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• Posted Confluence User Group review to Blog
  Our Confluence User Group ran yesterday (Tuesday 15th September) at Birkbeck University. Despite the flash flooding in central London, 70 people turned up to hear speakers from Atlassian, Headshift consultants and clients, but more importantly to share stories and experiences...
• Posted Lotus Connections 2.5 - in depth review to Blog
  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...
• Posted Story of using Lotus Connections to Blog
  Good to see IBM finally getting into story based marketing! Actually, I wonder if the guy who wrote it is even in marketing?...
• Posted Confluence User Group - London to Blog
  On Tuesday 15th September 2009 we will be hosting a free of charge Confluence User Group in London. The event will be held at Birkbeck University, 43 Gordon Square, Camden Town, Greater London WC1H, UK, near Euston Square and Russell...
• Commented on Socialtext Signals
  Hey Lee - it depends what you mean by "plug in". There is a widget on the Dashboard that can pull in your Outlook mail, and you can email content directly into the wiki from Outlook (or any other email...
• Posted Socialtext Signals to Blog
  Since I last blogged about Socialtext Desktop and Signals, the guys have done a lot of work on the new features. So much so, they have released an appliance with just the Desktop, Signals and Profiles features - the Socialtext...
• Posted Business 2.0 to Blog
  As organisations become more transparent, more open, more prepared to share we are seeing more and more intellectual capital being given away "free". There is the over-quoted example of Goldmine giving away its geological data, Sun Microsystems and IBM giving...
• Posted Openness, transparency and MP's expenses... to Blog
  The recent MPs expenses saga has shown an interesting case study in common sense vs business processes. When judged by whether or not their expense claims were against the rules or not, hardly any MPs have been found to have...
• Commented on Lotus Connections 2.5 - coming soon
  HI David - thanks for your comment - we're just setting up the 2.5 beta at Headshift so looking forward to digging into more detail!...
• Commented on How to find the people you need
  Jason - by the way, that scenario you mention is exactly the sort of use case profiles support. The international aspect is also interesting, especially if you use profiles to work out who can speak what language!...
• Commented on How to find the people you need
  Hi Jason - this is all possible. My blog post wasn't supposed to be talking about a specific system (although I used Jive as an example) but rather the principles behind using profiles. This could be done in several ways:...
• Commented on How to find the people you need
  Hi Jason - thanks for the comment. We tend to find that the more information can be seeded, the greater the uptake. This is not just true for profiles, but also blogs, discussion forums, documents etc....
• Posted How to find the people you need to Blog
  Rich profiles can be a powerful cornerstone of an Enterprise 2.0 / next generation intranet / social business software solution. Finding people rather than documents can be highly beneficial in terms of productivity, using information rather than looking for it,...
• Posted Sharepoint as an Enterprise 2.0 platform to Blog
  After my recent posts on Jive, Socialtext and Connections, some people have been asking me where I see Sharepoint fitting in. I was planning a long post on it, but having read Thomas Vander Wal's recent post I have nothing...
• Commented on Lotus Connections 2.5 - coming soon
  Thanks Luis - let us know what it's like to use it once it's rolled out!...
• Posted Lotus Connections 2.5 - coming soon to Blog
  As mentioned in my previous post, Lotus Connections is due to receive a significant upgrade in the Summer. It addresses many of the serious functional gaps that have been present up until now (such as lack of wiki functionality) as...
• Posted New features of Socialtext - Signals and Desktop to Blog
  Socialtext have released Socialtext Signals, as well as Socialtext Desktop which I took a look at today. The easiest way to explain Signals is "Twitter for the Enterprise" but Socialtext have added a few features that give it extra...
• Posted Join Headshift at the Social Media Influence Conference to Blog
  Headshift is delighted to be sponsoring this year's Social Media Influence Conference on Tuesday 3rd March at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London. It promises to be an exciting agenda, with speakers from YouTube, SixApart, Microsoft, Sony and LinkedIn, and,...
• Posted Reduce management costs with Enterprise 2.0 to Blog
  I was with a customer the other day who very succinctly described their business motivation for delivering an Enterprise 2.0 intranet. "We're looking to expand, but without increasing management costs".Employees who are efficiently networked don't need management making sure that...
• Posted Integrate Lotus Connections and Confluence to Blog
  Despite Lotus Connections being a great option for organisations looking to deploy a social software platform, it does not include any wiki functionality. This is going to be remedied in a Summer release, but for organisations looking to get started...
• Posted Jive, Lotus Connections and Socialtext to Blog
  Until recently, organisations who wanted to implement social software or "Enterprise 2.0" faced the task of integrating various best of breed components. You might take a wiki, a blog, an enterprise RSS server, and glue them all together. This is...
• Posted Can you find the people you need? to Blog
  One of the more common use cases of Enterprise 2.0 is finding expertise within a large organisation. At Lotusphere last year, a representative from the recently merged Bank of New York / Mellon Financial explained the problem (I'm paraphrasing slightly,...
• Posted Social software ROI to Blog
  A few weeks ago I was in Zurich presenting at Somesso. Part of my talk was around ROI where I had the opportunity to speak about why ROI is so difficult for social software.First, it's always worth checking whether or not...
• Commented on Why bother with social software?
  Thanks Salv - that's a great comment. Larry Hawes blogged recently about how organisations that don't value collaboration will never be swayed by a business case, and those that do won't need one (http://lehawes.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/culture-trumps-roi/) When I talk about "Social Networking"...
• Posted Why bother with social software? to Blog
  Does social software really add value?  Does an Enterprise 2.0 ROI actually exist?  How would you measure it?  Is it just for time wasters (like email, the internet, instant messaging etc.).  During a credit crunch surely employees could be performing...
• Posted Cost of social software to Blog
  One of the strongest arguments around adopting social software is that you can do so easily and at very low cost when compared with 'traditional' IT solutions. Given today's economic volatility and frozen IT budgets it may make sense to...
• Posted Social software - the basics to Blog
  Sometimes you spend so much time thinking about things you over-complicate. Enterprise 2.0 can be very simple  Do you believe that there is business value in who you know as well as what you know?Do you believe that a strong...
• Posted Joining Headshift to Blog
  I've finally got my blog up and running at Headshift.  Am really looking forward to working with the Enterprise team and the last few weeks have been fantastic.I'm going to be mainly cross-posting some of the content at http://jonmell.co.uk - but hopefully...