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February 2009 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2009-02-27
Managing the Fire Hose | Above and Beyond KM (tags: knowledge km pkm filters flow feeds) Working with Headshift, at Kevin Mulryne's moblog Headshift workshop (tags: headshift workshop km socialsoftware) x design project: » Natalie Jeremijenko (tags: environment design... read full post
The Twentieth Century was Wrong
A short talk that suggests perhaps the Twentieth Century models many organisations fall back on are not as established as they think. In fact, social network-based business and co-ordination have a much longer history than we think. read full post
Join Headshift at the Social Media Influence Conference
Headshift is delighted to be sponsoring this year's Social Media Influence Conference on Tuesday 3rd March at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London. It promises to be an exciting agenda, with speakers from YouTube, SixApart, Microsoft, Sony and LinkedIn, and,... read full post
links for 2009-02-26
A lesson in enablement from US Joint Forces Command Millennium Challenge 02 (tags: networks systems c20 military organisation) Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks ... - Google Book Search (tags: diaspora networks history anthropology economics) Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive »... read full post
An invitation to create a unique living monument
Antony Gormley, the man behind Britain's best-loved sculpture The Angel of the North, has launched an idea to bring everyday people across the UK into this monumental position. read full post
Reduce management costs with Enterprise 2.0
I was with a customer the other day who very succinctly described their business motivation for delivering an Enterprise 2.0 intranet. "We're looking to expand, but without increasing management costs".Employees who are efficiently networked don't need management making sure that... read full post
links for 2009-02-24
Mediawiki as a Patent Law Firm’s Knowledge Management System | The Invent Blog® (tags: casestudies wiki mediawiki law legal)... read full post
Integrate Lotus Connections and Confluence
Despite Lotus Connections being a great option for organisations looking to deploy a social software platform, it does not include any wiki functionality. This is going to be remedied in a Summer release, but for organisations looking to get started... read full post
links for 2009-02-23
Dave Snowden's 7 Principles of Knowledge Management (tags: knowledge km principles sharing)... read full post
links for 2009-02-22
Intel Communities: IT@Intel Blog: Why Intel is investing in Social Computing (tags: intel socialcomputing usecases enterprise) Wide Awake Developers: Fast Iteration versus Elegant Design (tags: iteration design) Constructive Capitalism - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org (tags: thinking economics capitalism recession)... read full post
links for 2009-02-21
T N T — The Network Thinker: Contagion amongst Banks (tags: banking banks sna networks) RSS Hits the Big Time (tags: rss government opendata) Survey on the use of IT in french companies (tags: it france research) Non-Hierarchical Management... read full post
Attending Mobile Tech 4 Social Change in NYC - 21 Feb 2009
I will be attending Mobile Tech 4 Social Change in NYC tomorrow. As the invitation states it's all about how mobile phones are changing the way we organize, advocate, provide health and other social services -- in short, make the... read full post
links for 2009-02-20
How Lawyers and Legal Professionals Use Web 2.0 | Social Media Law Student (tags: law legal socialtools) How to Save the World: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS, RISK AND OPPORTUNITY (tags: risk probability chance) What do you want to see at... read full post
Jive, Lotus Connections and Socialtext
Until recently, organisations who wanted to implement social software or "Enterprise 2.0" faced the task of integrating various best of breed components. You might take a wiki, a blog, an enterprise RSS server, and glue them all together. This is... read full post
Public services are more important than online election campaigns
Transforming government and public services are more important than electioneering, so it will be interesting to see whether the impending UK election campaign accelerates change or holds it back in favour of traditional politics. read full post
What do you want to see at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this year?
We are very focused on micro-level behavioural transition strategies to support the adoption of enterprise social tools. Is that the sort of thing you might want to se at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this year? read full post
Is the concept of microblogging scalable?
It seems that there are only two topics people talk about these days . One is the economic turmoil and the other is the microblogging service Twitter. While there is unanimous consent that we are facing one of the worst... read full post
Creating that Niche Social Network, or Not?
