{"id":566,"date":"2012-02-12T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T08:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thompsonsimon.com\/about\/"},"modified":"2012-02-12T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T08:36:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Simon Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ts.exadev.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IntranetNow2018-Simon-presentation-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-423\"\/><figcaption>Simon presenting at Intranet Now 2018 &#8211; photo \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/intranetnow.co.uk\">Intranet Now<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a digital workplace specialist, trying to weave together the threads of intranet best practice, content design and strategy, online learning, user experience, and human behaviour online.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1990s, I moved from broadcast journalism into web design and development for some of the earliest online publications and manufacturing clients. In 2001, I started working on the website and intranet for the UK&#8217;s largest firm of architects and building engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2012, I&#8217;ve been working as an independent consultant and contractor specialising in intranets and Microsoft SharePoint. In 2015, I was part of the team that won the Gold Intranet Innovation Award for the Barclays Global Academies, where I had been responsible for the interaction design in SharePoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was this time working with with Learning &amp; Development specialists that led me to start making connections between my experiences working in L&amp;D, intranets, internal communications and change management. This became a conference talk at Intranet Now (2018), IntraTeam (2019) and Digital Work Disruption (2020). In this, I argued that closer integration of intranet and workplace learning can improve day-to-day working and management, support both top-down and bottom-up communications, and help drive  company culture. <a href=\"https:\/\/thompsonsimon.com\/2020\/lessons-from-learning-the-post\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"323\">Find out more at Lessons from Learning &#8211; the post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talk to me about how to make your intranet work better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/thompsonsimon \">Connect with Simon on LinkedIn<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thompsonsimon\">Follow Simon on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a digital workplace specialist, trying to weave together the threads of intranet best practice, content design and strategy, online learning, user experience, and human behaviour online. In the 1990s, I moved from broadcast journalism into web design and development for some of the earliest online publications and manufacturing clients. In 2001, I started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-566","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}