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January 2009 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2009-01-31
Digital Britain: who's going to pay? | Technology | guardian.co.uk (tags: uk access broadband) Official Google Data APIs Blog: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together (tags: openid openauth sso authentication)... read full post
Edutainment and competition make the world go round
The New York Times published an article today on how utilities turn their customers green. For years and years the Sacramento Municipal Utility District had tried to push people to using less energy by offering for example rebates for energy-saving... read full post
links for 2009-01-30
Economy Pinches the Billable Hour at Law Firms - NYTimes.com (tags: law legal) IT's Dirty Little Secret: No Accountability - Susan Cramm - HarvardBusiness.org (tags: it roi accountability)... read full post
Calling London Project Managers
We are seeking a web-native Project Manager with prior experience managing projects in a client-facing environment. You will have excellent attention to detail and be a master at initiating and structuring a project using a variety of methodologies, reporting applications... read full post
links for 2009-01-29
Public services 2.0: how to implement and promote user-driven, open innovation in public services (tags: events eu government web2.0) When IBM Beats Facebook And Twitter: Discover Relevant People Within Your Network (tags: ibm discovery socialnetworks enterprise socialsoftware) Pimp My... read full post
links for 2009-01-28
BitchBuzz Tech: The Design Whore: Enabled By Design (tags: ebd headshift design) Transparent Office (tags: law legal adoption socialsoftware) IBM sends Blue Clouds back to school • The Register (tags: ibm cloudcomputing cloud saas) SILK: News | Coping families... read full post
Unblocking the blockers
Controversy over whether time spent on social media sites is wasted or productive is nothing new - anyone who's been around the block for long enough will remember similar discussions around email rollouts. And no doubt there will have been... read full post
Wikipedia as an inspiration for internal use of wikis
Should organisations using or considering wikis take note as Wikipedia debates a change to their moderation policy? read full post
The (white) elephant in the room
Politicians and IT usually go together like fish and bicycles. The story of public-sector IT in the UK is generally one of grandiose over-budget failures at the top end of the scale, and low-level outsourced inadequacies at the other. The... read full post
links for 2009-01-27
BBC NEWS | Technology | Editorial row engulfs Wikipedia (tags: wiki wikipedia reputation commons) AJAX APIs Playground (tags: api google tools) Connections 2.5 Previews (tags: ibm connections socialsoftware) SSRN-Can We Exploit Collective Intelligence for Collaborative Deliberation? The Case of... read full post
links for 2009-01-26
A Guide to Recommender Systems (tags: recommendation) 10 reasons why a law blog does not belong inside your law firm website : Real Lawyers Have Blogs (tags: law legal blogging blawgs) Blogging and Other Social Media by Justin Patten... read full post
links for 2009-01-25
The Ideal Government Project: Sunday Times claims to expose corrupting Experian (tags: government outsourcing corruption democracy opendata data) QCon London 2009 Conference (tags: events conferences development) Process Perfection: The Enterprise Cloud (tags: cloud virtualisation enterprise) 8 Predictions for Enterprise... read full post
links for 2009-01-23
A Bit Visceral : The Blog: Alienation (tags: banking alienation change) SocialText (tags: agile development socialtext) Call me Jeffrey - Blog, Work & Events of Idea Powerhouse, Jeffrey Kalmikoff (tags: focus gtd business) Debategraph home (tags: debate tools mapping)... read full post
Twitter: fount of free drinks
Over the years I reckon I've tried hundreds of social networking sites, blogging and micro-blogging tools, online participatory spaces, and content sharing services. In most instances I register, set up a profile, have a look around, and abandon all in... read full post
links for 2009-01-22
The FASTForward Blog » Gartner: Web 2.0 Tools Exempt from Economic Cutbacks: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary (tags: enterprise web2.0 bubble) mySociety » Blog Archive » Blimey. It looks like the Internets won (tags: opendata government uk)... read full post
links for 2009-01-21
Chrysler Blog - Thank You America wow - how incredibly stupid (tags: usa marketing fail bubble economy) Slaughter and May sidesteps the financial carnage - Times Online (tags: law legal) Gordon Brown withdraws plan to keep details of MPs'... read full post
links for 2009-01-20
A renaissance in UK blogging : ShinyRed (tags: blogging uk) 1 small lesson for organisations about supporting network innovation (tags: networks innovation) Lotus Connections 2.5 announced (tags: ibm connections socialsoftware) Al Jazeera gets free culture (tags: news media cc)... read full post
Local Government breakfast tomorrow
Headshift are sponsoring a Local Government breakfast club meeting on January 20th, in Kings Cross, London. read full post
