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May 2009 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2009-05-31
On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired - WSJ.com "You don't need a TV. You don't need a radio. You don't even need a newspaper," says Mr. Pitts, an aspiring poet in a purple cap and... read full post
links for 2009-05-30
Visible Vote! Visible Vote allows you to write congress personal letters from your iPhone, Vote on the Bills your legislators are voting on and it then updates them with your voting preference. (tags: government2.0 participation voting iphone unitedstates) Abandon... read full post
links for 2009-05-29
Abandon Stocks, Embrace Flows - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.org (tags: flow km knowledge) twopointouch | Surrender! Foucault and Twitter (tags: foucault surveillance socialweb) jaggeree /Blog : : Brief look back at Somesso (tags: events conferences headshift)... read full post
From the Local Village to the Global Village and back
Over the past decades we have seen the world becoming smaller and smaller thanks to new technologies. Location has almost become irrelevant when it comes to communicating, collaborating and connecting with other people. If I want to see someone in... read full post
links for 2009-05-28
Navigating the Enterprise 2.0 Highway | LLRX.com (tags: casestudies law legal thoughtfarmer) Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - O'Reilly Radar (tags: html html5 webdesign)... read full post
Your corporate website is irrelevant
The days of the monolithic corporate website are numbered. Twentieth century corporate structures, which, to borrow sentiment, if not words from Lee Bryant, put the World's window upon your organisation in the hands of the IT guys in the basement... read full post
links for 2009-05-27
Revealed: Twitter's commercial model | Digital | Revolution (tags: twitter business businessmodel) The Myth of Macroinnovation - O'Reilly Radar (tags: innovation government scale)... read full post
Openness, transparency and MP's expenses...
The recent MPs expenses saga has shown an interesting case study in common sense vs business processes. When judged by whether or not their expense claims were against the rules or not, hardly any MPs have been found to have... read full post
links for 2009-05-25
SOMESSO London 09 - Trailer on Vimeo (tags: conferences events somesso) 40 Beautiful Examples of Minimalism in Web Design (tags: webdesign design minimal)... read full post
links for 2009-05-24
Bloggasm » Anti-Starbucks filmmakers hijack the coffee company’s own Twitter marketing campaign (tags: socialmedia marketing protest twitter)... read full post
links for 2009-05-22
The Atlassian Blog - Video: Confluence Approvals Workflow Plugin (tags: confluence wiki workflow) Social Science Moves from Academia to the Corporation - O'Reilly Radar (tags: socialscience corporate) A world without Word (tags: microsoft word) Why Elegantly Simple Solutions Become... read full post
links for 2009-05-20
Enterprise 2.0 To Become a $4.6 Billion Industry By 2013 - ReadWriteWeb (tags: enterprise socialsoftware business market) SixApart Engaging WordPress, and Other Thoughts on WordCamp Mid-Atlantic | Technosailor.com (tags: blogging software 6a wordpress) laconi.ca – implementing a twitter-clone or... read full post
NYC Seminar on 'How to Use Enterprise Social Software to Flourish in the Recession'
Headshift is co-hosting a very special breakfast seminar in New York City on June 16 together with Intelligent Video Solutions, a New York based video production and marketing company creating professional videos for legal and professional services. read full post
links for 2009-05-18
Starting a Corporate Social Network? Don't - BusinessWeek (tags: socialnetworks business saas)... read full post
links for 2009-05-17
Introducing Zzub.it - Paolo Weblog Zzub.it (tags: social_networks brands aggregation evectors) Collaborative Thinking: Saba Social Left Out Of IBM Deal (tags: ibm learning saba) The wrong answer to the BBC’s image problem? : Matthew Taylor’s blog (tags: bbc media... read full post
links for 2009-05-15
With Valeo deal, Google Apps gains business cred | Software, Interrupted - CNET News (tags: google googleapps saas enterprise)... read full post
links for 2009-05-14
Notes from Day 2 at Connecting Up Australia 2009 :: Australia :: Headshift The main point of my presentation was to talk about the importance of taking a social computing approach to developing social media solutions, which is at... read full post
National Express miss the Cluetrain
I'm a regular rail traveller on the East Coast Main Line, so when news of "innovative customer management technology" being deployed by operator National Express arrived in my inbox, I had to take a look.According to the press-release-masquerading-as-a-news-article in Computing... read full post
links for 2009-05-13
Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker (tags: strategy assymetric indirect gladwell) Do Sociable Media herald the transition from complaint to FYI? | Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data (tags: socialmedia feedback... read full post
Ruby on Rails explained (in something approaching plain English)
There's been no shortage of "magic bullet" technologies over the years, and one of the hottest things in web development at the moment is Ruby on Rails. At Headshift we're using Rails for an increasing number of projects, and we're... read full post
links for 2009-05-12
Journalism 2.0: Don't Throw Out the Baby - ReadWriteWeb (tags: media journalism)... read full post
links for 2009-05-11
Are the Only Innovations in Social Entrepreneurship Anglo-Saxon? — Social Edge (tags: socialenterprise culture international) Dilbert.com - The Official Dilbert Website with Scott Adams' color strips, Dilbert animation, mashups and more! (tags: business funny trust)... read full post
Society of the Technical: the common ground between art and social media
So, the first project I've been put to work on since starting at Headshift six weeks ago was the site for Anthony Gormley's One and Other project - a pretty massive undertaking that aims to put 2400 people on... read full post
Internet Explorer 6 Don't hate, Educate.
