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March 2009 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2009-03-31
YouTube - The Story of Co-Design by thinkpublic (tags: codesign design publicservices servicedesign)... read full post
Headshift hosting SOMESSO pre-event
We are proud to announce our partnership with SOMESSO London, a must-attend event for industry leaders, brand managers, sales and marketing experts, new media specialists, internet marketers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other financiers. Some excellent speakers are lined up for... read full post
links for 2009-03-30
Gary Hamel on Managing Generation Y - the Facebook Generation - Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 - WSJ (tags: management structure enterprise) Why There Are No Models for New Journalism | Newsweek Newsweek Voices - Jacob Weisberg | Newsweek.com (tags:... read full post
links for 2009-03-28
Barcamp Canberra: A Gov 2.0 Postcard from Headshift, London (tags: australia government egov headshift)... read full post
links for 2009-03-27
/Message: I Am Afraid Of Ghosts: Guy Kawasaki And The Dilution Of Social (tags: socialmedia twitter authenticity socialnetworking) Brando Social» Blog Archive » Discovering the hidden talents (tags: social intranets people business enterprise) Social Weather Mapping with Twitter -... read full post
A visit to the R&D department of the New York Times
Recently I was fortunate enough to visit the Research and Development department of the New York Times thanks to the kind invitation of the people of Agency.com that I am working with here in NY. For many people the Gray... read full post
links for 2009-03-26
Audience Matrix: Our thoughts on the Drupal 7 audience : Journal : Mark Boulton (tags: uxd drupal consulting) The Atlassian Blog - Confluence - key internal comms tool for Earth Hour (tags: atlassian confluence wiki environment casestudies)... read full post
Amongst other things, we're connectors
Over the past few weeks two interesting things have surfaced time and time and time again in the client workshops, consulting engagements and pitches I've been involved in here at Headshift, namely that:the work we do behind firewall on the... read full post
Belated Ada Lovelace Day post
Late as usual to the Ada Lovelace Party, here is my post about female technology heroes read full post
links for 2009-03-24
W3C Working Draft: Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web Recognizing that governments throughout the World need assistance and guidance in achieving the promises of electronic government through technology and the Web, this document seeks to... read full post
links for 2009-03-23
Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Can Enterprise Social Networking Pay Off? (tags: roi enterprise socialsoftware adoption) How the iPhone 3.0 Will Create a New Mobile Economy (tags: iphone development) Scobleizer: Technology, innovation, and geek enthusiasm » Blog... read full post
Launching Shell's first climate Change Blog
Helping Shell launch their first climate change conversation blog read full post
links for 2009-03-22
BBC - BBC Internet Blog: New Look For BBC Blogs (tags: bbc headshift casestudies)... read full post
links for 2009-03-21
26 Charities and Non-Profits That Tweet It’s no small wonder then that non-profits abound on Twitter. With the free and easy-to-setup interface, a potential to reach a vast audience, the ability to engage with people in conversation directly, and... read full post
Enabled by Design v0.1 is alive and kicking
New design innovation site launched for Enabled by Design this week - feedback welcome. read full post
links for 2009-03-20
Life With Alacrity: Community by the Numbers, Part One: Group Thresholds "We often think of communities as organic creatures, which come into existence and grow on their own. However, the truth is they are fragile blossoms. Although many communities... read full post
links for 2009-03-19
Replay Information: Enterprise Social Networking <p>If you missed the live webcast today on enterprise social networking, you can listen to the replay my following this link:</p> <p><a href="http://www.brighttalk.com/channels/750/view">Enterprise Social Networks: A Field Research Study</a></p> <p>The webcast will show up... read full post
The future of the media is social
In addition to doing strategic social media consulting, workshops and training days for clients, I've recently had the pleasure of teaching on several of the postgraduate courses offered by the College of Journalism at City University London where I'm a... read full post
links for 2009-03-17
Winning by Sharing: Trust is the killer app (tags: trust) Strange Attractor » Blog Archive » Businesses will live to regret their social media ignorance (tags: business it socialmedia enterprise) The Rise Of The Social Nervous System - Forbes.com... read full post
links for 2009-03-16
Top Five Web Design Tools (tags: webdesign software) David Mitchell on the public sector and online feedback | Comment is free | The Observer (tags: comments feedback ugc) ChiefTech: Wait, we've got a pulse - Enterprise RSS (tags: enterprise... read full post
Manage, and you might survive. Facilitate, and you will thrive.
