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Intranet Leadership Forum

intranet leadership forum. many ideas, one purpose.

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International board of advisors

The forum will have the support of an advisory board of internationally-recognised intranet experts:

Martin White

Martin White

Martin White is Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd. He has over 30 years experience in information management, publishing and consulting roles. Prior to setting up Intranet Focus Ltd. in 1999 he held senior management positions in Reed Publishing, International Data Corporation and Logica. Martin consults on the design and management of intranets and extranets, and the specification, selection and implementation of content management software and search software. He has presented workshops on these subjects in the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, South Africa and Australia. Martin is a Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, a Past-President of the Institute of Information Scientists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Martin is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Information Management and since 2001 has written a monthly column Behind the Firewall on intranet management issues for the US magazine EContent. He is a Contributing Editor for both EContent and Intranets: Enterprise Strategies and Solutions.

In January 2005 his book The Content Management Handbook was published by Facet Publishing, who will also be publishing his new book Making Search Work in early 2007. Martin is also the author of The Enterprise Search Guidebook.

Martin has been Chairman of the (London) Online Information Conference since 2000. He is a Visiting Professor and member of the Advisory Board at the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield. He is a member of the Governing Board of CABI and also a member of the Publishing Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Southampton.

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Bob Boiko

Bob Boiko

Bob Boiko is founder and president of Metatorial Services Inc., and is a faculty member of the University of Washington Information School. In 2004, Bob sparked the creation of CM Professionals, the first and only content management organization for practitioners.

Recognized world-wide as a leader in the field of content management, he has almost 20 years of experience designing and building Web, hypertext and multimedia systems and tools for some of the world's top technology corporations (including Microsoft, Motorola, and Boeing). Bob has sat on many advisory boards and is the recipient of many awards including the 2005 EContent 100 Award for leadership in the content management industry. He is author of two editions of The Content Management Bible and the upcoming book Laughing at the CIO: Leading Information Management in the Information Age. Bob is internationally known for his lectures and workshops.

Bob is an extremely skilled analyst, facilitator, teacher, designer, and architect and has extensive expertise in content and knowledge management, authoring, multimedia design, Web publishing and tool construction. He has undergraduate degrees in physics and oceanography and a graduate degree in human communication.

The University of Washington's Information School is a group dedicated to helping shape the emerging electronic information discipline. At the iSchool, Bob has trained hundreds of information professionals and designed programs in content management. Metadata, business analysis, information initiative planning, information architecture, information system design, and public access to information are some of the skills Bob brings to the table.

Before Metatorial Services, Bob co-founded Chase Bobko Inc. and built it into a leading content management service provider. Within Chase Bobko, Bob served as President, Head of Development, Head of Sales and Marketing, and Head of Operations. Bob and his two partners grew Chase Bobko from a staff of 6 to a staff of over 100.

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Jane McConnell

Jane McConnell

Jane is an American based in Europe for the last 25 years and works worldwide.

Jane’s primary area of expertise is as an Intranet and portal strategy consultant specialised in complex, large and/or global intranets. Jane has extensive experience with internationalization and optimization of intranets, portals and extranets to meet business and user needs.

Jane’s publications include:

Jane is associated with and regularly speaks at:

Jane is also the creator of Global Intranet Strategies Today and Tomorrow, an annual survey of global intranets around the world.

Jane writes two blogs (Globally Local and Carnet Intranet) and a website netjmc.com.

Past and present clients include Areva (Paris), AGF (Paris), Alcatel (Paris), Alstom Power Service (Switzerland, Paris), Amadeus (Madrid), Georgia-Pacific (Europe), Lagardère (Paris), Nokia (Helsinki), Pernod Ricard (Paris), RATP (Paris), TotalGaz (Paris), United Nations (Secretariat, New York), UPM (Helsinki).

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Janus Boye

Janus Boye

As the founder and Managing Director of Boye IT, Janus is working with customers through the entire project cycle: from vendor selection and requirements, through to strategy work, measurable success criteria and mentoring for enterprise portals, intranets and content managment.

He shares his experiences by writing articles and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He also contributes to the CMS Report and is a principal author of the Enterprise Portals Report. Janus is also active in the Danish CM Forum, a venue for content management practitioners to meet and exchange experiences. An organisation that he founded in 2004.

Janus was included on the prestigious "Twenty to Watch in 2005" list by CMS Watch, recognising people who make a change in the global content management market and is elected Director of Member Relations in the industry association CM Professionals.

Prior to founding Boye IT, Janus Boye attended school in Denmark and in the US. Then he worked for five years in Germany, including four years with an American CMS vendor responsible for Germany and Eastern Europe, in various technical, sales, and product management roles.

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James Robertson

James Robertson

James is the founder and managing director of Step Two Designs, an intranet and content management consultancy located in Sydney, Australia.

James is recognised as a world-wide thought leader on content management and intranet strategy. He has worked with many organisations in both the public and private sectors, including Fortune 500 companies and Australian Government agencies.

James has published extensively on topics across the fields of content management and intranets. He is considerable demand as a keynote speaker at conferences and events throughout the world. He has run workshops or presented at conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Denmark, the US and the UK.

A full list of James’ past speaking engagements can be found on our site:
www.steptwo.com.au/about/staff/jamesr/speaking

James is the author of the Content Management Requirements Toolkit, the Staff Directories report, and An Introduction to XML for Knowledge Managers. He also led the development of the Intranet Roadmap, the only publicly-released methodology that covers all aspects of intranet development (or redevelopment). He was also the lead author on the Intranet Review Toolkit.

James’ primary focus is on the strategic aspects of information management and on the organisational change required to deliver effective business outcomes. He also has a deep understanding of usability, information architecture and user-centred design. He is a nationally-certified trainer (Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training).

James has been listed by CMS Watch as one of "20 leaders to see in 2003", and was also a founding member of the CM Professionals association.

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