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Rolling out social tools within law firms

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We are delighted to introduce Steve Perry as a partner in Headshift's project delivery network and as a guest author on our blog. Steve was a client of Headshift at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and whilst there implemented the Confluence enterprise... read full post

Do you want to succeed or survive?

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One of the moments in my career that had a deep impact on me was a conversation with an account manager in my previous consulting firm. I gave a presentation to a whole account team about using innovative solutions to... read full post

Unlocking social media ROI through business transformation

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Last night I attended one of the Social Media Week events, Show Me the Money: Where's the ROI in Social Media?, a panel discussion organised by Chinwag and hosted by Sun. The discussion, chaired by Andrew Gerrard, included Robin Grant... read full post

Adopting Enterprise 2.0 in large organisations: Fiat or Ferrari?

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A lot of people are dreaming about driving a Ferrari one day, unfortunately only a few are privileged. So what do you do if you are a car nut? You start with a Fiat Grande Punto, later on upgrade to... read full post

Learning about social media through experimentation

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Yesterday, during lunch, I went out and took some photos of the area around Headshift's London headquarters in Shad Thames, just east of the south end of Tower Bridge. When I uploaded them to Flickr, I added notes to each... read full post

Aggregation is an opportunity for content providers

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The Daily Mirror has joined a growing number of newspapers who block a news aggregator, NewsNow, from crawling it's site. The Sun and Times Online had already made similar moves.Having worked in the media industry myself for nearly ten years,... read full post

Blogging on the firm's public website

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People shaking hands, impressive office buildings, smiling people looking at a computer screen, water in motion, shiny buildings in Canary Wharf... We have become so used to stock photography on law firm websites that we hardly notice it anymore.If the... read full post

The structured vs. unstructured data dilemma

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One of the first things you learn at university in your first year of computer science is data normalisation. I don't know about the other people out there, but I found it such an utterly boring course. Mankind has such... read full post

Driving traffic to your blog with twitter

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Posting links to twitter can drive significant traffic to websites. I recently wrote a comprehensive post aimed at helping organisations and businesses get started blogging. I knew it would be of interest to a lot of people, so when I... read full post

Receptionist / Admin Assistant

Headshift needs an experienced receptionist looking to be challenged; someone willing and happy to do both the basic things that help an office run smoothly for everyone and the more advanced work of an administrative assistant.As our first point of... read full post

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