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January 2010 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2010-01-31
KC Collaboration Perspectives (tags: collaboration) Starting our E20 research activities (tags: europe research enterprise) Trends in the Personal Enterprise: App Stores « Dachis Group Collaboratory | Social Business Design (tags: enterprise appstore distribution)... read full post
links for 2010-01-29
Lotus bets the house on open collaboration plan (tags: ibm socialsoftware) Yammering away at the office | The Economist From a special report on social networking: "most companies are deeply uncomfortable with the notion of baring all to such... read full post
Learning about social media through experimentation
Yesterday, during lunch, I went out and took some photos of the area around Headshift's London headquarters in Shad Thames, just east of the south end of Tower Bridge. When I uploaded them to Flickr, I added notes to each... read full post
links for 2010-01-28
Government to set up its own cloud computing system | Technology | guardian.co.uk (tags: gov egov government cloud uk) Practical Social Media Measurement: Leads, Conversions, Sales | Brand Elevation Through Social Media and Social Business | Altitude Branding (tags:... read full post
Aggregation is an opportunity for content providers
The Daily Mirror has joined a growing number of newspapers who block a news aggregator, NewsNow, from crawling it's site. The Sun and Times Online had already made similar moves.Having worked in the media industry myself for nearly ten years,... read full post
Blogging on the firm's public website
People shaking hands, impressive office buildings, smiling people looking at a computer screen, water in motion, shiny buildings in Canary Wharf... We have become so used to stock photography on law firm websites that we hardly notice it anymore.If the... read full post
The structured vs. unstructured data dilemma
One of the first things you learn at university in your first year of computer science is data normalisation. I don't know about the other people out there, but I found it such an utterly boring course. Mankind has such... read full post
links for 2010-01-27
Gnip - Delivering the Web's Data (tags: data twitter firehose aggregator) Labour: Change we see but you can't photograph – Telegraph Blogs (tags: socialmedia politics uk)... read full post
links for 2010-01-26
Case Study: Managing Risk in Regulated Industries « Dachis Group Collaboratory | Social Business Design (tags: dachis regulation socialmedia casestudies) Conference Social Networking Made Simple with The Social Collective – Customers (tags: software events conferences) Three To-Do's (And To-Don'ts)... read full post
Driving traffic to your blog with twitter
Posting links to twitter can drive significant traffic to websites. I recently wrote a comprehensive post aimed at helping organisations and businesses get started blogging. I knew it would be of interest to a lot of people, so when I... read full post
Receptionist / Admin Assistant
Headshift needs an experienced receptionist looking to be challenged; someone willing and happy to do both the basic things that help an office run smoothly for everyone and the more advanced work of an administrative assistant.As our first point of... read full post
links for 2010-01-25
Don't quote social network comments verbatim - The Future Place Blog (tags: anthropology ethnography ethics socialnetworking)... read full post
Connections and Confluence working together
As social tools become mainstream within organisations, inevitably businesses and users and going to have to deal with multiple platforms. A classic example would be the co-existance of a niche tool (such as a blog or wiki application) with a... read full post
How to sell Social Media in your organisation
Why don't they understand that social media can help us working more efficiently? Those stupid corporate drones! I want to get it more widespread in the organisation but every time I hit this frustrating wall! Sounds familiar? It's a frustration... read full post
links for 2010-01-24
Thoughts on Internal Social Networking – LocalGovCamp « Carl's Notepad (tags: casestudies bluekiwi localgovernment) UKGC10 round-up by Michele Ide-Smith (tags: ukgc10 gov egov events)... read full post
links for 2010-01-23
How Registration Forms are Killing B2B Software Marketing - B2B Technology MarCom Blog - B2B Technology Marketing PR Agency,Tech Marketing Firm: MarCom Ink (tags: usability marketing registration) UK.gov stacking up gang of clouds • The Register (tags: cloud computing government... read full post
links for 2010-01-22
BBC News - Museum explores 'hidden history' of Muslim science (tags: muslimheritage sciencemuseum) Social Media Today | Applying the US Fourth Amendment to data in the cloud (tags: law legal cloud data) A Better Way to Manage Knowledge -... read full post
links for 2010-01-21
NewsGator Company Info - Press Archive (tags: newsgator rss community government enterprise software) The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com (tags: socialcomputing enterprise technology) BBC News - Tim... read full post
Representing "Social", Prioritising Design and the I-word
A few of us went to see Christain Crumlish talk about the Yahoo! Design Pattern library yesterday after work - It was an interesting evening with much to chew on. I wanted to talk briefly about it and what I took from it. read full post
links for 2010-01-20
Review of Enterprise 2.0 (tags: enterprise e20 books) Using Enterprise 2.0 to prepare for recovery (part II) | The Whatever Blog (tags: enterprise socialcomputing) The Social Enterprise begets the Ultimate Meritocracy | Pretzel Logic - Enterprise 2.0 (tags: enterprise... read full post
Taking Social Business on the Road
Here are some of the key events for 2010, where we will try to talk to as many people as possible to challenge our ideas, test our hypotheses and fill the gaps in our thinking around social business design. read full post
links for 2010-01-19
