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June 2008 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
Robin Hamman joins Headshift
Our bunnies have scored another scalp - Robin Hamman to join Headshift - yay! read full post
Is Enterprise 2.0 about selling software or solving problems?
The Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston was very interesting, and reflected a maturing market for enterprise social computing - but can it avoid the vendor dominance that helped kill off KM? read full post
Headshift has shifted
Towards the end of last year we hit saturation point in our offices on Lafone Street due to the continued growth and expansion of Headshift. We were long overdue a change of premises, so I was given the (unenviable?) task... read full post
HMS Bebo
Via a link on the del.icio.us feed of Ewan McIntosh - a social media specialist in the education sector - I came across this "profile" of a Royal Navy submariner on Bebo. I say "profile", because it's clearly been manufactured... read full post
Web 2.0 Strategies 2008
During yesterday's Web 2.0 Strategies 2008 in London, speakers from a range of industry sectors traversed fairly well-worn, yet nevertheless interesting, issues associated with the adoption of social tools within businesses to improve operations and externally to encourage better connections... read full post
Headshift Casefiles wiki
We are proud to announce that we have finally launched the Headshift Casefiles wiki, which is a repository of case studies about the use of enterprise social tools (not just ours, although there are lots of them in there) and... read full post
links for 2008-06-09
Rehumanising the workplace / BT (tags: bt casestudies enterprise wiki)... read full post
Wiki Markets
Another addition to the open-source participation economy is the contest for the creation of new futures contracts. It's being staged on MarketsWiki - an online open source knowledge base for current and historical information about the global exchange traded capital,... read full post
links for 2008-06-08
IT Pros Called Upon to Leverage Web 2.0 (tags: enterprise web2.0 learning it skills) Facebook Eyes Enterprise Market (tags: facebook enterprise socialnetworking) Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Is it time to take mashups and use them... read full post
Can newspaper social media sites continue to thrive alongside a strong public service broadcaster?
There has been a lot of very useful debate recently about the BBC's role in the UK media market, but I think the healthy and innovative position of major newspapers suggests they are not under threat from a strong BBC read full post
links for 2008-06-07
If charities want to be a society-changing force, they must be accountable, independent and focused | Society | The Guardian (tags: publicsector charity socialenterprise) If you try and set targets for knowledge sharing you have failed to understand the... read full post
links for 2008-06-06
Provocations and Design Flaws for Management (tags: management ideas) Facebook Platform Now Open Source: fbOpen Released facebook releases its open platform (tags: facebook platforms api socialnetworks) Informationoverlord » Blog Archive » LinkedIn and Business Contacts: Yours or Your Employers... read full post
links for 2008-06-05
Legal Technology - Gossip Blogs Bedevil Law Firms (tags: law legal blogs) Marketing Technology : PR Spam and Enterprise 2.0 (tags: headshift conferences events pr enterprise) TotSpot - A place for kids "TotSpot is a place for parents to... read full post
links for 2008-06-04
Facebook Streamlining Application Authorization (tags: facebook) Disney rolls out social networking site for parents - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic The Walt Disney Company's internet group is launching a social network featuring parenting advice. The ad-funded site, UKfamily.co.uk,... read full post
links for 2008-06-03
Neighbourhoods: The public sector is in crisis (tags: publicsector culture politics) frogpond » Geek breakfast, email and RSS observations ... (tags: enterprise rss)... read full post
links for 2008-06-02
A quick look at the way online conversation should be (tags: ecommerce) Bringing Wikipedia to Work: Open Collaboration within Corporations "This upcoming Wikimania 2008 tutorial discusses the three principles of "open collaboration" which I believe are underlying wikis, open... read full post
links for 2008-06-01
Royal Navy using Bebo for recruitment This is the Bebo profile for a Submarine Engineering Technician on HMS Victorious. You might not agree with this kind of military recruiting, but you can't fault the RN for trying something different...... read full post
links for 2008-05-31
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Participation as Social Capital: The Fundamental Flaw of Social News Sites (tags: community socialcapital groups) Go Big Always - Get your scary software out of my workplace (tags: adoption it socialsoftware backwardness ignorance) Enterprise... read full post
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