links for 2009-01-18
YouTube - Web 2.0 Goes to Work for Business (tags: web2.0 learning video ci enterprise business roi) Jaiku Founder: “We’re Not Dying, We’re Morphing” (tags: oss google jaiku microblogging)... read full post
links for 2009-01-17
A Bayesian computational model of social capital in virtual communities (tags: socialcapital bayesian stats networks) Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems - MIT News Office (tags: ci intelligence) Be Careful What You Post | The Home... read full post
links for 2009-01-16
The Online Video Interview Recorder Is Here: SightSpeed 6 Review - Robin Good's Latest News (tags: video interviews) drop.io socialmediameasurement (tags: socialmedia roi) 4iP | 4iP: a digital machine tool factory (tags: channel4 digital 4ip) On Staying Happy |... read full post
links for 2009-01-15
Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction (tags: vc investment economy bubble) Royal Observatory, Greenwich (tags: blogs education) Slaw: Brief Comments on Susskind’s “The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services” (tags: law legal) Intel-backed Enterprise 2.0... read full post
links for 2009-01-14
Public manager: The art of risk management | Society | The Guardian (tags: government risk management investment)... read full post
Do you value your social capital?
To what extent does your company facilitate social networking between employees split by geographical or organisational distance, or with (existing or potential) clients and business partners? What's the value of this social capital to the company (i.e. the connections within... read full post
links for 2009-01-13
Directgov franchise building - should anyone care to know « Emma Mulqueeny (tags: government portals 1998) R.I.P. Enterprise RSS - ReadWriteWeb "It's with a heavy heart and a sense of bewilderment that we conclude that the market for enterprise-specific... read full post
The Next Web '09
Amsterdam is famous for many things, and one of them is the Next Web conference. Judging from previous events, this year's the Next Web will be offering oodles of inspiration, networking opportunities, entrepreneurial ideas, and FUN! The conference is scheduled... read full post
links for 2009-01-11
Enterprise 2.0 (Frank Buytendijk Blog) (tags: enterprise business it businessmodel) Britain Seen from Above: the Outtakes - information aesthetics (tags: dataviz video uk tv) Anecdote: Trends that will affect enterprise collaboration "The beginning of the year is a good... read full post
links for 2009-01-10
Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand's Reputation (tags: monitoring)... read full post
links for 2009-01-09
User Journeys › Wireframes Magazine (tags: webdesign ued) iGov - The Atlantic (January/February 2009) (tags: government egov) Mobiles give Africa's farmers the chance to set out their stall | Katine | The Observer (tags: mobile africa markets) Best Buy... read full post
Business will be different in 5 years - fundamentally different
Think for a minute about how you used to book your holidays, buy your music, find an address or select insurance - 10 or even 5 years ago? Do you even bother to search for things these days or do... read full post
links for 2009-01-07
mySociety » Blog Archive » Top 5 Internet Priorities for the Next Government (any next Government) (tags: government opendata) Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results? - ReadWriteWeb (tags: google semantic_web)... read full post
links for 2009-01-06
2009 “a good year to change the world” | Open (minds, finds, conversations)... (tags: change) What Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers can teach us about interface design (tags: design culture language) Wireframes Magazine (tags: design webdesign wireframes)... read full post
links for 2009-01-05
Mini-Microsoft: Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs (tags: anthropology bureaucracy microsoft corporate) Digital guru Clay Shirky's media forecast and predictions for 2009 | Media | The Guardian (tags: culture digital shirky media) Collaborative Thinking: 2009: Planning Considerations For Enterprise 2.0... read full post
Smaller, smarter solutions for charities and non-profits
Some thoughts on how single-issue-groups, charities and membership organisations can use the collective knowledge and passions of their supporters in much more creative and accessible ways using simple open source tools. read full post
links for 2009-01-04
My new progressivism. Part three, politics | Matthew Taylor's blog (tags: politics)... read full post
links for 2009-01-02
Andy Burnham and Internet site classification | Tom Watson MP (tags: government fail internet children) Why blogs matter to the BBC (tags: bbc blogs blogging journalism)... read full post
links for 2009-01-01
Social bookmarking for journalists | Online Journalism Blog "How journalists can use web bookmarking services to manage, find and publish documents. Every newspaper has a library, and most journalists have kept some sort of cuttings file for reference. But... read full post
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