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UX Australia thoughts and highlights
This week I was lucky enough to attend the UX Australia user experience design conference in Brisbane. I decided to attend based on a recommendation from a colleague and the interesting array of...
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The speakers of Swarm – My conference overview part 1
I consider myself very lucky to have been able to attend this year’s Swarm Conference after winning tickets through Yammer (thanks again guys). I do believe that your perspective on an event changes...
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Being one with the bees – My Swarm conference overview part 2
Before I was lucky enough to score tickets to Swarm Conference I was impressed by the effort that they put into building momentum for their event and watching the twitter feed closely. In the lead up...
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What great events have in common – My Swarm conference overview part 3
So, I said that I would have a handful of posts about Swarm conference, and this is the last of them. In my first post I wrote about the great speaker line-up and what I took from the day. In my second...
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Intranet Innovation Awards 2012
It was a packed room today at the 2012 Intranet Innovation Awards as James Robertson of Step Two Designs shared with us highlights from the winners and finalists. First up James showed us a couple of...
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Those little business cards, why have them?
I have only had a couple of jobs where business cards were the norm. To be honest, at first I thought it was wonderful. A little card, all about me. When people asked for one, I could say “yes”. I had...
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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. James Robertson from StepTwo Designs set the...
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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. My some magic or...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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What does social media mean to me? Social Media Day 2013
It’s Social Media Day 2013 (now officially recognised in Missouri) and in the week leading up to this day I have been pondering the question posed by Mashable “What does social media mean to you?”. I...
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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...
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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...
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UXAustralia – Day 1 my thoughts
Today was Day 1 of UXAustralia here in Melbourne, the annual gathering of user experience professionals and it has not disappointed so far. The proceedings were kicked of with a keynote presentation...
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UX Australia – Day 2 round-up
My second and final day of UX Australia kicked off in ballroom 3 with Andrea Resmini and Groundhogs in the source code: Navigation as cross-channel sense-making. Andrea challenged Chris Holmes for the...
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Getting all meta with the sketchnoting at UX Australia
I was overwhelmed by the positive response and lovely feedback about my 10 minute talk at UX Australia. I presented Seven sketchnotes in one day which is my story about how I found sketchnoting and my...
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Seven #sketchnotes in one day: My UX Australia 10 minute talk
I was beyond chuffed to have my 10 minute talk voted in by attendees as one of the 12 they wanted to hear at UX Australia 2013. I took the UX Australia audience through my experience as an art student...
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Do-it-yourself intranet personas
When considering what topic I could present about at this week’s Ark Intranet Yousability forum intranet personas were not far from my mind. It’s something that comes up for a lot of intranet managers....
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