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Press Release

Social Intranets Mature, Traditional Organizations Follow
ThoughtFarmer Hosts 2-day Social Intranet Summit to Vancouver

(VANCOUVER, July 25) On September 28th and 29th Vancouver-based ThoughtFarmer is hosting the Social Intranet Summit (www.socialintranetsummit.com) at the Vancouver Convention Centre…

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Twitter

Conference hashtag: #sisv

Twitpitch: Social intranets: the missing piece in your organization’s collaboration puzzle. Social Intranet Summit Vancouver is September 28th. http://bit.ly/sisv2011

Elevator Pitch

Social intranets are turning the impossibly complex, seldom-used corporate intranets of days gone by into hubs of open communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing.

The Social Intranet Summit focuses on how to derive maximum business value from these next-generation intranets. Presentations are short, information-packed and full of case studies and real-world examples. Together with the pre-conference workshop, the Social Intranet Summit covers the full social intranet lifecycle: Plan, Build, Launch, Measure and Improve.

Event pages

Raw data

Number of attendees expected: 200

Target audience:

CIO’s, Directors of IT
HR Managers
Internal Communications Managers
Intranet Managers
Knowledge Management professionals

Ticket pricing:

1-day Summit: $599
2-day Summit + ThoughtFarmer Workshop: $999

Keynotes for 2011 include:

Shel Holtz, Principal, Holtz Communication + Technology
Gentry Underwood, Founder, Orchestra Inc.
Toby Ward, CEO, Prescient Digital Media
Andy Jankowski, Director, Intranet Benchmarking Forum
CV Harquail, Consultant, Authentic Organizations
Rachel Happe, Co-Founder/Principal, The Community Roundtable
Ron Shewchuk, Author & Consultant
Deane Barker, Content Management Practice Director, Blend Interactive

Speakers in 2010 included:

Dion Hinchcliffe, Dachis Group, ZDNet blogger
Eric Karajaluoto, Co-Founder, smashLAB
Stewart Mader, Editor, Future Changes
Andy Jankowski, Intranet Benchmarking Forum
Bert Sandie, Director Technical Excellence, EA
Bevin Hernandez, Co-Founder, Firebrand Tribe
Brian Edwards, Practice Leader, Collaboration, Habanero Consulting Group
Dan Pontefract, Head of Learning, TELUS
Ephraim Freed, Intranet Project Lead, Oxfam America
Ryan Gruss, Intranet Project Lead, Continuum
Tracy Hutton, Consultant, The Marcus Buckingham Company

Social intranet case studies in 2011 to include:

Mountain Equipment Co-op
MD Physician Services / Canadian Medical Association
Lifemark Health

Companies whose social intranets were featured in 2010:

Continuum
EA
Oxfam America
Penn State University
Servus Credit Union
TELUS

Major topic areas:

Employee community management
Understanding the purpose of “social” inside organizations
Social business design
Overcoming the fear of mass collaboration
Fostering intranet adoption
Measuring intranet success
Social intranet case studies

2010 Sponsors:

ThoughtFarmer
Microsoft
Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF)
The Next Web Canada
The Social Agency
StartupNorth
Techvibes

About the Organizer

The Social Intranet Summit is organized by ThoughtFarmer: www.thoughtfarmer.com

ThoughtFarmer, based in Vancouver, is off-the-shelf social intranet software used around the world by companies like District of Columbia Courts, eHarmony, Fokker, Guardian News & Media, Mountain Equipment Co-op, USDA and USGS.