Recently I went to see an organization, and a good while into a very pleasant conversation I was asked: 'Will we (organization) become obsolete in ten years'? What a daunting question! What had happened? The organization has about 1000 member... read full post
links for 2009-03-15
New technology for Nòva100 - Paolo Weblog (tags: italy rss publishing evectors) Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: Open Government Data in the Netherlands (tags: opendata government netherlands) Caselines: Decentralized and Personalized KM (tags: headshift pkm km knowledge) Microblogging Will Marginalize Corporate... read full post
links for 2009-03-14
HCSS Centre for Strategic Studies - Publication - Developing Strategy: On Effects-Based Operations, Complex Adaptive Systems, and the Importance of Biological Connotations (tags: systems complexity war)... read full post
links for 2009-03-13
scraplab : my last day at headshift (tags: headshift) Social media training - an online guide :: Blog :: Headshift (tags: socialmedia training adoption)... read full post
Social media training - an online guide
One of the best things about my job here at Headshift is that I have various opportunities to inform and enthuse people about the benefits of using social media tools and services to support their existing processes. In order for... read full post
How to find the people you need
Rich profiles can be a powerful cornerstone of an Enterprise 2.0 / next generation intranet / social business software solution. Finding people rather than documents can be highly beneficial in terms of productivity, using information rather than looking for it,... read full post
links for 2009-03-12
Doug Cornelius .com · Online Social Networking: Is It a Productivity Bust or Boon for Law Firms? (tags: law legal socialnetworking productivity) jaggeree /Blog : : Why the Government should build APIs and let survival of the fittest build... read full post
Sharepoint as an Enterprise 2.0 platform
After my recent posts on Jive, Socialtext and Connections, some people have been asking me where I see Sharepoint fitting in. I was planning a long post on it, but having read Thomas Vander Wal's recent post I have nothing... read full post
links for 2009-03-11
FT.com / UK / Politics & policy - NHS website spending attacked (tags: patientopinion nhs nhschoices government waste) IT must change to keep pace with connected users | IT Leadership | TechRepublic.com The irony is harsh, and a little... read full post
links for 2009-03-10
Why Skittles Killed Its Web Site Here's the message Skittles is sending: What consumers say about the brand is more important than what the brand has to say to consumers. (tags: twitter facebook wikipedia brands usergeneratedcontent consumers)... read full post
links for 2009-03-09
When Skittles Met Twitter - BusinessWeek (tags: events conferences smi09 headshift) What does Enterprise 2.0 mean for the IT department? | SocialComputingMagazine.com "I've come up with my Top 10 Challenges for IT departments around Enterprise 2.0. This is by... read full post
Lotus Connections 2.5 - coming soon
As mentioned in my previous post, Lotus Connections is due to receive a significant upgrade in the Summer. It addresses many of the serious functional gaps that have been present up until now (such as lack of wiki functionality) as... read full post
One conference, two conference, three conference...
Over the past week, I've spent more time at conferences than at Headshift Towers. Last Tuesday was Social Media Influence where Headshift sponsored, and I moderated, a panel on "Having Difficult Conversations". On the panel were our friends Paolo Valdemarin... read full post
links for 2009-03-08
BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | BBC News, Twitter and suits (tags: twitter media bbc journalism) Social Media Influence 09 (tags: conferences events paolo smi09 change adoption) Living with Cancer in Silicon... read full post
links for 2009-03-07
Templates and toolkits (User experience design resources) Templates and toolkits for user experience designers. Includes Visio wireframing stencils, persona design templates and document templates (tags: toolkit desiign, UI,)... read full post
links for 2009-03-05
Facebook’s Response To Twitter (tags: facebook twitter socialdesign)... read full post
New features of Socialtext - Signals and Desktop
Socialtext have released Socialtext Signals, as well as Socialtext Desktop which I took a look at today. The easiest way to explain Signals is "Twitter for the Enterprise" but Socialtext have added a few features that give it extra... read full post
links for 2009-03-03
Mashable on Tumblr - Jon Stewart Shakes His Fist at Twitter “Let’s... (tags: twitter attention media) This is the Microsoft I want to see » VentureBeat (tags: future microsoft) Social tools in the public sector | Socialsquare - we... read full post
links for 2009-03-02
BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital politics is different (tags: liberty privacy online) Sacked for mentioning job was boring on Facebook... | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com (tags: facebook socialnetworking employment sacked) People-whispering « Enlightened tradition (tags: management enterprise2.0 managementtheory)... read full post
Do the Green Thing API
Greenthing has an API! read full post
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