Author: Simon
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Mini-review SharePoint Saturday Leicester 2019
At just after 5am on Saturday, I was getting up for the drive to Leicester, to my first Midlands-based SharePoint Saturday in probably 5 years. I arrived at the fog-bound Leicester Racecourse in plenty of time for the 8.45am start. In some respects, having a SharePoint event barely a week after the massive Ignite conference…
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Every thing we do…
Two quotes from tweets have really got me thinking this week, and reminded me of a quote from Karen McGrane that is never far from my thoughts. The first was this from Simon Rohrbach’s talk to the Leading Design conference about joining, building and leaving a company. Having confidence in the business makes everything else…
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Intranet Now – October 2019
This time with…strategy It feels a little odd to be back at One America Square so soon after the last Intranet Now conference, not that I’m complaining. The previous Summer Edition was an experiment that I very much enjoyed (Intranet Now 2019 Summer Edition), and it is always a pleasure to immerse myself in the…
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Here’s to the connectors…
Rather delightfully, Lisa Riemers last week described me as a superconnector. Okay, so she included me in a group of many people I admire in her post about the wonderful community around intranets How to succeed in life (and intranets). And it’s not just that I admire them, each of these people has contributed to my…
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Intranet Now 2019 Summer Edition
There was a tearful moment midway towards the end of the morning session of the first of two Intranet Now events for 2019. It may have come as a surprise to the many first-time attendees, but I hope it was understandable to them. Giving the Intranet Diamond award posthumously to our friend Rupert Bowater was…
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IntraTeam 2019 in summary
PLEASE NOTE: I am currently adding extra links and presentations where I find them publicly available. This page may change over the next few days. After three days of workshops and conference at the IntraTeam Event 2019 at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Copenhagen, I was exhausted, unable to take any more information in,…
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Lessons from Learning – IntraTeam 2019
Lessons from Learning (IntraTeam Conference, Copenhagen 2019) by Simon Thompson from Simon Thompson Further links, reference materials, and slides will appear here. References Jane Hart’s Seamless Working and Learning www.modernworkplacelearning.com/cild/introduction/a-working-and-learning-environment/ Josh Bersin: The Hybrid Jobs Revolution joshbersin.com/2019/01/want-to-make-more-money-join-the-hybrid-jobs-revolution/ Please see Intranet Now 2018: Lessons from Learning for further references used in this presentation.
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IntraTeam Event Copenhagen 2019
I’m delighted to have been invited to present at the IntraTeam conference in Copenhagen, 26-28 February 2019. I will be building upon my Lessons from Learning presentation to further explore the potential in integrating learning and intranets. IntraTeam this year was my first international intranet conference, and I found it an outstanding three days of well-curated…
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Intranet Now 2018 in review
Last Friday saw the fifth Intranet Now conference, and the first after co-founder Brian Lamb stepped down. Lisa Riemers joined the remaining founder Wedge Black to introduce a series of lightning talks and mini-workshops. I was attending as a speaker and volunteer. Billy Clackers: Keeping people engaged in a gig economy Billy joined Invotra as…
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Intranet Now 2018: Lessons from Learning
Thank you talk all of the attendees to Intranet Now 2018 for your contribution to the event. Here are my slides from the event, on the subject of how the integration of learning can make an intranet more useful. Lessons from Learning: How to make an intranet more useful (Simon Thompson/Intranet Now 2018) I would…
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