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January 2007 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2007-01-31
Second Life, Games, and Virtual Worlds (tags: secondlife research) Local activists - take to your blogs (tags: politics participation) Musing about Agile (tags: development software agile) Social Software and the Fortune 500 (tags: socialsoftware enterprise adoption stats research) The... read full post
Vista is now out of the way
Welcome Microsoft Vista - now get out of the way read full post
links for 2007-01-30
What's Wrong With Use Cases? (tags: usecases development design) OMG SysML (tags: usecases sysml)... read full post
links for 2007-01-29
The Effect of Typeface on the Perception of Email (tags: email fonts) Media 2.0 Workgroup - Social, Democratic, Distributed (tags: web2.0 media)... read full post
Blogs and the World Economic Forum
Lots more blogging around Davos this year, including a blog we set up for Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan. read full post
A Supermarket with a YouTube problem
Supermarket chain Somerfield tries to crack down on in-store prank videos being shared via YouTube read full post
Social networks and innovation
This introduction/summary to social networks and innovation by Ron Burt at NESTA is interesting. What strikes me most is the fact that he sees creativity as a function of a situation and not of the individual. Nevertheless, it needs individuals... read full post
links for 2007-01-27
German web users (tags: germany stats) Spending Time Online on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (tags: stats) Three Second Pre-Rolls On YouTube? (tags: youtube davos) Gen Kanai weblog: the cost of monoculture (tags: korea microsoft mac monoculture)... read full post
links for 2007-01-26
Amazon Quietly Launches Amapedia, a Wikipedia For Products (tags: amazon wikipedia wiki) KPMG KM Mission Statement. SLA 2003 Annual Conference. SLA News Division Web Site. (tags: kpmg km collaboration enterprise consulting) Bosnian Institute News: The work of the Sarajevo... read full post
links for 2007-01-25
The New Face of Amazon - Tags, Ajax, Plogs & Wikis (tags: amazon ecommerce ajax) Move Over Silicon Valley, Here Come European Start-Ups (tags: europe vc business) Datamining Folksonomy (tags: geotagging geodata tags tagging) Sharing presentations Think youtube for... read full post
What leads a social tool to success?
How many blogs are out there? Almost 150 million, Gartner predicted. How many wikis are available to the public? Loads. However, when you think in terms of the activity that goes down on this sites, figures are not as high... read full post
links for 2007-01-24
Group Collaboration is NOT Dead (tags: groups groupware enterprise software) Kable - What do you think of your doctor? - 23 January 2007 (tags: health patientopinion nhs) For Success in the Enterprise, Think 'Platform' (tags: enterprise software architecture) mind... read full post
links for 2007-01-23
IntelliAdmin.com: The 5 sins of Vista (tags: microsoft vista software) Community Next » The Present and Future of Online Communities Conference (tags: conferences event community) Tag Clouds: Joe Lamantia.com (tags: tags tagging language) The FASTForward Blog » Blog Archive... read full post
SNA tools: what are we measuring?
SNA tools have a certain allure, since they sound logical; but the problem is the data we have to feed them. Email and Document stores are not enough to produce a real picture of organisational networks. We need first to create the myriad of weak signals that can allow online social networks to develop before we can hope to derive actionable intelligence. read full post
EU blogging on the rise?
Last week, Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development entered the blogosphere. Welcome, Mariann! As far as I know, is she the second high-ranked person at the EU who blogs. She is following the good example of Margot... read full post
links for 2007-01-22
Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life (tags: humour funny secondlife) The FASTForward Blog » Blog Archive » Don't mash on the desktop - mash on the web (tags: mashup) Client Service Insights (CSI) :... read full post
/Message: Social Media and Public Relations: The Press Release Is Dead
Stowe Boyd on the Social Media Press Release. Sigh. read full post
links for 2007-01-21
Wordblog » Blog Archive » Where is UK in media blogging league? (tags: uk blogs newspaper stats) Seth's Blog: Web4 (tags: future ideas) Bloggerheads (UK) - Jackie Danicki, I have a bone to pick with you... uk political bloggers... read full post
links for 2007-01-19
Wikis: The Movie (Lucky Number Slevin) If even Finance information seems to be safe on a wiki, why are people so sometimes so concerned about how private social tools can be? (tags: usecase wiki) Why Johnny Can't Program (tags:... read full post
Corporate wiki survey
Now a survey by Ann Majchrzak , Christian Wagner and Dave Yates underpins what is already known: corporate internal wikis really make a difference. They make work easier, help organisations to improve its processes, collaborate more effectively and enhance individual... read full post
links for 2007-01-18
Updating the Stack - Migrating from WebWork 1.4 to 2.2.4 (tags: software development atlassian) Announcing Movable Type 3.34 (tags: mt blog software 6apart) BBC NEWS | Technology | Open source gets European boost (tags: opensource) After email ... again... read full post
links for 2007-01-17
Wikis vs The Usability of Online Document Editors (tags: usability wiki editors software) 10 Best Intranets of 2007 (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) (tags: intranet web2.0 enterprise2.0 usability) Scuttle (tags: tools software oss delicious bookmarking) Disrupting the disruptives: Kicking it to... read full post
Jakob Nielsen Loves Enterprise 2.0 with a Purpose
Jakob Nielsen has issued his view on the 10 Best Intranets of 2007. The full report is quite pricey but the summary is available for free and offers a peep over what is currently being the focus of the very... read full post