So here you are. You have a company. You have some customers, quite a lot of them in fact, and some of them are loyal, very loyal. And now you're thinking it might be a good idea to get some... read full post
links for 2009-02-19
Six ways to make Web 2.0 work - The McKinsey Quarterly - Six ways Web 2.0 work - Business Technology - Application Management (tags: research web2.0 enterprise adoption) techPresident – Why the White House's Embrace of Drupal Matters (tags:... read full post
links for 2009-02-18
Risk and Opportunity: The Web 2.0 Challenge | Above and Beyond KM (tags: risk web2.0 responsibility) Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism (tags: geodata location)... read full post
Technical Consultant
Headshift is seeking an experienced Technical Consultant to join our growing social software consulting team, based in London. You will be a core member of the team and expected to guide the technical aspects of projects. This will involve analysing... read full post
links for 2009-02-17
HyLighter - Login (tags: software documents collaboration) Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom | Video on TED.com (tags: wisdom human behaviour motivation service) “Innovation” is Dead. “Transformation” is the Next Key Concept for 2009 « Innovation 2.0 and…... read full post
links for 2009-02-16
Mining The Thought Stream (tags: socialsearch twitter)... read full post
links for 2009-02-15
Worldeka [PRIVATE BETA] : Welcome to the revolution of WE // (tags: charity international socialnetworks) Recommind - Technology (tags: search semweb conceptsearch) Five Things Every Legal Practice Should Know About Web 2.0 (tags: headshift law legal enterprise socialsoftware adoption)... read full post
links for 2009-02-13
NodeXL - Home (tags: sna socialnetworks dataviz)... read full post
Five Things Every Legal Practice Should Know About Web 2.0
V. Mary Abraham and I ran a session at Legaltech New York earlier this month about the impact of Web2.0 technology and ideas on Law firm IT. Here is an overview and some slides from that session. read full post
links for 2009-02-12
How to Find the Right Wiki for Your Project or Organization (tags: wiki software reviews) Barriers to innovation (tags: innovation process management) web 2.0, conversations, manipulations, and the case of Eluana Englaro (tags: italy democracy web2.0 participation) Smarta: Think... read full post
links for 2009-02-10
FutureGov : Local Government Breakfast Club » Features » FutureGov Networks: the Local Government Breakfast Club (tags: government localgovernment events)... read full post
Wikipatterns: the book
Wikipatterns.com, a site that Headshift is happy to have helped design and customise, "is a toolbox of patterns & anti-patterns, and a guide to the stages of wiki adoption".Stewart Mader is the person behind the site and the author of... read full post
links for 2009-02-09
HP Labs : Research: Social Computing Lab Papers from the HP Social Computing Lab (tags: academic socialsoftware research socialcomputing papers) More of London from above, at night - The Big Picture - Boston.com (tags: london photos fromabove) Where data... read full post
Looking forward to LIFT
Coming to LIFT? It is a great event in Geneva every February. read full post
links for 2009-02-05
Law Librarian Blog: Professionals and Web 2.0 (tags: professional socialsoftware enterprise adoption research) Accidental Tweet announces senior BBC appointments (but are now official) | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog (tags: twitter bbc news privacy) Clay Shirky on group action getting easier... read full post
Broken Buying
At the UK Government Bar Camp last weekend, there was a lot of discussion in many of the sessions about public sector procurement - particularly IT procurement.Basically, it's broken.I was acutely aware of this before I turned up at the... read full post
links for 2009-02-04
Becta Emerging Technologies - TechNews analysis (tags: learning education technology) PBwiki on ‘09 Plans, SharePoint, Wikis for Design Workflow (tags: wiki socialsoftware)... read full post
links for 2009-02-03
Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline | Epicenter from Wired.com (tags: saas data fail) Twitter users going to LegalTech New York : Here's a list : Real Lawyers Have Blogs (tags: law legal twitter ltny events conferences)... read full post
links for 2009-02-02
Public services: the next eighteen months will be pivotal | Matthew Taylor's blog (tags: publicservices publicsector government recession) Can social software “work” in Germany? (tags: culture europe germany socialsoftware) FT.com / Technology / Digital Business - Business starts to... read full post
The recession presents a great opportunity to transform Legal IT
The recession presents an opportunity for change, but will IT departments grasp it or continue with business as usual? read full post
links for 2009-02-01
European unions forged online at Mike Butcher (tags: europe headshift events) Erosc workshop: results of the post-it session “what can go wrong” « Socio-economic impact of Social Computing (tags: europe socialcomputing workshop events) CeBIT - Webciety (tags: europe events)... read full post
Three themes for local government in 2009
At the Local Government Breakfast we co-hosted with Futuregov, I outlined three priority area we are keen to pursue with local government in 2009: humanising organisations, difficult conversations and next generation public services. read full post
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