smarter, simpler, social
September 2009 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2009-09-30
Young and addicted to social networks: and they've never written so much - edublogs Clive Thompson in Wired has summed up some definitive research that backs up what many of us have been saying from our guts for years:... read full post
What motivates news eyewitnesses to share?
Yes, it's the second time The Telegraph has come knocking on our door this week - do these things come in threes?"People in the area affected by the Samoa tsunami', writes The Telegraph's Emma Barnett, 'have been documenting the event... read full post
Daily Telegraph asks Headshift: Is London World social media capital?
London is, suggests an article by the Telegraph's Emma Barnett, the social media capital of the World. Here's her evidence:10% of traffic to Digg, the link recommendation service, comes from LondonLondon is the largest geographical network on FacebookTwitter has revealed... read full post
links for 2009-09-29
The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software. (tags: legal, community management, km) Defining Ourselves | Above and Beyond KM... read full post
links for 2009-09-28
Goowiki - The Unofficial Google Wiki - A free wiki from Wikia (tags: google wiki intranet twiki)... read full post
Social enterprise as a low cost business tool
At LegalTech NYC earlier this year, Lee teamed up with V Mary Abraham to explore 'Five Things Every Legal Practice Should Know About Web2.0'. On 15 October, Lee will be speaking at the New Legal IT Forum about 'Social Enterprise... read full post
links for 2009-09-25
In Search of Perfect Client Service: Lean Discussion Very Insightful (tags: legal) 6 knowledge management strategy warnings signs. | lucasmcdonnell.com If you work in knowledge management (or in a KM-like area), you know that on many projects, things go... read full post
links for 2009-09-23
power in networks (tags: power networks stats socialnetworkanalysis sna)... read full post
links for 2009-09-22
BookBlog » Blog Archive » New terms or new trends? - Adina Levin’s weblog. For conversation about books I’ve been reading, social software, and other stuff too. (tags: socialbusiness) review of african political economy (tags: africa politics) World of... read full post
Nested IF statements with Movable Type
One of the - ahem - undocumented features of Movable Type is a certain estotericness about the way it interprets Boolean logic within template tags. That's a polite way of saying it's more-or-less completely unpredictable, which can lead to much... read full post
links for 2009-09-21
Jane Austin & Chris Neale on Sketch Prototypes (tags: ux uxd sketching) Hope out of Africa (tags: rwanda development it technology africa) How Facebook tried to put a shine on $9.5m privacy suit (tags: facebok privacy advertising)... read full post
links for 2009-09-18
portal KMOL » Blog Archive » Ferramentas sociais na aprendizagem e no ensino (tags: km knowledge headshift portugal) Update: New Scientist house rules on commenting - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist (tags: comments commenting policy socialmedia debate) Are... read full post
What drives sustainability in a 21st Century law firm?
A key section of our report "Social Networking for the Legal Profession" looks forward to the next phase in the evolution of social networking for lawyers. One of the initiatives highlighted in the report is the BT thought-leadership project to... read full post
links for 2009-09-17
Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 5 - {run} - Atlassian News (tags: confluence data business) Jivespace: Jive Talks: Extending SBS Again - Unveiling Jive Market Engagement! (tags: jive socialmedia monitoring socialbusiness software)... read full post
links for 2009-09-16
Social Business Design as a metaphor (tags: socialbusiness) Bad news Ringen in New Labour ears : Matthew Taylor’s blog (tags: plitics uk management change incentives systems)... read full post
Adoption of social tools in Clifford Chance
During our Insight Event last week, Sam Dimond (Director of Knowledge Systems) outlined his thoughts on how to get started with social tools, drawing from his experience of the adoption of blogs and wikis in Clifford Chance. Here is Sam's... read full post
Portrait of a social intranet
During our Insight Event last week, Steve Perry (Head of Knowledge and Business Development Systems) discussed Freshfields' new social intranet and the changing shape of business processes in the firm through the use of social tools. These are my... read full post
links for 2009-09-14
MuslimHeritage.com - Topics (tags: environment science islam) Blogging: The New Public Sphere - One Man and His Blog (tags: blogging publicsphere) Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Change Is A Red Herring (tags: change headshift)... read full post
Role of social software and networks in knowledge management
During our Insight Event last week, Mark Gould of Addleshaw Goddard discussed the changing role of knowledge management in law firms: where it's gone (and in some cases where it's gone a bit astray) and how social computing can rescue... read full post
Social media monitoring - more first step than end game
Prior to the rise of mass production and assembly line processes in the latter half of the 20th century, new products and services were often created in response to a direct conversation between consumers and businesses.If a consumer - they... read full post
links for 2009-09-13
The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness (tags: socialnetworks influence health publichealth) ‘Athens’ on the Net - NYTimes.com (tags: usnow government2.0) Social Business Design. Birth of a new industry? | davaidavai.com (tags: socialbusiness)... read full post
links for 2009-09-12
Using JIRA for Product Management - Atlassian Developer Blog (tags: jira products feedback)... read full post
links for 2009-09-11
London's bridges in war of words on Twitter - Telegraph (tags: things bridges twitter spimes london) Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 4 - Optimizing - The Atlassian Blog (tags: confluence data) Social Business By Design Keynote presentation given at... read full post
What does social business design mean for law firms?
