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We are currently seeking input for Gov 2.0 Taskforce Project 8
Headshift is currently completing a project for the Government 2.0 Taskforce, to develop online engagement guidelines and a Web 2.0 toolkit for Australian government agencies (see the brief - PDF or RTF format).Our approach for this project involves creating use... read full post
Recording of our Designing for Adoption webinar
A recording of our Designing for Adoption webinar is now available on Atlassian.tv:The slides themselves are also available on SlideShare.We invited people to ask questions during the Webinar and here are some pointers to further reading: Mark Morrell describes how BT... read full post
Webinar: Designing for Adoption - Friday 23rd Oct @ 9am (Sydney time)
This Friday morning (9am, Sydney, Australia time), Anne and I are excited to be presenting a webinar for Atlassian. We will explain the benefits of customising Confluence and how applying a user-centered approach can help to overcome the typical barriers... read full post
A Wiki Case Study: Replacing a Static Intranet at a Law Firm
A few months ago we announced the release of the Social Networking for the Legal Profession report by the Ark Group, which was written by Headshift's Lee Bryant and Penny Edwards.The London team recently followed up the release of this report... read full post
Powered up Downunder!
While we were asleep downunder, the Twitterverse was going wild with the announcement of the Dachis Group's acquisition of Headshift - followed by a series of blog post commentaries. Rather than re-post what Social Business Design is all about, I... read full post
Upgrading Democracy in Australia - Reboot needed
The Centre for Policy Development is an independent Australian public interest think tank. Lee Bryant and I were invited to submit an article for the latest edition of their Insight Magazine, which became available online today. The theme for this... read full post
Social innovation gardening
I wrote this short piece about the relevance of Government 2.0 to service delivery at a local level: The exciting dimension of Government 2.0 is the impact it can have on communities where Local Government is at the front line,... read full post
Reframing practice: creating social learning networks
Anne has recently been published in Emerald's peer reviewed Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, with an article looking at social learning networks:The future of online learning lies with the development of social learning networks, but the value... read full post
SharePoint or Wiki?
This article was originally published in the May/June 2009 edition of Image & Data Manager magazine.Archimedes famously told us that with a long enough lever and fulcrum to rest it on, he could move the world. The story of designing... read full post
Don't short change online citizens
If you follow me on Twitter, you will know I've been critical at times of the Australian government's recent efforts to embrace Government 2.0 and more technology-supported participatory approaches. So far I have been generally disappointed with the examples I've... read full post
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