Category: Events

August 12, 2013

Sketchnotes from our Employee Forum

Recently I had the opportunity to bring my sketchnoting skills into the office to record the keynote presentations from Melbourne Water’s Employee Forum. Along with a large number of my work colleagues I was able to hear direct from Managing Director Shaun Cox and Chairman of the board Paul Clark about their perspectives on our vision and strategic direction. Further...

July 20, 2013

Get the most out of a conference

In the past few years I have attended my fair share of conferences and events in the digital and internal comms arena. Whether an event has been paid for by me, my employer or is complimentary I think it is important to make the most of the opportunity and I thought I would share my thoughts on getting the most...

June 30, 2013

What does social media mean to me? Social Media Day 2013

June 16, 2013

Notes from Share the Point: The Australian SharePoint Conference

This week I was fortunate enough to get tickets to attend Share the Point, the Australian SharePoint conference. Thanks upfront to James Dellow who provided me with the opportunity to attend and was unexpectedly unable to attend himself.

May 26, 2013

TEDx Melbourne – releasing my Untapped sketchnoting potential

Today I went to my very first TEDx session, a lovely way to spend a Sunday. Given my recent exercises in UX sketchnoting I thought this would be an ideal opportunity to practice my conference drawing skills. TEDx Melbourne was held at Swinburne University today with the theme being ‘Untapped’.

May 22, 2013

Intranets2013 – Cleaning up your phone list

This time last week I was in Sydney for Intranets2013. In addition to being a delegate I was fortunate to be invited to present about work we have been doing recently to clean up our intranet phone list. I think the employee phone list is a critical productivity and connectivity resource for any organisation. For us, 97% of staff access our...

May 18, 2013

Intranets2013 – UX Sketchnoting

I was really pleased to be able to stick around for day 3 of Intranets2013 and participate in a workshop on UX Sketchnoting run by the talented Matthew Magain of UX Mastery. I first encountered Matthew at UX Australia last year when he shared his clever whiteboard piece What the #$%@ is UX Design?. You may know him from his more recent...

May 16, 2013

Intranets2013 – Day 2

It’s been a jam packed two days here at Intranets2013 and I have spent the afternoon since reflecting on the many wonderful presentations I heard and on the themes of the conference.

May 15, 2013

Intranets2013 – Day 1

It’s my favourite time of year: Intranet conference time! When a bunch of clever and talented people come together to talk about all things intranetty.