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Author: Dorje McKinnon

Fun Friday

Dorje McKinnon June 9, 2017 personal Read more

Pizza and Pita bread

This recipe is from Simon and Alison Holst’s “The New Zealand Bread book”. I’ve used it for years with a very old bread maker, thanks Tineke šŸ™‚ and it comes out perfect every time. I like very thin pizza and

Dorje McKinnon April 29, 2017April 29, 2017 community Read more

Beer braid bread

This recipe is my adaptation of a recipeĀ from Simon and Alison Holst’s “The New Zealand Bread book”. Quick and easy bread for showing off šŸ™‚ And Kids love it. 3 teaspoons active dried yeast 350ml of beer or lager (approximately

Dorje McKinnon April 9, 2017April 29, 2017 community Read more

Business networking facilitated workshop

Networking 101 facilitated workshop for Canterbury Tech cluster

Monday this week at 8am 40 members and non members of Canterbury Tech cluster attended the networking facilitated workshop I developed Ā and ran. Several months ago to help up-skill myself I joined Canterbury Tech and provided some robust feedback saying

Dorje McKinnon March 30, 2017April 27, 2017 community Read more

Policy change shmolicy change. How to show and check staff understand change.

Red and green spell out policy changes

Two clients in the past month have asked me: How do we make sure staff know that a policy has changed? During my career I’ve tried several approaches and seen many more. The EULA approach The standard solution that Health

Dorje McKinnon March 7, 2017April 12, 2017 analytics, intranet Read more

Do you make menus for tasks AND user roles ?

Menu for tasks and users personas

Menus can be hard to create. I often get called in to help with Information Architecture as an intranet consultant. One of the key tools I use when working with digital workplace teams is to help them createĀ personas or user

Dorje McKinnon February 27, 2017February 27, 2017 training, Uncategorized Read more

Do you know which of the 10,000 things to do?

10,000 buddhas

Intranet and digital workplace teams face huge problems. One really tricky one isĀ how to choose what task to do ? Do you : Jump for the most senior person’s request ? Do what will help front line staff ? Shore

Dorje McKinnon February 27, 2017February 27, 2017 training Read more

Why 20 mins learning Google maps could save your job

PortHills fire Monday 13 Feb from Lyttelton

This is a story about why you should learn how to use Google Maps now, to help in your future. [Click here if you don’t want the story, but do want to skip to the tasks that will help you

Dorje McKinnon February 17, 2017February 17, 2017 community, intranet, training, Uncategorized Read more

SharePoint online mega menus and email alerts

Simple sharepoint megamenu

This is the fourth in my series on useful stuff for making SharePoint online a better digital workplace and intranet. Two things my clients ask for when working on SharePoint online projects are: Mega menus and email alerts. So here

Dorje McKinnon November 28, 2016November 30, 2016 intranet Read more

Vizit SharePoint plugin

Vizit SharePoint plugin

Vizit.com was mentioned to me yesterday by one of my clients, as a very useful SharePoint solution. They use it to present staff with thumbnails of search result, pdf, images and other large documents in a SP2010 environment. The real

Dorje McKinnon August 19, 2016August 19, 2016 intranet Read more
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