Today's browser market has become a fast paced and competitive world with focus on standards compliance, rendering and load times, and customisation. Each browser has its own unique selling points be it stability, development extensions, or just how it feels. It is not uncommon knowledge that Internet Explorer 6 is the elephant in the room and safe to say that it is a large thorn in the side of any web developer. Too often is functionality sacrificed, and layouts and functions hacked in order to satisfy this old fashioned browser. read full post
links for 2009-05-10
E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Is the iPhone Enterprise Ready? (tags: iphone enterprise mobile) YouTube - Observing Next 2009 (tags: conferences events next09 video future culture) The... read full post
links for 2009-05-09
User-Driven Companies Should Start from Within :: Blog :: Headshift (tags: headshift userdriven innovation business culture engagement)... read full post
User-Driven Companies Should Start from Within
My talk about user-driven companies and how we can go beyond surface-level user engagement from the Next09 conference in Hamburg. read full post
links for 2009-05-08
Lee Bryant on Enterprise RSS and Independent Consultants with Short Attention Spans | Scott Gavin (tags: headshift rss enterprise adoption) You scratch my beak and I’ll scratch yours - Information World Review (tags: headshift twitter enterprise adoption)... read full post
Going with the flow: whither enterprise RSS?
Reports of the death of RSS at the hands of Twitter are exaggerated, though they contain a grain of truth. Here's why I think we are yet to see its real value in the enterprise. read full post
UsNow Film to go on general (internet) release
Us Now - the film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet - will enjoy its public online launch in London on May 12th read full post
Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared? Part 3 / 3
This is the 3rd part of a blog post looking at user adoption.1) Overview of barriers to introducing Enterprise 2.0 and user adoption2) Scrutinizing barriers to user adoption3) Thoughts on how to attract second-wave adopters In the previous post we... read full post
Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared? Part 2 / 3
This is the 2nd part of a blog post looking at user adoption.1) Overview of barriers to introducing Enterprise 2.0 and user adoption2) Scrutinizing barriers to user adoption3) Thoughts on how to attract second-wave adopters In the first post I... read full post
Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared? Part 1 / 3
I decided to break this blog post down into three parts, as it had become way too long during all those endless nights of writing. The general theme is that in the near future we will see more companies starting... read full post
How are you preparing for the boom?
The cycle of boom and bust is a part of the market system. Bust follows boom, boom follows bust. (The timing varies and that's the tricky bit.) How are you and your organisation preparing for the boom? read full post
links for 2009-05-06
Us Now launch - Eventbrite (tags: usnowfilm participation) Next For the Enterprise: Social Business Software Suites (tags: jive socialbusiness socialsoftware) The Best Business Model in the World - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org (tags: businessmodel passion) The Day DoD KM... read full post
BBC London mention
I quite frequently give presentations and run workshops about blogging. For a taste of the sort I things I cover in those sessions, have a look at the series of 8 posts about using the whole web as your canvas... read full post
links for 2009-05-05
/Message: From Email Culture To Stream Culture: Out Of The Inbox (tags: flow networks productivity) Zen and the Art of Social Media Guideline Maintenance :: Australia :: Headshift (tags: socialmedia guidelines) See Wolfram Alpha in Action: Our Screenshots -... read full post
links for 2009-05-04
Anthropology: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site (tags: community design anthropology) Why text messages are limited to 160 characters | Technology | Los Angeles Times (tags: design constraints twitter sms)... read full post
links for 2009-05-03
Knowledge Management 101? | Above and Beyond KM (tags: knowledge km)... read full post
links for 2009-05-02
Guardian.co.uk: Rusbridger on open-source journalism | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog (tags: media oss journalism twitter)... read full post
links for 2009-05-01
Enterprise Social Media Useage Policies and Guidelines | SocialComputingJournal.com (tags: socialmedia policy) Twitter Quitters Just Don't Get It - social networking, twitter - CIO A Nielsen report this week revealed that Twitter has an uncanny knack for hemorrhaging users.... read full post
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