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• Posted Turning internal communications upside-down to Headshift USA
  Recently I had the opportunity to present one of our case studies at the Social Media for Business Meetup Group in NYC. It was the inaugural meetup, which I am co-organizing together with Daniel Leslie from Reflexions Data. At the...
• Posted Headshift's first NYC Breakfast Seminar - A Retrospective to Blog
  Recently, Headshift co-hosted its first NYC breakfast seminar on enterprise social computing at the Penn Club of New York. At first sight, talking about innovative social tools and their impact to transform businesses in such a traditional setting seems rather...
• Posted From the Local Village to the Global Village and back to Blog
  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...
• Commented on Web X.0 and counting
  Hi Mike, W|A is not trying to be Google. Rather than presenting you a list of possible hits based on your search term, W|A tries to find answers to your query. Instead of being a search engine, it wants to...
• Posted Headshift NYC presenting at 'Social Media for Business' Meetup to Headshift USA
  Together with Daniel Leslie from Reflexions Data I am co-organizing the newly founded 'Social Media for Business' meetup group in NYC. The idea is to talk less about all those shiny tools that are constantly popping up on the Internet,...
• Posted Web X.0 and counting to Headshift USA
  This week I attended the Web 3.0 Conference in New York thanks to a ticket I won from Centernetworks. Even though I work in fields that are named Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Government 2.0 and what not, it is always...
• Posted NYC Seminar on 'How to Use Enterprise Social Software to Flourish in the Recession' to Blog
  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.
• Posted Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared? Part 3 / 3 to Blog
  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...
• Posted Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared? Part 2 / 3 to Blog
  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...
• Posted Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared? Part 1 / 3 to Blog
  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...
• Posted Newsgator publishes whitepaper on ROI for enterprise social tools to Blog
  Last week, Newsgator, a software company primarily known for its family of RSS feed readers, released a whitepaper on how to make a business case for enterprise social tools. The ROI question has been haunting E20 evangelists since the very...
• Commented on A visit to the R&D department of the New York Times
  Since pictures are more worth than a thousand words, you should definitely check out this video with Nick Bilton from the NY Times R&D lab....
• Commented on A visit to the R&D department of the New York Times
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• Posted A visit to the R&D department of the New York Times to Blog
  Recently I was fortunate enough to visit the Research and Development department of the New York Times thanks to the kind invitation of the people of Agency.com that I am working with here in NY. For many people the Gray...
• Posted Manage, and you might survive. Facilitate, and you will thrive. to Blog
  Recently I went to see an organization, and a good while into a very pleasant conversation I was asked: 'Will we (organization) become obsolete in ten years'? What a daunting question! What had happened? The organization has about 1000 member...
• Commented on Is the concept of microblogging scalable?
  Carlo, it's true that 3rd party applications are building a social layer on top of Twitter giving end-users the choice on how they access the underlying infrastructure. Features are different but concepts are the same (e.g. friends stream, @messages, DM,...
• Commented on What do you want to see at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this year?
  this topic seems to have been on many people's agenda, as it was voted #1 by the community. http://enterprise2blog.com/2009/02/top-sessions-from-enterprise-20-conference-call-for-papers/...
• Posted Attending Mobile Tech 4 Social Change in NYC - 21 Feb 2009 to Blog
  I will be attending Mobile Tech 4 Social Change in NYC tomorrow. As the invitation states it's all about how mobile phones are changing the way we organize, advocate, provide health and other social services -- in short, make the...
• Posted Is the concept of microblogging scalable? to Blog
  It seems that there are only two topics people talk about these days . One is the economic turmoil and the other is the microblogging service Twitter. While there is unanimous consent that we are facing one of the worst...
• Commented on Should knowledge retention be high on organizations' agenda?
  You are raising very valid points, especially the one regarding Gen Y's attitude of challenging status quo. I agree on that, but to be fair you need to know status quo first before you can actually change it. I also...
• Commented on Should knowledge retention be high on organizations' agenda?
  I would think that younger generations joining an organization would be very eager to absorb all the information they can get a hand on. I don't think there is a lack of interest in interacting with the older generation (at...
• Posted Edutainment and competition make the world go round to Blog
  The New York Times published an article today on how utilities turn their customers green. For years and years the Sacramento Municipal Utility District had tried to push people to using less energy by offering for example rebates for energy-saving...
• Posted LegalTech NYC, 2009 to About
  Headshift will be attending LegalTech NYC in February 2009.
• Commented on Should knowledge retention be high on organizations' agenda?
  Thanks, Mary. It actually wasn't my intention to come up with a job description for knowledge managers. The term 'knowledge manager' is kind of an oxymoron anyway. It is a fact that it is very difficult to manage intangible assets,...
• Posted Should knowledge retention be high on organizations' agenda? to Blog
  Yesterday I stumbled across a post by Gordon Ross of Thoughtfarmer talking about a client where 50% of its staff is eligible to retire in the next eight years. What a massive brain drain! But we don't even have to...
• Commented on Headshift USA! All Go!!
  Hi Ben, the last revision of the blog post was about 10am (GMT) / 5am (EST) this morning. That's quite an early time to submit a comment if you are based in NYC. Again, I think it's down to a...
• Commented on Headshift USA! All Go!!
  Hi Ben, many thanks for your comment. I'm surprised you didn't see the credits to ACOM, BBH, and MxM, all of which are clearly mentioned with links to their respective sites. The post has gone through a couple of versions,...
• Commented on Headshift USA! All Go!!
  Thanks for your words, Larry! I agree, that now *is* the time, and not only because of the economic downturn. Organisations that have treated social software projects as a pure technical implementation are not getting the benefits they hoped to...
• Posted Headshift USA! All Go!! to Blog
  As of November 11 Headshift becomes even more international. After having opened offices in Paris, Sydney and Zurich we are now officially setting foot on American soil and will establish a presence in New York. New York was our primary...
• Posted Headshift in public mission to NYC to Blog
  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...