Intranets2012 — the biggest intranet conference in the southern hemisphere — has come to a close. And what an event it was! While participants loved the first year, we had many comments this year it was even better, with speakers (both local and international) being the big highlight. Can we make it simpler? MORE >>

It’s all about networks. Understanding networks that is. This is the shift our organizations, institutions, and society must make in order to thrive in an always-on, interconnected world. Changing the mechanistic mindset : Work is changing as we get more connected. Workers want out, in spite of a lacklustre economy. There is  no normal. MORE >>

Search and discovery are both useful ways to find useful content. Everyone knows about search. Google is my home page. It has opened up the Web to the world. As Romain Goday wrote in Search vs Discovery (Or A New Approach to Information Consumption) , “Search has boomed in the last decade, more than 130 billion searches were conducted during 2010.”. MORE >>

Jim Benson gives an interesting definition of slack in Flow, Cadence, Slack, and Stress in his Lean Muppets series (fun for the videos!). Slack: The gaps between work that make flow possible and define cadence. This is an interesting look at the importance of slack, since most people think it is a bad thing for people or processes. MORE >>

Today there was an event from CILIP Career Development Group (Yorkshire and Humberside Division) here at Sheffield University. Vicky Grant , Faculty Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Health at Sheffield, was talking about Health information obesity: the new epidemic? I'm going to put more about that in a separate posting. MORE >>