I was asked to pull together a short pitch on what a work day would look like for employees in the next few years as way of a discussion point. I created this short deck which pulls on a few other decks to illustrate some thoughts. If you want to know who the people are [...]

Once the development team have been given the directive “thou shalt use WebSphere Portal” where does that leave them in terms of managing the builds and releases of the Portal artifacts.  I managed to find a really useful presentation that I used to help facilitate a discussion on this topic. Release Management for WebSphere Portal [...]

Sometimes you need to have a slide deck which helps start a discussion around social software, what it is and why people use them?  Here is a  normalized slide deck that I have used to start such a discussion.  Let me know if its useful. Social Software Discussion View more documents from Chris Sparshott.

Here is a deck that I have used to present and demonstrate Lotus Connections. The deck is split into three areas: 1. Potential 2. Practicality 3. Reality Potential looks at what can be achieved using Social Software tools. This section is delivered as a story of my work day flying to Wellington NZ for a customer [...]

I am building a demo vm using SUSE SLES as I have never used this distribution before.  As I installed SUSE I captured screen shots in case I needed to reference this information in the future.  I have posted the presentation to Slideshare and I have embedded it here for you to review. Step Guide [...]

Its official (finally).  IBM New Zealand has made public their plans to build a data centre in Auckland to meet the needs of current and future clients.  This has got to be a great opportunity not only for IBM but for organisations looking for secure managed services e.g. cloud solutions, PaaS, SaaS etc. I am excited because it allows [...]

I’m in my car driving to work listening to the fantatsic George FM and a Groove Armada set from Ibiza and then they program switches to a segment on Pinot Gris wine. It was very odd, but I liked it. I think this sums up New Zealand, you can talk about wine at anytime even [...]