put into action immediately.
  4. A problem shared is a problem halved. Make career-long connections with other intranet teams, allowing you to “call a friend” when in need of examples or solutions.
  5. It’s an opportunity to see the future. Alongside practical case studies and hands-on techniques, Intranets2012 will share the leading edge of thinking, helping to guide future visions and plans.
  6. It’s the only conference of its kind in Australia. This is the only true conference for intranet folks, by intranet folks. It’s also completely vendor and sponsor free, so you won’t be paying to receive product pitches.
  7. Everyone else will be there. This isn’t one of those so-called “conferences” with 20 people in a room. Instead, there will be over 100 enthusiastic attendees, and two parallel streams of talks.
  8. Intranets2012 is ideal preparation for an upcoming intranet project. If an intranet revamp or redesign is planned, the conference will provide the knowledge needed to deliver a great new site.
  9. Intranets2012 is an investment in your business. Great intranets deliver tangible benefits for the organisations they support, and this conference will show you how.
  10. Even intranet teams need some fun. Running intranets can be challenging (and sometimes thankless), so Intranets2012 will provide a much-needed energy boost for hard-working teams.

See you at Intranets2012, and don’t forget that early-bird rates close in a month (March 15).

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  1. Martin White commented on February 15th, 2012

    Here are eight more reasons

    11. What you will learn and the people you will meet will last for at least a year so divide the cost by 12 and look at it on a monthly basis.

    12. Or divide the cost amongst all the people who use the intranet and point out to your manager that it’s probably less than the cost of a cup of coffee per person per year.

    13. I’ve heard William Amurgis and Michael Sampson speak at events around the world and they are two of the most inspiring people in this business that you could ever hope to meet.

    14. In my keynote I will prove that there is a direct connection between a highly successful science fiction novel and a highly successful intranet without using a single PowerPoint slide. Now you wouldn’t want to miss that, would you?

    15. Not only is it the only conference of its type in Australia there is only one other conference like it (the IntraTeam event in Copenhagen this month) in the rest of the world, and that is a very expensive air fare indeed from Australia!

    16. Arguably intranets have not changed much for over a decade. I wrote a report on intranet management in 1997 and most of it is still relevant! But mobile, social intranets, digital workplaces and much more are providing great opportunities for intranet managers to transform the way in which organisations work and compete, and you’ll hear about all these at Intranets 2012.

    17. I’m coming all the way from Horsham UK (which James Darlot liked so much when he visited us on holiday in 1842 that he named Horsham VIC after it) just to meet you, and if you don’t come I’ll be very disappointed!

    18. You can take part in the Battle of the Workshop Presenters on the Friday morning. The person with the fewest delegates has to buy the other two presenters dinner at Wolfies Grill in The Rocks, so I really need you to sign up for my User Requirements Workshop.

    I’d have liked to have come up with ten more, but I need the time to prepare my presentation and workshop. For Intranets 2012 only the best is good enough.

    See you in Sydney? Of course I will!