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Social Tools for Inclusive Public Policy
Last Thursday the Social Media Club and FutureGov teamed up at Canada House to deliver a conference called Global networks, local action: transforming communities with social media. Below are a few observations on the conference and the wider public sector.Political apathy and distrust of political institutions are... read full post
Companies at the edge of chaos are like our brains
One of the key fears of people that manage knowledge workers is that losing control might mean losing authority and standing. Perhaps they fear that conceptualizing innovation plans might lose the power of processes, quality guidelines or other built-up best... read full post
What use is Social Media to the Pharmaceutical Industry?
Coming from a pharmaceutical background I've been keeping a close eye on the industry's use of social technologies. Whilst working on the inside I focused on social business and connecting people behind the firewall. Now I'm on the outside I've... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession - Shaping New Ways of Working
Consider for a moment where you turn when you're looking for a document, a reference or information about who's working on what and with which clients. Commonly people will ask their colleagues or send out an email to their team... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession - when 'social' means 'business'
For lawyers, social networking has always been an important feature of the way they do business, and there are many characteristics of lawyerly behaviour that map very closely to the features of online social networking, such as: Relationship based-business development;Individual... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession - Challenging Conditions
With the release of our publication Social Networking for the Legal Profession, I will be introducing in a series of blogs some of the topics and themes outlined in more detail in the report. I will start the series with... read full post
Headshift on Al Jazeera News
On Monday I was interviewed by Al Jazeera about the use of social media tools, particularly twitter, by protesters in Iran. Here’s the clip:... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession
We are proud to announce a major new report, published in association with Ark Group, entitled Social Networking for the Legal Profession, which looks in depth at current practice in social networking and social technologies within the legal sector read full post
What should EU governments do with the web to transform public services?
To encourage EU governments to act more quickly on public services 2.0, we have joined with other partners to launch (what we hope will become) a co-created declaration on public services to sit alongside the ministerial declaration at Malmo in November 2009. read full post
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