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June 2009 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2009-06-30
Review of Headshift's Penny Edwards' "Social Networking for the Legal Profession" (tags: legal socialnetworking report arkgroup headshift) Spigit Blog: Is Enterprise 2.0 Just for Knowledge Workers? (tags: knowledge socialnetworking enterprise) Reboot asks: what is the highest form of efficiency?... read full post
Companies at the edge of chaos are like our brains
One of the key fears of people that manage knowledge workers is that losing control might mean losing authority and standing. Perhaps they fear that conceptualizing innovation plans might lose the power of processes, quality guidelines or other built-up best... read full post
links for 2009-06-29
How Beautiful it is, and How Easily it can be Broken : Andrew McAfee’s Blog (tags: e20conf enterprise adoption tips) Debunking Social Media Myths - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org It's worth noting that seeding, feeding, and weeding all take... read full post
What use is Social Media to the Pharmaceutical Industry?
Coming from a pharmaceutical background I've been keeping a close eye on the industry's use of social technologies. Whilst working on the inside I focused on social business and connecting people behind the firewall. Now I'm on the outside I've... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession - Shaping New Ways of Working
Consider for a moment where you turn when you're looking for a document, a reference or information about who's working on what and with which clients. Commonly people will ask their colleagues or send out an email to their team... read full post
links for 2009-06-28
Becoming An Open Enterprise: Five Lessons from Booz Allen Hamilton - Toolbar - REALHS (tags: casestudies bah e20conf events adoption)... read full post
links for 2009-06-26
Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com (tags: enterprise adoption events e20conf) The secret sauce to successful Enterprise 2.0 adoption (tags: enterprise events e20conf) Government 1.0 is dead. Prepare for the Age of Government 2.0! :: Australia... read full post
links for 2009-06-25
Movable Type Experts Team Up On Melody, An Open Source Publishing Platform (tags: blogging software movabletype melody oss) Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the... read full post
links for 2009-06-24
Microsoft Sharepoint vs. Enterprise 2.0 Start-ups: Day of Reckoning Arrives - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership (tags: sharepoint enterprise) Andy Hobsbawm: From social media to social good - Features, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent (tags: social meaning rebootbritain)... read full post
links for 2009-06-23
Enterprise 2.0 Must be Aligned with Business Process | SAP Web 2.0 (tags: bluekiwi enterprise software) News : NDS (tags: learning universities socialmedia education) Logic+Emotion: From Social Media To Social Business Design (tags: socialbusiness enterprise socialmedia) Paul Miller: Weary... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession - when 'social' means 'business'
For lawyers, social networking has always been an important feature of the way they do business, and there are many characteristics of lawyerly behaviour that map very closely to the features of online social networking, such as: Relationship based-business development;Individual... read full post
links for 2009-06-22
The FASTForward Blog » Social Business Design and the Real Time Enterprise: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary (tags: socialbusiness enterprise realtime signals integration) Social capital and social networks - what are we talking about? : Connected Communities... read full post
links for 2009-06-21
How we can recalibrate the notion of organization (tags: organisations) Patient engagement is a Good Thing - but only on the NHS's terms. (tags: engagement patientopinion nhs health) Twitter on the Barricades in Iran - Six Lessons Learned -... read full post
links for 2009-06-20
What Sets Your Law Firm Apart? | Above and Beyond KM (tags: headshift nyc events km knowledge technology) Clay Shirky on Institutions vs. Collaboration – Business 2.0 (tags: headshift shirky enterprise) Rebooting Britain | SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and... read full post
links for 2009-06-19
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Launches Spacebook "We took a leap of faith and rocketed into social networking this week with the launch of Spacebook, an employee intranet that features user profiles, group collaboration spaces and social bookmarking. This... read full post
links for 2009-06-18
ChiefTech: Intranets and social computing - first mover disadvantage? (tags: intranet innovation enterprise)... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession - Challenging Conditions
With the release of our publication Social Networking for the Legal Profession, I will be introducing in a series of blogs some of the topics and themes outlined in more detail in the report. I will start the series with... read full post
links for 2009-06-17
Open Government Data Netherlands Update (tags: netherlands opendata government events)... read full post
Headshift on Al Jazeera News
On Monday I was interviewed by Al Jazeera about the use of social media tools, particularly twitter, by protesters in Iran. Here’s the clip:... read full post
links for 2009-06-16
The White House - Blog Post - New Technologies and Participation (tags: government participation usa) How Twitter's #charitytuesday became an instant hit | Frances Booth | Society | guardian.co.uk Five weeks on from its launch, #charitytuesday has gained momentum.... read full post
links for 2009-06-15
Clay Shirky on Institutions vs. Collaboration – Business 2.0 (tags: organisations collaboration headshift) potlatch: the future of 'change' (tags: government change) Missed Atlassian Summit? (tags: atlassian) Toward a Pattern Language for Enterprise 2.0 : Andrew McAfee’s Blog (tags: enterprise... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession
We are proud to announce a major new report, published in association with Ark Group, entitled Social Networking for the Legal Profession, which looks in depth at current practice in social networking and social technologies within the legal sector read full post
What should EU governments do with the web to transform public services?
