Author: Simon
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Intranets in the worst of times
Sooner or later, something bad is going to happen in your organisation, and your digital workplace will be the place your colleagues go for information and support. You need to be ready. Ten years ago this January, I left home extra early on the first day back from the Christmas break. Something awful had happened…
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Flash.gotoAndStop(2020)
As I write, Flash plugin is about be wiped off millions of computers around the world, and the web will become a safer place. I’m not sad about this this closing of a chapter in the web’s history, although I do want to remember Flash for some of the bad and a lot of the…
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Review: Introduction to Content Design
“Work on end-to-end journeys to help users complete their goals” In September 2020, the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) published the Introduction to Content Design course on FutureLearn. The course takes a suggested 16 hours over four weeks and is free to take, although you will need to pay for tests and certification. I took…
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Recent learning: Content, data, and collaboration
Last week’s learning was a big week of content and data, with a touch of governance. I completed the Introduction to Content Design course by FutureLearn and GDS. Prompted by Lizzie Bruce, I’ll be writing a review for the course’s suitability for people responsible for intranet content. In the meantime, my overall opinion is the course…
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Digital Work Disruption 2020
My slides from the Digital Work Disruption conference on 26 August 2020. Find out more about my exploration of intranets and workplace learning in Lessons from Learning – the post Please feel free to leave feedback on this page.
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Life changing: a tribute to Intranetters and the intranet community
Ten years ago, I attended my first intranet community event, the appropriately-named Intranetters. Looking back, as plans take shape for a 2020 revival of the meet-up, I can see it as the starting point of a chain of events that is reasonable to call life changing. I actually felt nervous, a fraud almost, as I…
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Learning Technologies – a digital workplace perspective
Last week I got to spend a day and a half at the Learning Technologies exhibition in London, and had many interesting conversations. As I’ve commented before, learning tech feels like a strange parallel universe where intranets barely exist, so would this year’s show be different? Something borrowed, something blue There is a concern in…
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Lessons from Learning – the post
In 2019, I was thrilled to be invited to present my talk Lessons in Learning to the IntraTeam conference in Copenhagen. This is a summary of the majority of the talk, where I argued that intranet professionals need to pay more attention to learning and development. This talk originates a year before at IntraTeam Event…
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Everything you know about learning is wrong…and what might that mean?
Nick Shackleton-Jones is an entertaining and occasionally puckish speaker, and kept the Brighton audience for last night’s Tilt Talk on their toes with jokes, challenging questions, short activities and giant marshmallow-throwing. And that wasn’t just playfulness, but illustrating one of Nick’s key points about how people learn: that we are much more likely to remember…
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Reflecting on 31 Days of Creativity
For communications consultant Helen Reynolds (@helreynolds on Twitter) January 2020 has been an inspiring month. She’s pushed a whole bunch of people beyond their comfort zones in her #31daysOfCreativity challenge. Here, I’m reflecting on what I’ve done and what I’ve learned. Day one saw me fighting my journalistic instinct of not wanting to write a…
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