The Intranet Leadership Forum launched in New Zealand last Friday at the Reserve Bank in Wellington. Catherine Grenfell of StepTwo Designs introduced the concept to a full audience, and showed us a whole bunch of innovations. There are certainly best...
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The 4 exceptions to banner blindness
[tag]Jakob Nielsen[/tag] reveals something he would rather people didn't know, in the interests of truth. A fact's a fact, and ultimately there are no secrets in usability testing. Nielsen confirms for the umpteenth time that people ignore anything that looks...
Top intranet tasks
[tag]Gerry McGovern[/tag] reports on a small but interesting survey of [tag]intranet[/tag] users from Europe, North America and Australia/New Zealand. He reports an overwhelming consensus about what staff really really want from an intranet. A very small set of tasks had...
Victory to Kiwis in 24-hour challenge
Both [tag]FullCodePress[/tag] teams performed amazingly but... The CodeBlacks have won FullCodePress! In an extremely close decision, the judges have gone with the New Zealand team. Judges commented on how well both sides have performed, especially given the nature of the...
Extreme skim-reading and how to do it
Do you get frustrated with the time it takes to skim-read RSS feeds? Or do you just get over it? I'm now using [tag]Google Reader[/tag], and finding it convenient. It means I have one less bit of software to handle,...