Social Intranet Summit Vancouver 2011

Summary:

Your intranet is an integral part of your organization's success. No other technology is responsible for simultaneously enhancing efficiency and productivity, retaining organizational knowledge, and enhancing employee engagement. How can you achieve excellence with your intranet? Join intranet managers, social software practitioners, and enterprise thought leaders on September 28th 2011 for a day of inspiring presentations, practical advice, and great networking in beautiful Vancouver, BC.

What is it?

Social Intranet Summit Vancouver is a one-day conference designed to help organizations learn how to improve and enhance their social intranet by bringing together intranet managers, social software practitioners, and enterprise thought leaders for a day of great conversation. Participants will listen to presentations and discuss the challenges of designing, deploying, and fostering the adoption of social intranets.

Presentations will cover a wide range of topics:

• Social business design
• Fostering intranet adoption
• Measuring intranet success
• Social intranet case studies
• Governance for the social intranet

Where is it happening?

The stunning Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC) will be our venue for the two day conference. The VCC was recently home to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic media centre and overlooks a breathtaking view of Burrard Inlet and the North Shore mountains.

When is it happening?

Social Intranet Summit Vancouver is scheduled for September 28, 2011, with a reception and networking events during the evening in Vancouver’s historic Gastown neighbourhood, home of OpenRoad and ThoughtFarmer headquarters.

The Social Intranet Summit is hosted by OpenRoad, the company behind social intranet software ThoughtFarmer.

Who will be there?

We are bringing together a great mix of industry experts, intranet practitioners, and social business consultants. Sessions are a blend of social business theory and hands-on practical advice, as well as stories from real-world intranet deployments that demonstrate the bottom-line results of using social intranet software.

Post-conference workshop

The full-day post-conference workshop on September 29, 2011 is a hands-on session for intranet practicioners, with a special emphasis on information useful for ThoughtFarmer administrators. Topics includes:

1. Revisiting your information architecture with card sorting and task testing
2. Increasing social intranet adoption by defining and exemplifying key usage scenarios
3. Increasing social intranet adoption through internal marketing
4. Benchmarking your intranet and establishing KPIs
5. Advanced skinning techniques
6. Advanced ThoughtFarmer configuration
7. ThoughtFarmer hacks

Are discounts available?

Register now and save! If you register for a one or two day pass before Aug 15, you’ll receive a 50% discount on your registration fee. Registration between Aug 15 and Sept 7 will receive a 25% discount. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet some great intranet thinkers and make new connections in beautiful Vancouver BC.