After giving away the tarmac for 4 days (returning from Thailand), I headed back off to that wonderful place, called the airport, to hit the tarmac bound for Sydney. Luckily there is a small airport just “over the road” and by that, I mean, it’s 1o minutes away from home which is pretty lucky.
But I must get this conversation on the road and stop my faffing…
The main reason for my Sydney visit was to attend the Intranet Leadership Forum as James Robertson was discussing Enterprise 2.0. Mind you, I hit him with “what do you think Web 3.0 will be like?”. As I really like 2.0 and think it has done a lot to revolutionise the way we do things on the web, but it really bugs me when I have to visit so many applications with so many passwords. I know there are an emerging range of products that do bring the products together, but I think I’m waiting for the “big bang” and for something really worthwhile to happen on the web…
As a part of going to Sydney, I always work in the Sydney Office as well, and it’s a great time to catch up with staff. Previous visits to the Sydney Office have proved to be slow to gain staffs acceptance of both library and intranet services. But this time, two teams were waiting for me, waiting to get their “show on the road” (portal implementation) and I said to myself quietly “finally…”. I think the main reason for these two teams coming on board with so much enthusiasm is because the people assigned to Knowledge Management representative in their team are also very “tech savvy” people. Something for me to be aware of when I meet other KM representative staff in team. It truly helps to make the information battle that bit easier…
And, it’s nice to back home again…I’ll be keeping these feet on the ground for a little while now.
