Intranets and The Australian Government

I will be facilitating a workshop at "Intranets and The Australian Government" on the 19-20 May 2014 in Canberra. More info on the event: http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-F003IntranetGovernment.htm

The hashtag for this event is #intranetgov and the Twitter handle is @Arkgroup.

In the workshop, I will discuss the practical aspects of Intranet implementations and ways of building it using SharePoint, for it to be an efficient working platform. We will explore what can be done to design and create magnificent tools for your daily information work that may not only improve the business processes, but also increase involvement of people in information sharing and collaboration within the company. Features such as: Selection of the applications, social features, search, personalisation and other interesting topics will also be reviewed.

Many new ideas straight from #SPC14 about industry best Intranet implementations and applications based on Office 365, SharePoint and Yammer

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