I (Mike Riversdale, aka Miramar Mike) have worked all my professional life alongside users of information with my work with software vendors (Business Objects, Sydney), New Zealand government agencies (Department of Corrections, Ministry of Health, Christchurch City Council), charitable organisations (skylight) and private/public companies (Fronde, Etam).
My focus is always on the real users and their information demands - I have been called the "people's poet"!
Working for Fronde and as an independent consultant my role is to introduce the concepts, educate around the challenges and ultimately help deliver available, findable and useful information to those that need it.
I am experienced in the full gamut of Enterprise 2.0 tools and, despite a leaning towards open source, I am totally vendor independent - whatever works for the client!
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Mike Riversdale
(cross posting from Mike Riversdale: Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style blog) A massive 92% of Kiwi’s have no idea how (or choose not) use the RSS technology as reported by Russell Brown* Why is that? (If you’re unfamiliar with the term RSS check out the excellent RSS in Plain English
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Mike Riversdale
(cross posting from MiramarMike, Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style) Completely independently these two articles recently applied to some thinking to the subject of “heavy/crap” software being the norm within organisations: Jason Hiner: Should IT support user-owned smartphones? Eric Bourke: Simplicity I think their arguments are fundamentally the same … Eric
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Mike Riversdale
(cross posting from MiramarMike: Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand Style) This’ll be my last posting for a while regarding the future of IT Departments as I think I’ve said all I need to say – they’re history! Wellll, not really. Having spoken to a friend who has a healthy scepticism for
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Mike Riversdale
(cross posting from Mike Riversdale’s “Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style” blog) My answer to the question in the title – not very but Google Sites (Apps) is travelling to the same destination as SharePoint but along a very different path. A little background reading for those new to both Google
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