BrightStar Conference on Intranets and Portals

I got back from Auckland on Wednesday evening after delivering my talk with Murray Wills of Maxsys on the MOT deployment of MOSS intranet.

The conference had a great lineup of speakers, and the two days was full of new ideas and thoughts. I came away with a good feeling that intranets in the future are going to be very dynamic and exciting!

Best quotes from the conference.

“a blog is an unexploded bomb!” – Paul Reynolds. Read Michael’s blogscript of the event.

“wikis in – blogs out” – Helen Baxter (mohawk media) Again Michael has his blogscript. What Helen meant was wikis for internal content with users taking ownership and blogs for communicating with an external audience.

Michael blogged all of the event except for (7th Annual Intranets and Enterprise Portal Management Summit) his own session but his slides on his presentation about “SharePoint for Business” are on his blog :-)

I met some really great people and also got the chance to see the Lunar eclipse that night! Julian Carver of Seradigm commented that Auckland was the place to be to see the Lunar Eclipse. Julian was the chairperson of the conference and was great to chat to him about his experience.

In my talk I highlighted the community involvement for SharePoint features. The main place to get code and upcoming development projects is CodePlex.