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Headshift at PR Newswire's Meet the Media
PR and media professionals have, until recently, been able to leverage their control over, or access to, scarce communication channels to ensure that the messages which flowed over them spread outwardly, in a one-way trajectory.Social media, which gives just about... read full post
Headshift in public mission to NYC
As some of you may have already heard, Headshift has been selected among other 20 British SMEs to attend the Digital Mission to the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC organised by Chinwag for UK Trade & Investment. The Mission takes... read full post
Social Innovation: how do we find the right problems?
2gether is the latest in a sequence of London events to promote social innovation that provide a welcome stimulus for the public sector and social enterprises; but do they work? read full post
Web 2.0 Strategies 2008
During yesterday's Web 2.0 Strategies 2008 in London, speakers from a range of industry sectors traversed fairly well-worn, yet nevertheless interesting, issues associated with the adoption of social tools within businesses to improve operations and externally to encourage better connections... read full post
Social Media Influence Conference - June 4, 2008
Social media Influence looks like being one of the better London-based events this year read full post
Six Go Mad On The Eurostar
This week a group of six of us from Headshift Centrale took a trip to Geneva for the LIFT08 conference. Tom Taylor was presenting about some of the climate change-related projects that we've worked on (you can see his awesome... read full post
Taking the Headshift Lift Express
Taking the Headshift LIFT train to Geneva read full post
Want £1m for your bright green ideas?
At Headshift we like to think that we're doing what we can to combat climate change, and we've taken some practical steps - our water coolers have disappeared, to be replaced by filter jugs; and rather than petrol-guzzling Mercedes taxis... read full post
Social tools for Internal Communications
Participants at a recent Melcrum European seminar on social tools for internal communications came up with some useful insights into the use cases for social software and the barriers and chellanges for deployment read full post
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
In the 1500s copyright was easy to manage if you controlled printing. For a few hundred years, The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers did exactly that. The organisation dates back to 1403 and some of the principles of... read full post
Learning to learn & collaborate online - Microlearning2007
Back from Microlearning2007 in Innsbruck, Austria, an interesting, exploratory conference about microcontents, web 2.0 tools and learning. The conference really confirmed that different and new behaviours and processes with regard to learning, collaborating and communicating in the work place, schools... read full post
What other conferences can learn from Reboot
Maybe I am getting jaded, but I am more and more conscious of a gulf in quality between events like Reboot and LIFT on the European circuit and UK business-focused conferences. Herewith, some observations on what we could do better. read full post
UP Fing
I'm heading towards UP Fing, the annual conference organised by the Internet New Generation Federation (FING), that takes place in La Baume near Aix en Provence. FING is a national association that deals in new technologies and has gained respect... read full post
Blogging 4 Business redux
Notes from the Headshift/SixApart session at the Blogging for Business conference in London on April 4, 2007 read full post
Specialised Information Publishers meet Web 2.0
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of addressing a group of members of SIPA - the Specialised Information Publishers Association, and giving a general introduction to Web 2.0. A broad subject with a lot of things to talk about, and... read full post