To encourage EU governments to act more quickly on public services 2.0, we have joined with other partners to launch (what we hope will become) a co-created declaration on public services to sit alongside the ministerial declaration at Malmo in November 2009. read full post
Futures planning with horizon scanning and social computing - Part 2
In the same way that the Web has changed the communication habits of millions of people, social computing is evolving to help us work with and in complex adaptive systems. The insights from Snowden and Jackson about 'foresight' and complexity,... read full post
links for 2009-06-14
The Atlassian Blog - Confluence Case Study: Mambo Foundation (tags: ngo nonprofits confluence casestudies) SocialText (tags: enterprise cio strategy) An Open Letter to 20th-Century Business - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org (tags: business c20 structure organisations) The Musicians of Atlassian... read full post
links for 2009-06-13
Cognitive Edge: KCUK09 - presentation (tags: events conferences kcuk09 km knowledge) Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. (tags: google wave collaboration) Google Waves at the world of collaboration « Illuminate the Edge... read full post
links for 2009-06-12
Why you should add social computing to your IT strategy :: Australia :: Headshift Unlike traditional IT approaches, social computing provides some flexibility in how your use it to either compliment, augment or revolutionise your IT approach. (tags: socialsoftware... read full post
Social networks as information filters
Yesterday, I went along to the InformatieProfessional Conference here in Amsterdam. As with all things associated with the web these days, the theme of the conference was Integrity 2.0. Key issues revolved around data privacy, information reliability and management of... read full post
Business 2.0
As organisations become more transparent, more open, more prepared to share we are seeing more and more intellectual capital being given away "free". There is the over-quoted example of Goldmine giving away its geological data, Sun Microsystems and IBM giving... read full post
Futures planning with horizon scanning and social computing - Part I
In today's complex and turbulent environment, organisations need 'foresight' to be able to respond promptly to various change drivers including technology, sustainability, globalisation and the economy. Essentially 'foresight' is a participative approach to creating shared long-term visions to inform short... read full post
links for 2009-06-10
Enterprise 2.0 at Goodwin Procter | Compliance Building (tags: casestudies enterprise law legal) The Future of Collaborative Networks (tags: enterprise collaboration)... read full post
links for 2009-06-09
Feeding the Puppy: Corporate Social Networking Forum - liveblog (tags: events conferences #csnf)... read full post
links for 2009-06-08
#csnf - Lee Bryant and Credit Crunch Culture - The Social Enterprise (tags: conferences events headshift #csnf) Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org Twitter is one of the world's most radical management innovators. It's... read full post
links for 2009-06-07
The Rise Of Social Distribution Networks (tags: socialnetworks traffic streams)... read full post
links for 2009-06-06
Atlassian - OpenSocial (tags: opensocial atlassian) All Around You - A home for creative community media. All Around You is a free service that supports you in publishing content about your local community. Are you from a community organisation?... read full post
links for 2009-06-05
Reactions to next09 from around the Web - next09 (tags: events conferences next09)... read full post
links for 2009-06-04
Globant and BT Hold the First UK-Argentina Simultaneous Code Jam - Yahoo! Finance (tags: globant bt osmosot oss mediawiki) BDD Workshop JCF's BDD workshop notes (tags: development code rails bdd tutorial tdd testing)... read full post
What's an API and why do I want one?
That's a question I was asked a few days ago by a client. It's a fair question, too - there's no point in building features into systems unless they provide some benefit, so why would you want to spend time... read full post
links for 2009-06-03
How to Save the World: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO IMPLEMENTING WEB 2.0 (AKA SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS) IN YOUR ORGANIZATION (tags: socialmedia adoption) E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez »... read full post
Finally, some thoughts out of UX Intensive Berlin - Adaptive Path
I was counting down the days to attend the UX Intensive Berlin, expecting it to be the best representation of UX workshops in Europe. The Adaptive Path team is almost a "legend" within the field, and they managed to cover those promises with a very competent and receptive team. While I was trying to distill the main positive outcomes out of those days, I realised I was already applying some of the techniques provided on the sessions. read full post
CSS tricks and tips - Spruce up deleted elements
Using semantic markup it's quick and easy to style elements using nested spans. read full post
links for 2009-06-02
E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » The Twitter Experiment - By Dr. Monica Rankin I am sure that, after watching the video and reading through the document, there... read full post
links for 2009-06-01
4ip: A guide to the Channel 4-funded projects so far | Media | guardian.co.uk (tags: innovation 4ip c4) Mapumental (tags: geodata maps mapping uk) Beyond Westminster's bankrupted practices, a new idealism is emerging | Madeleine Bunting | Comment is... read full post
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