Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: Setting up and intranet governance framework in the context of decentralised publishing by Ernst Décsey, United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesFaced with the challenge of setting up decentralising content publishing using a new web content management system, UNHCR were challenged by senior management to provide publi (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: Global Intranet Trends For 2010 - Towards The Workplace Web - Jane McConnell, NetStrategy/JMCMy early morning Ryanair flight from Stansted must've caught a tailwind, because I arrive twenty minutes early, catch the bus into town and arrive to hear the end of Jane's spot, the first public presentation of the results of her f (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: If there's one thing I will take away from the J. Boye 2009 conference in Aarhus, it's the benefit of reading a bus timetable properly. Having confused destination and starting point, I have just been driven at high speed to Billund airport to catch my flight home. Hearing the above words spoken by a taxi driver normally wo (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: The publicity for last night's London Area Communicators' Group October Meetup was intriguing: based around social networking, it would take place in Clerkenwell Theatre and feature a group of actors. Unsurprisingly given such novelty, it filled up quickly.Arriving early after an energising stroll up from the Thames, I was (Read More)

Aug 27, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: Two excellent presentations at yesterday's Intranetters event: Rod McLean of London Underground spoke about the challenges he's faced and what he's achieved with LU's intranet since joining in January, while Brian Dobson of Transport For London showed a slightly more mature product in TFL's "Source". Arriving five minutes i (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: Off to University College London yesterday afternoon to see Dave Snowden's presentation for The International Society for Knowledge Organisation.This amounted to Dave's Introduction to Complexity lecture, which I've now seen three times in the last six months, so perhaps it's time to delve a bit deeper into the material.Non (Read More)

Jun 26, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: I spent much of May and June either pointing video cameras at senior executives or huddling over an editing suite to enhance their ruminations on career management. We've collected stories we'll share through an internal on-line elearning tool whose goal is to encourage people to take responsibility for managing their own c (Read More)

Jul 14, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: in situ:'s Winter's Tale group reassembled on Saturday to put the performance back together in a weekend. One actor not returning had been replaced with another member of the group who was unavailable for Saturday, so we spent most of the day revising the order of scenes and remembering the transitions. Having spent two wee (Read More)

Aug 20, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: Spending too long inside one organisation can distort your view of reality. I like to keep my feet on the ground by meeting people from other organisations and listening to them talk about their intranets and attitudes to social media. If nothing else, listening to people talk about their KM experiences at events like Gurte (Read More)

Aug 26, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: I've just finished David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous. From the opening story about the prototype shop stationer Staples uses to design more effective experiences for shoppers to the final coda about the lack of structure in an ephemera shop, Weinberger tells thoughtful stories to outline his ideas, most of whic (Read More)

Aug 25, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: No sooner had I composed yesterday's post when David Gurteen tweeted this TED talk in which Dan Pink talks how rewards narrow focus and restrict possibilities in creative tasks: Dan quotes research by Dr. Bernd Irlenbusch of the London School of Economics: "We find that financial incentives... can result in a negative impac (Read More)

Aug 24, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: I read the following sentence in a recent job description : "We work to treat staff, customers and collaborators with dignity and respect..." and the more I thought about it, the more remarkable it seemed.Imagine employees being treated as people instead of resources. You'd never hear the phrase "Can I borrow you?" (to whic (Read More)

Feb 01, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: "When Arthur had been a boy at school, long before the Earth had been demolished, he had used to play football. He had not been at all good at it, and his particular speciality had been scoring own goals in important matches. Whenever this happened he used to experience a peculiar tingling round the back of his neck that wo (Read More)

Apr 22, 2009

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: "The Quiet Revolution"Despite having worked in Knowledge Management for around six years, I've never yet seen Euan Semple speak. An odd omission which was happily rectified last night at the National Audit Office which hosted April's Melcrum Communicators' Network London MeetupEuan talks a lot of what to me seems commonsens (Read More)

Dec 30, 2008

Submitted by Richardhare from blog: I quite like Ash, but I couldn't say I was a fan. Twice I saw them support U2 in Dublin on the Popmart Tour in 1997, but I only really got interested once they'd released an album their record company was dubious about and the band funded itself - got to respect that.I actually bought this as a Christmas present for an ex-g (Read More)

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