links for 2007-01-16
SourceForge.net: Confluencer.NET (tags: confluence plugins software tools) Innovation Creators: Read/Write Intranet Idol (tags: confluence socialtext intranet software reviews) Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development: 79-year-old YouTube Superstar (tags: old internetusers elderly learning) Gautam Ghosh - Management Consultant: Watson Wyatt evangelises... read full post
An Opportunity to make it happen
Headshift has significantly expanded its portfolio of enterprise social software and social networking projects over the past year, and we are looking to grow our team of consultants, developers, designers and magicians to cope with some exciting developments in 2007. If you are interested in working with us to deliver cutting-edge projects within leading organisations in their fields, and if you have an unfulfilled desire to transform the way people communicate and collaborate using social tools, then read on... read full post
links for 2007-01-15
Online Education Free (tags: learning resources education) The FASTForward Blog » Blog Archive » Big Consulting Firms Turning to Social Media (aka) Enterprise 2.0? (tags: enterprise2.0 web2.0 consulting) Remote Access: Planning for Networks of Learners (tags: learning education networks)... read full post
links for 2007-01-14
GTMO DOCUMENTS: My Worst Moment As a Lawyer (tags: law usa lawyers) The PKM-Enabled Organization (tags: km knowledge) Groups vs. networks ... forums vs. blog communities (tags: groups networks structure) nancy white's paper: blogs and community (tags: blogs community)... read full post
links for 2007-01-13
Can Java become an important Linux language? (tags: java lunix oss eclipse)... read full post
links for 2007-01-12
UMass Dartmouth - CMR Blog Study II (tags: web2.0 blogs blogging marketing corporate adoption) The FASTForward Blog » Blog Archive » Can Enterprise 2.0 evolve from Enterprise1.0? (tags: enterprise enterprise2.0) I-See-T project blog (tags: ngo ict adoption) Microsoft takes... read full post
Network-centric management
Martin Duggage on Network-centric management and communities of practice in Schneider Electric read full post
iPhone trademark dispute: Cisco's case blogged
The dispute over Apple's alleged infringement of Cisco's iPhone trademark is very interesting when viewed from an Enterprise 2.0 perspective: 1. Cisco's SVP and General Counsel, Mark Chandler, is blogging it. This is highly significant as it may be the... read full post
links for 2007-01-11
Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble? - WSJ.com (tags: bubble web2.0)... read full post
links for 2007-01-10
Speaking as a passionate reader (tags: vrm doc customers) ETSY ETSY ETSY ETSY ETSY (tags: etsy diy longtail) I Don't Need MS Office 2008 for Mac, I Have Parallels (tags: microsoft office mac)... read full post
Social Networking Websites and Teens: and the survey says...
The Pew Internet Project, a non-partisan, non-profit research centre that examines the social impact of the internet, has recently published the results of a survey on the habits of American teens regarding social networking sites. The study reveals that 55%... read full post
links for 2007-01-09
To Tag Or Not To Tag (tags: tags tagging corporate) IBM Redbooks wiki (tags: ibm wiki confluence) CIO Blogs - Virtualization may redefine the software industry | (tags: servers hosting visualization) The Ideal Government Project (tags: patientopinion feedback egov)... read full post
links for 2007-01-08
Demos | An Underwhelming Truth | Blog | Stern talking (tags: demos climatechange politics participation) BBC NEWS | Health | Sex 'cuts public speaking stress' vindicated! (tags: psychology publicspeaking sex) Jellybeans of wisdom from confab.yahoo - Yodel Anecdotal (tags:... read full post
links for 2007-01-07
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Crash (tags: saas hosting) You can't commoditise knowledge (tags: km knowledge outsourcing) Programming 2.0 (tags: coding culture web2.0) wikileaks.org (tags: wiki) Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Bubble, Bubble, Bubble Not sure if Arrington is... read full post
links for 2007-01-06
Read/WriteWeb Jobs (tags: jobs recruitment) Furious Seasons: Love American Style: Web 2.0 And Narcissism (tags: web2.0 mentalhealth) Software's unfinished business for 2007 | The Register (tags: software business) IM vs email (tags: im communication innovation) Wikis evolve as collaboration... read full post
links for 2007-01-05
How Web 2.0 is changing medicine -- Giustini 333 (7582): 1283 -- BMJ (tags: health web2.0) Revolution Health (tags: health web2.0) The New Yorker : OPEN SECRETS: Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information. fascinating perspective on... read full post
News... papers?
In 1994, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid wrote that the three advantages for paper-based newspapers were: a) the determination of what is news as only a certain amount of information will fit within the paper limits; b) the layout... read full post
links for 2007-01-04
NIC - Yugoslavia NIEs Chronology (tags: yugoslavia intelligence)... read full post
links for 2007-01-03
Organic KM: Enterprise 2.0 & KM (tags: km web2.0 enterprise2.0) The FASTForward Blog » Web 2.0 for the Enterprise (tags: enterprise2.0) Zubka | Browse - What is Zubka? (tags: jobs recruitment)... read full post
Patient Opinion
Patient Opinion gathers direct, unmediated stories about healthcare provision and aggregates them to benefit both patients making choices and providers planning services. read full post
links for 2007-01-02
ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens) note about propensity of young people to constantly reinvent profiles - also has implication for debate about user figures (tags: profiles youth identity) Potlatch: governing through trade mags Which Superhero... read full post
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