Last week, we hosted a well-attended private event as a follow-up to our "Social Networking for the Legal Profession" report. We were privileged to be joined by three of the contributors to the report, who shared with us and their colleagues in the legal profession some... read full post
links for 2009-09-10
Internet-Manifesto (tags: media journalism) Social business design : Binary Law (tags: headshift legal law socialbusiness events) paulcanning: Lessons from the great 2009 Birmingham City Council website disaster (tags: publicsector birmingham capita procurement fail) The FASTForward Blog » Implementing Enterprise... read full post
links for 2009-09-09
Yahoo!, Paypal, Google, Equifax, AOL, Verisign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo, Wave Systems Pilot Open Identity For Open Government | Information Cards (tags: identity goverment egov openid) Stewart Mader & Thomas Vander Wal to Speak at Enterprise 2.0, San Francisco |... read full post
links for 2009-09-08
Cognitive Edge (tags: evolution exaptation adapatation redundancy networks) Mosomo-health: fighting corruption in local health projects by empowering citizens as mobile social monitors | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org (tags: feedback sms health) Brainstorm, but carefully and only after individual... read full post
links for 2009-09-07
Who is Who: The Cloud and Collaboration (tags: networks)... read full post
links for 2009-09-06
Social networks a premier tool, but what's in it for them? | The Australian IT began with Kevin Rudd, was fine-tuned by Barack Obama - and now the premiers are getting in on the act, turning to the likes... read full post
Lotus Connections 2.5 - in depth review
Lotus Connections 2.5 has finally been released, and with a whole host of features. We've been using Connections 2.5 beta for a while at Headshift, quite often to build stories and user journeys showing the art of the possible with social... read full post
Story of using Lotus Connections
Good to see IBM finally getting into story based marketing! Actually, I wonder if the guy who wrote it is even in marketing?... read full post
links for 2009-09-04
Firerift.com (tags: cms software) Naked man leaps from fourth plinth | thelondonpaper.com (tags: oneandother) Using social media to turn all staff into customer service reps | Tom Foremski: IMHO | ZDNet.com (tags: customerservice socialmedia socialbusiness) Gov 2.0: It’s All... read full post
links for 2009-09-03
Robert Paterson's Weblog: Social Media and Consulting - Headshift and Dachis (tags: headshift socialbusiness) Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 3 - Charts and Formatting - The Atlassian Blog (tags: confluence wiki data dataviz) cybersoc.com: bbc's robert peston: the blog... read full post
We're looking for Rails developers
We're looking for Ruby on Rails developers to join our growing team. You'll need experience in building elegant, innovative and scalable RESTful applications, and ideally have an interest in social software and Web 2.0. Some examples of some of the... read full post
links for 2009-09-02
Social Business Leaps Forward with Dachis Group Acquistion of Headshift « Together, We Can! (tags: headshift dachis socialbusiness) Involve - The US experience of engagement (tags: participation usa involve) Social Networking for the Legal Profession | Compliance Building (tags:... read full post
Power up! Level completed
We are proud to announce that Headshift has joined the Dachis Group to accelerate the next phase of development into a global social business consulting firm read full post
Lessons from the plinth
We are over half-way through the fourth plinth project and it has been quite a ride. We have learned a lot about combining 'social media' with real life and broadcast video, so here are some reflections so far read full post
links for 2009-09-01
Debunking Enterprise 2.0 failure | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com (tags: enterprise adoption) Rebooting Australia? | Centre for Policy Development By Lee Bryant and James Dellow. Can Australia's 20th century governance structures deliver solutions to 21st century problems? (tags:... read full post
Latest comments