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The "Rencontres Internationales des Responsables Intranet" took place in Paris last week. It was the event for intranet managers from several big multi-national firms and public administrations from all over France and Europe.

For an event that boasts a focus on technology - there were no bloggers present in the audience!! There were no tools to facilitate blogging - no plugs!! No wifi!! In fact, the handout was a giant heavy binder - it was not even a simple URL.

No one present was really surprised by this format though.

The presentations featured good projects, but projects that should have gone live 5 years ago, not today! All presenters were talking about collaboration and personalization, but were confusing (1) collaboration and document sharing and (2) personalization and profiling or look-and-feel customization. There was no trace of social computing. No trace of rich-featured people - don't understand this! and topic centricity. No trace of Flow. Just the old plain email and document centric world. The result is that we assisted to old school presentations (PowerPoint) of old school projects.

Back to the future, live.

The project that emerged (and really kicked ass - excuse my French!) was the project created and developed by Dassault Systemes: DS InterAction 2.0 (disclaimer: it's one of my clients). This project set t

Headshift's Recent Participation at Journalism & Media EventsNovember 24

I've been really busy speaking at different events the past few weeks and, although I'm usually pretty good at letting people know where I'll be speaking, I've not managed to tell you much about how the events actually went or what I learned, so here's a round-up.

At the end of October, I spent an afternoon at the News of the World Editors Conference. I'm afraid I can't tell you much more about that but it was a lot more fun "being grilled by Fleet Street's finest attack dogs", as Editor Colin Myler put it in his invitation, than one might initially suspect from an event with a billing like that. They sell 3+ million copies of their Sunday paper in a country of around 60 million people but have, thus far, only made baby steps online.

On the 9th I was at blogboat.be in Ghent, Belgium, to moderate the evening panel debate between Dan Gillmor, newspaper editor and author Henk Blanken and Han Soete from Indymedia. The panel was proceeded by an afternoon discussion about citizen media, blogging and journalism which took place, as the name might imply, on a boat.

Then, on the 12th, I was one of two guests invited to take part "in conversation" on the stage at the Association for International Broadcasting Awards