Global Intranet Trends Report 2010 released

Jane McConnell has released this years Global Intranet Trends report to those who participated. It's not up on the NetStrategy/JMC site yet, probably because she is in Aarhus this week at the JBoye conference (wish I was there....).

This is the 4th year of the survey and thus the 4th edition of the report. I got my copy this morning as I completed the survey on behalf of my organization, but I have certainly not had time to read it, in depth, from cover to cover (but you can bet I will !).

It is an extremely valuable resource for those managing or interested in intranets, and well worth the spend (and I am comparing that to reports you would pay a lot more for, from one of the big consulting firms or analyst firms).

I am sure Jane won't me paraphrasing some bits from the executive summary in order to whet your appetites:

• This years survey has had input from 300 organizations worldwide, from less than 1,000 employees to over 100,000 employees
• Topics include intranet strategy, intranet management, business objectives for the intranet and social media use
• Three stages of intranet maturity are introduced and explained
• Five trends for the "Future Intranet" are identified and analysed

I will return to specific topics when I have read the full report properly, but I suggest you go to the NetJMC site and add it to your RSS feeds so that you know when the report is released, so that you can buy a copy - as they used to say on a TV advert for newspapers in the UK, "It's a right riveting read" (which in non-colloquial english means its really really good !)

JBoye 09 video

My good friend Line Berg, a communications professional working for Nycomed, decided that instead of writing a summary of the conference for internal distribution upon her return, she would use her little Flip video camera and ask people what they thought was the best thing about the conference, and distribute the video.

I suggested she should retrospectively ask interviewee's permission to make it public and put it on YouTube, so she did, and they all did, and here is the result !



Nice work SuperLine ! (Thats her alter ego....)

So, the question is, would you be easily able to edit and post video to your intranet as a conference summary for your colleagues? I have to say I have not worked on many for clients recently where you could achieve that.

Sign up for Janus next Philadelphia conference next year, and you could be describing to your colleagues why it was so good, and what you had learnt :-)

JBoye09 Philadelphia - a summary

So I did not manage to blog from the conference, the schedule was hectic, the wireless in the venue was a bit flaky (hardly Janus fault !) and with so many old friends and acquitances attending, sleep was even in somewhat of a short supply !

You can check out the JBoye09 website yourself if you want to know what you missed, also check out the page with the dates for next years conference ! Sign up now, its really worth it :-)

Why is it really worth it ? Well if your in information management, intranets or web, a communicator or a techie, where else would you get real 'face time' (or 'meat space' as someone recently called in a tweet) with so many domain experts such as Lisa Welchman, Tony Byrne, Martin White, Toby Ward, Eric Hartman, Bob Boiko, Donna Spencer, Graham Oakes, and Steven Arnold ? Oh and I better not forget Janus too......

Even better the program is constructed so that is balanced between thought provoking 'expert opinion' and 'real world' experience from practitioner case studies. Plus there is always plenty of time to network and discuss your issues with anyone (or everyone) else. Even the conference 'party' is organised in a venue where you can mingle and chat, with no thumping beats drowning you out - well not until much later when you can find them for yourself.

This rather low res piccy from my cell phone was this years Conference Dinner venue, the Moshulu, a very nice sailing ship moored next to an old iron clad battleship and a WWII submarine on Philadelphia's Front Street.

You can find CMS Wires coverage of the con
ference here.

Toby Wards blog posts from the conference at Intranetblog here.

Tony Byrne's blog post summary of the conference here.

Pictures on Flickr here.


So what were the highlights ?

• Doing a joint tutorial with Martin White, we always have fun together
• Meeting Donna Spencer, attending her tutorial on IA and hanging out with her on thursday evening
• Playing devils advocate in the debate raging about whether Intranet Managers should instead be called Information Managers, and if corporate communications really knows anything about information management
• Chatting with Tony Byrne while walking through the historic core of Philadelphia !
• Helping my friend Lina Berg develop her master plan to combine IT and Communications into a single function that will report direct to the CEO and thus solve all information management and communications problems in one fell swoop.
• Meeting Jane from WestJet, and Steve from Covidien (Prescient clients), not to mention all the other great people I met for the first time.
• Working with and hanging out with all the great team from JBoye who had come across from Aarhus and London. I hope you got better Dorthe before you had to get on the plane!

As you can see all was good. A disappointment for me was that I never got to chat with Steven Arnold, other than a very quick hello, shame on me for not finding the time and hunting him down.

Possibly the most interesting thing though, was learning about the Information Management Association Framework (TIMAF) initiative from Bob Boiko and Eric Hartman. Go and check out the site for info: http://timaf.org/about - I really hope this takes off and turns into something big.

I will close this post off with a picture of my new mate the world famous author proudly diplaying her first book, "Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories" by Donna Spencer

Please buy a copy of this marvellous tome, it will help repair the damage I did to her bar bill.

And finally, as they used to say on TV, a great big thanks to Janus and all his team, Sara, Dorthe, Peter, Lau, the other Peter, and all the volunteers, oh yes and congratulations to Volke for winning the best presentation award :-) Thank you, and good night......

What makes a good intranet ?

............and can you build it in Sharepoint ?

That was the title of my presentation session at JBoye09 in Philadelphia earlier this week. More on that shortly, but the presentation is below:

What Makes A Good Intranet

View more presentations from Toby Ward.

You can find other slide decks from Prescient Digital Media colleagues at:
http://www.slideshare.net/prescient

Still time left to register for JBoye09 in Phily next week

Yep, there is still left to secure yourself a place and come and join us at JBoye09 a "Knowledge sharing summit for online professionals" taking place in Philadelphia between the 5th and 9th of May (i.e. next week !)

I am doing a pre-conference workshop, a presentation on whether SharePoint (MOSS 2007) is good for intranets, and chairing a round table session - so its going to be a busy week.

However there are lots of very top notch speakers, so check out the full schedule here:
http://www.jboye.com/conferences/philadelphia09/schedule

And if you are one of the 3 people who reads my blog, and you do attend, come and find me and I will buy you a beer :-)

Come and join the Intranet Best Practices workshop at J.Boye 09

I have the pleasure to announce that I will be running a pre-conference workshop at Janus Boye's innaugral North American conference: Philadelphia 09

The workshop is Intranet Best Practices and its a double act with my very good friend and colleague Martin White (of Intranet Focus Ltd).

Martin is also doing a session entitled: Making the most of SharePoint 2007 and I think current plans may see me doing an as yet to be determined session on the Intranet track.

Toby Ward of Prescient Digital Media will also be there doing sessions on the e-Health and Intranet tracks, along with many other excellent speakers. The full programme is available here:

http://www.jboye.com/conferences/philadelphia09/schedule

I have paticipated in Janus' conferences before in Denmark, they are excellent and informative, so I hope you can come and join us !