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• Posted Wikipatterns: the book to Blog
  Wikipatterns.com, a site that Headshift is happy to have helped design and customise, "is a toolbox of patterns & anti-patterns, and a guide to the stages of wiki adoption".Stewart Mader is the person behind the site and the author of...
• Commented on Getting over my context collapse
  Welcome to the world of blogging, Eliot. And, just to freak you out a bit... look, I have already been talking about your post and, to make it worse, in Portuguese :-)...
• Posted Preserving traditional remedies to Blog
  We are all natural storytellers. That is how we communicate what we have done, what we have learned, what we have seen. That is how we communicate our feelings, values and thoughts. That is how we imagine the future.Internally, organisations...
• Posted SHiFT'08 to About
  SHiFT is back in Lisbon, Portugal. It promises three days of exciting workshops and presentations devoted to Transient Technologies, " in the sense that technology is breaking up with it's digital bouderies and it's becoming a vital part of a...
• Posted Social tools "by the people for the people" to Blog
  The UK Catalyst Awards were created to recognise "inspiring stories of people who help their community by using social technology in new and exciting ways". There are 10 awards up for grabs, each one focusing on a slightly different...
• Posted KM Brasil 2008 to About
  Ana Neves will be presenting at KM Brasil 2008 in August.
• Posted Offline social spaces to Blog
  The Urban Beach project opened an artificial beach in the middle of Bristol. The idea behind this and other initiatives of the Cities Programme at Demos is that people need new, different places to socialise. The cafe-culture, they believe, is...
• Posted Innovation Exchange to be delivered by consortium to Blog
  Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, today announced that a consortium including The Innovation Unit, ACEVO and Headshift has won the £1.2 million contract to deliver the new Innovation Exchange pilot - a programme to support the third sector's...
• Posted Twitter as an enabler to trust-based relationships to Blog
  When Twitter was launched it received a lot of bad press due to its apparent futility. As more and more people are subscribing to this social site, and people have had more time to experiment, they are questioning their initial...
• Posted Little brother is watching you to Blog
  The other day I was discussing with a colleague from a public sector organisation about whether it should be easy for users of a social system to see content produced by other users they choose to include in their personal...
• Posted Books as social constructions to Blog
  After reflecting last month on the future of newspapers some events made me think about the future of books as well. A couple of weeks ago I finished reading "Engines for Education" by Roger C. Schank and Chip Cleary (click...
• Posted Customer communities' impact on revenue to Blog
  René Algesheimer (Universitat Zurich) and Prof. Paul Dholokia (Rice University) have studied the behaviour of eBay customers who belong to the online customer community, comparing them with other eBay customers who don't. The full report is 46 pages long but...
• Posted What leads a social tool to success? to Blog
  How many blogs are out there? Almost 150 million, Gartner predicted. How many wikis are available to the public? Loads. However, when you think in terms of the activity that goes down on this sites, figures are not as high...
• Posted Jakob Nielsen Loves Enterprise 2.0 with a Purpose to Blog
  Jakob Nielsen has issued his view on the 10 Best Intranets of 2007. The full report is quite pricey but the summary is available for free and offers a peep over what is currently being the focus of the very...
• Posted Social Networking Websites and Teens: and the survey says... to Blog
  The Pew Internet Project, a non-partisan, non-profit research centre that examines the social impact of the internet, has recently published the results of a survey on the habits of American teens regarding social networking sites. The study reveals that 55%...
• Posted News... papers? to Blog
  In 1994, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid wrote that the three advantages for paper-based newspapers were: a) the determination of what is news as only a certain amount of information will fit within the paper limits; b) the layout...