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October 2008 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2008-10-31
Social Network Subscription At Dopplr (tags: dopplr socialnetworks flow) Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again. (tags: facebook vc businessmodel) Bebo kids will value privacy when they see adults do too | Comment is... read full post
links for 2008-10-30
George F. Colony: Why this tech recession will be different (tags: bubble it business) Making it easier to debug and test your templates (tags: movabletype 6a howto tips) Flickr: Public vs. Private Around the World, A Map - ReadWriteWeb... read full post
links for 2008-10-29
BBC NEWS | Business | Bosses 'should embrace Facebook' (tags: facebook business) Reboot9: Kozarac.ba (tags: bosnia socialnetworks community intimacy sna)... read full post
Somesso Conference in Zürich this Friday
SOMESSO is a new multi-city corporate social media conference that kicks off this week in Zurich. read full post
links for 2008-10-28
Time to Leave the Laptop Behind - WSJ.com (tags: accessibility laptop mobile) The New Era of Social Business and Investment (Part 3): Progress Needed on the Supply Side : Social Business Blog (tags: socialenterprise vc funding) How Corporates Should... read full post
links for 2008-10-27
first recommendation for ICT policy: do no harm (tags: europe eu government information policy) <head> (tags: events conferences head) MySpace Gives Up On The Netherlands (tags: europe myspace socialnetworks business) this is my website | Kevin Rose - blogg... read full post
RIP: ROI
There have been numerous discussions about how to evaluate social software implementations, and the shortcomings of ROI and reductionist models for illustrating 'success' in terms of bottom-line profitability (e.g. Why Bother with Social Software, Musing About the Value of Social... read full post
Niche online social networks FTW!
My talk from the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, which calls on startups and developers to focus on creating social value through small-scale but purposeful online social networks read full post
Solving real world problems through online social networks
A talk from Reboot9 analysing the role of an online community site in the reconstruction of the Bosnian town of Kozarac read full post
links for 2008-10-26
You should Fire your Web agency when … | Loudmouthman You Should Fire your Web Agency When… They wont build you a Website or Online Strategy which uses off the shelf and Content Management Systems such as Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal.... read full post
links for 2008-10-25
Nathan @ e-gineer: Jitter: Experimenting with microblogging in the enterprise "In February 2008, Janssen-Cilag Australia & New Zealand launched an internal microblogging platform called Jitter. Combined with our intranet's people search capabilities, this formed an interesting enterprise hybrid of... read full post
More than just a website
One of the things that we try and emphasise when talking to clients is that a website is much more than it first appears. It's better to think of a site as an application in its own right, in... read full post
links for 2008-10-24
NHS needs to catch up on technology • The Register (tags: nhs uk health it) *All* Russian Schools to Use Free Software - Blogs – ComputerworldUK blogs - The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple... read full post
links for 2008-10-23
cybersoc.com: on today and world update this morning (tags: headshift blogging bbc) FT.com / Business Life / Management - Ready for Downturn 2.0 (tags: bubble) Phil Gyford: Stopping Movable Type from truncating long templates (tags: movabletype howto) The Futility... read full post
IT that learns
Yesterday, I mentioned how Cleary Gottlieb had borrowed knowledge engineering techniques from the military, to capture the expertise of senior staff, embed it in a computer system and pass it on to junior lawyers online, in the form of intelligent... read full post
links for 2008-10-22
Brian Prentice — A member of the Gartner Blog Network (tags: headshift gartner consulting) iKnow Is A Social Learning Platform That Can Really Make You Smarter. Opens API. (tags: LEARNING WEB2.0 API) Branded iPhone Apps From NewsGator | Venture... read full post
Did twitter kill the blogging star?
In an opinion piece for Wired, Valleywag's Paul Boutin makes the rather tenuous assertion that blogging is dead. He writes,"Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug. Writing... read full post
Innovative Lawyers
The Financial Times collates and commends a variety law firm 'innovations' in its latest annual report on "Innovative Lawyers". But 'innovation' is now being used so loosely and frequently that it seems any old initiative is tagged as 'innovative'. So... read full post
links for 2008-10-21
Paperless on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (tags: headshift printers fail) Social melting pots foster technological innovation - tech - 14 October 2008 - New Scientist Tech (tags: socialnetworking innovation city) Macy conferences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via Preoccupations... read full post
Pointy-haired, or fluffy?
A few posts ago I mentioned some models of human motivation that might help answer the question, "why would anyone bother contributing to social media?" The best known model is Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but as several commenters pointed... read full post
links for 2008-10-20
SharePoint Price Calculator (tags: OMG!!!! sharepoint hiddencosts) WhatIThink » Blog Archive » Setting Up Movable Type 4 on a MAMP Server How to install Movable Type 4 in a Mamp Pro installation running on Leopard (tags: MT4 MAMP movabletype... read full post
Why bother with social software?
