In early 2011, the sky opened in Queensland with heavy rainfall in Brisbane and across South East Queensland. With Wivenhoe dam at capacity, flash flooding in Toowoomba and kind tides …

Yesterday I was honoured to give a presentation at the monthly meeting of intranet managers organised by NetJMC. These were some of the world’s largest organisations, across a range of …

SharePoint is many things, but out of the box, beautiful isn’t one of them. The boxy design and shades of blue isn’t ugly per-se, but do little to inspire adoption …

Well, Intranets2011 is over! It went very well by all accounts, and the energy in the room was remarkable. Many thanks to all the speakers and participants. As the first …

Ticker tapes were developed in the late 1880s for transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines. Nowadays we see electronic ticker tapes on the sides of large buildings or TV …

Earlier articles like Roles needed in an intranet team highlight the hard skills required to deliver successful intranets. And without doubt these will often differentiate success from failure. But nurturing …

Starting a SharePoint intranet project, whether creating a new intranet or redeveloping an existing one, can be daunting. Alongside strategy and design questions are now a myriad of technology decisions, …

Essential -adjective 1. absolutely necessary, indispensable 2. of the utmost importance In the lead up to my closing keynote at Intranets2011, I’m going to be talking about essential intranets: what …

In the last two days, I’ve given an intranet presentation to a hundred small-medium sized businesses in Sydney, and the same number again in Melbourne. These are all firms with …

A lot of organisations are currently deploying SharePoint for their corporate intranet. And rightly so, as it’s a viable and potentially powerful solution for intranet needs. Like any technology, however, …