Transparency Breeds Self-Correcting Behavior | GOVERNING (tags: transparency government egov) The benefits of blogging (tags: blogs blogging government egov) Corner Office - Structure? The Flatter the Better, says Cristóbal Conde - Question - NYTimes.com Interview with Cristóbal Conde, president... read full post
links for 2010-01-18
4iP | Facebook link up with 4 The People (tags: 4ip crowdsourcing egov government) How to crowd source an IT strategy - BankerVision (tags: it strategy crowdsourcing)... read full post
SharePoint 2010 - Bringing the Social back into the Enterprise
Let's be honest with each other, Microsoft's SharePoint 2007 isn't the best kid in class with respect to being an Enterprise 2.0 or social media platform. Although the dedicated Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Social Computing website boasts the enterprise social... read full post
links for 2010-01-17
http://chieftech.com.au/social-business-design-coaction-as-an-impelli (tags: socialbusiness coaction collaboration) Stilgherrian · Time to dump 20th Century “leadership”? "Do we really think we can just bolt some sort of “government 2.0 module” onto steam-era bureaucracies and magically bring them into the 21st Century" (tags:... read full post
links for 2010-01-15
12 Practical Business Lessons From Social Psychology | Business Pundit (tags: psychology behaviour) Ideal Government » Blog Archive » Time to say what we want from government IT (tags: government egov it) Sinking and swimming: understanding Britain's unmet needs... read full post
Social tools for internal communications
This year is all about a practical focus on mainstreaming social tools inside the firewall, and here are a couple of events to get you started read full post
How to get started blogging
I'm frequently asked, by our clients as well as the MA Journalism students I occasionally teach as part of my role as a Visiting Journalism Fellow at City University, for tips on how to get started blogging. As someone who... read full post
links for 2010-01-14
Plinther ready for world stage | News (tags: oneandother plinth activism) SEEK pulls Mass Effect 2 viral marketing campaign job ad - Computerworld Online employment site, SEEK, pulled a viral marketing ad for upcoming video game Mass Effect 2... read full post
Data ubiquity threatening usefulness of Enterprise 2.0
(This blog post is co-written with Nigel Walsh from the Enterprise Mashups vendor Corizon and started over a bowl of porridge.) "Content and data are everywhere. People are creating and curating content like never before. As data storage becomes cheaper,... read full post
links for 2010-01-13
Coke drops campaign sites in favour of social media | News | New Media Age (tags: coke unilever marketing community) The Guerrilla Consultant (tags: consulting clients respect behaviour) The False Question Of Attention Economics - /Message (tags: attention) russell... read full post
links for 2010-01-12
Fever° Red hot. Well read. (tags: rss attention) (Case Study) Powerhouse Museum exhibits prowess with JIRA and Confluence - Atlassian News The Powerhouse Museum, based in Sydney, Australia - also known as the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.... read full post
links for 2010-01-11
The FASTForward Blog » Can an organization not be ‘ready’ for Enterprise 2.0?: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary (tags: enterprise adoption) The Mutsinzi Report | Kigali Wire (tags: africa rwanda genocide) Africa Knows | To tell a different story... read full post
Announcing the Social Business Summit, Europe: London, March 18, 2010
On March 18, SOMESSO and Headshift/Dachis Group will host Europe's first Social Business Summit; an invitation-only event in the city of London, which is aimed at business and technology thought leaders interested in the future of social business design. read full post
links for 2010-01-07
Little platoons online | The Spectator (tags: politics uk government bureaucracy) The Future of Decision Making: Less Intuition, More Evidence - Andrew McAfee - Harvard Business Review (tags: ituition judgement decisions) Global CIO: Suicide Strategy For CIOs: Aligning IT... read full post
Tumblr: getting interaction right
Tumblr is a fascinating example of how to get user generated and community sites right. Fundamentally it's a microblogging platform, but I think this sells it very short of the whole picture. It's succeeding by taking the interaction patterns that... read full post
links for 2010-01-06
ongoing · Doing It Wrong (tags: management it projectmanagement) Why Going Social Can Make or Break the Automotive Industry | Innovations in Creativity | Fast Company (tags: socialmedia customerservice cars) 5 Reasons Why RSS Readers Still Rock (tags: rss... read full post
Confluence 3.1 drag and drop
Confluence 3.1 has been released with the following new features: Gadgets Drag-and-Drop Office 2007 Support New 'Move Page' Feature Enhanced Image Browser Draft Comparisons Page Restrictions Dialog Box Other Editor Enhancements New Web Browser Versions SupportedDrag and drop is one... read full post
links for 2010-01-05
FT.com | Westminster Blog | The Steve Hilton Strategy Bulletins (tags: politics uk) Let's Move Away From Social Media and Get Down to Business (tags: socialbusiness dachis enterprise) NESTA Connect: Human Scale Organisations (tags: organisations human management) The FASTForward... read full post
links for 2010-01-04
The Evolution of Social Media and Business | Brian Solis (tags: socialmedia adoption research stats) Ideal Government » Blog Archive » Tories announce £1m competition for large-scale crowdsourcing platform (tags: politics uk government crowdsourcing) The Personal Enterprise | Socialwrite.com... read full post
links for 2010-01-02
Enterprise OpenSocial Whitepaper - OpenSocial (tags: opensocial widgets standards enterprise) The Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce Teaches Us A Lesson (tags: australia headshift egov gov government)... read full post
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