Does social software really add value? Does an Enterprise 2.0 ROI actually exist? How would you measure it? Is it just for time wasters (like email, the internet, instant messaging etc.). During a credit crunch surely employees could be performing... read full post
links for 2008-10-19
Enterprising Knowledge: Sharepoint Summit "The trouble is (although not for Microsoft or their certified partners) that IT departments are choosing Sharepoint as the solution to whatever the problem might be, then trying to patch up the deficiencies with widgets,... read full post
links for 2008-10-15
EnterpriseAPI by Daylife | Set your content free! (tags: api software saas) Times Developer Network - Welcome "Our APIs allow you to programmatically access New York Times data for use in your own applications. Our goal is to facilitate... read full post
links for 2008-10-14
Harvest Co-op: How it works (tags: enterprise twitter saas) What the Enterprise wants from Enterprise 2.0 (tags: enterprise socialsoftware) Political Streams (tags: infoviz debate socialtools) Above and Beyond KM: Web 2.0 Resistance in Law Firms? (tags: law legal it... read full post
ReBooting and Aligning KM (people)
Jack Vinson recently reported the NY-Toronto Law Firm KM Summit 2008 in Boston, in which he writes about the distinction between KM and Enterprise 2.0. It's not the first time this sort of distinction is being made. In reality it... read full post
Cost of social software
One of the strongest arguments around adopting social software is that you can do so easily and at very low cost when compared with 'traditional' IT solutions. Given today's economic volatility and frozen IT budgets it may make sense to... read full post
Social software - the basics
Sometimes you spend so much time thinking about things you over-complicate. Enterprise 2.0 can be very simple Do you believe that there is business value in who you know as well as what you know?Do you believe that a strong... read full post
Joining Headshift
I've finally got my blog up and running at Headshift. Am really looking forward to working with the Enterprise team and the last few weeks have been fantastic.I'm going to be mainly cross-posting some of the content at http://jonmell.co.uk - but hopefully... read full post
links for 2008-10-13
Can Crappy Intranets Be Saved By Web 2.0 and Social Software? | Advice and Opinion (tags: wiki intranet socialsoftware) Becta Government & partners - Research - Reports and publications - Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4... read full post
links for 2008-10-12
Told You So (tags: sna socialnetworks politics freedom privacy)... read full post
links for 2008-10-11
Cognitive Edge: rendering knowledge (tags: km knowledge principles) The FASTForward Blog » In uncertain times, Enterprise 2.0 takes the stage: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary "As traditional enterprise vendors suffer, a panacea for investors and customers is... read full post
AM Law Tech 2008: IT in the balance
The 13th annual technology survey of AM Law 200 firms makes for a disappointing read from a social software/organisational change perspective. The report suggests that firms are grappling with issues like "what emerging technologies are worth investing in - and... read full post
links for 2008-10-10
Social Networking report - highlights (tags: marketing socialnetworking research) Smart Company names the top 15 business blogs in Australia - TLN makes the list (tags: australia blogs business) 5 Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss - ReadWriteWeb... read full post
links for 2008-10-09
E Quint Consulting » Inside-Out: Opening the Enterprise (tags: enterprise outsidein insideout openness) Who Really Uses Mint.com (And Other Banking 2.0) Services Anyway? (tags: finance banking web2.0)... read full post
Government and Data 2.0
mashup*, who bill themselves as a "membership based community of executives, entrepreneurs and investors affected by and working within the commercial application of digital technology, products and services" put on an event last night looking at "Data and Government... read full post
links for 2008-10-08
Technology - the party really is over (tags: technology vc business) "Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in a Web2.0 Era" (tags: web culture research society) Socialreporter | Can RSA help bridge the social innovation divide? (tags: rsa social innovation publicsector) Selling... read full post
Alternative to email
If I created a tag cloud of the presentations and ensuing discussions from last week's Unicom Web 2.0 conference, the 'email' and 'twitter' tags would dwarf all others. Not surprising really, since email is for most businesses a pivotal communication... read full post
links for 2008-10-07
YouTube - The Video Republic (tags: demos video youth) Our hyperlocal experiment and why it works - Lost Remote TV Blog (tags: hyperlocal) Granting Credit On The Fly. Is Bill Me Later Part Of the Problem Or Part Of... read full post
links for 2008-10-06
War Photographer James Nachtwey shows his life’s work « mattesblog (tags: photography ted conflict) InVisible Blog » the private net (tags: privacy google) Portals and KM: Wikis in Knowledge Management at Law Firms – Part One: ThoughtFarmer Example "...A... read full post
Headshift at the European Broadcasting Union
Tomorrow (07 Oct) I'm giving a presentation at the European Broadcasting Union's International Broadcasting Conference in Geneva. I'll be discussing how social media is changing broadcasting and showing some examples of how, where content producers have started to weave social... read full post
links for 2008-10-05
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Hello Socialtext 3.0! (tags: socialtext wiki enterprise) Socialtext 3.0: Will Wikis Finally Find Their Place in Business? - BusinessWeek (tags: socialtext wiki enterprise) Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » The problem with European entrepreneurship? Our... read full post
Maybe journalism is not quite dead yet
Two good examples this week of the strength of conventional journalism and the weaknesses of citizen journalism read full post
Why do people contribute to social media?
On the face of things, it's a tricky question - why would someone spend valuable time and effort contributing to something like Wikipedia? In a work environment, how can you persuade people to contribute their hard-won expertise and knowledge... read full post
Social Leverage Points
One of the advantages of working somewhere surrounded by really smart people is that you get to hear about what they think are really cool ideas. Tom Taylor's personal blog led me to a paper by Donella Meadows, late... read full post
links for 2008-10-03
The Rise Of Social Media Has Made Us All Influencers "A new study by Universal McCann called When did we start trusting strangers? found that rather than being passive, consumers have taken not only active, but also creative roles... read full post
links for 2008-10-02
New Research: Social Network Analysis of Wikipatterns.com (tags: wiki adoption research sna) Getting Social in the Enterprise with ESME - Enterprise Apps (tags: microblogging sap enterprise2.0 conversational_flow)... read full post
Rewiring relationships - Collaborative Councils and Cyber Citizens
This is what Dominic Campbell, MD of FutureGov, shared with us today at Unicom Web 2.0 about the Future Shape of the (Barnet) Council. Incredibly interesting for both private and public sector organisations alike! There is a steady shift from... read full post
links for 2008-10-01
ChiefTech: Anne Bartlett Bragg: State of the Australian social media/web 2.0 scene (tags: headshift australia) Becta report shows benefits of Web 2.0 in the classroom - Becta "Becta has published major new research into the use of Web 2.0... read full post
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