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Sharing our thinking in the open is a great way to learn from our network and peers, and we love to discuss social business on our blog or during one of the many conferences we attend around the world.

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Archive for October 2008

links for 2008-10-25

Nathan @ e-gineer: Jitter: Experimenting with microblogging in the enterprise "In February 2008, Janssen-Cilag Australia & New Zealand launched an internal microblogging platform called Jitter. Combined with our intranet's people search capabilities, this formed an interesting enterprise hybrid of Facebook & Twitter style capabilities. This People Search with Jitter solution received Highly Commended in the… read full post

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More than just a website

One of the things that we try and emphasise when talking to clients is that a website is much more than it first appears. It’s better to think of a site as an application in its own right, in the same way as you’d think of a web browser, or an inventory management system, or… read full post

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links for 2008-10-24

NHS needs to catch up on technology • The Register (tags: nhs uk health it) *All* Russian Schools to Use Free Software – Blogs – ComputerworldUK blogs – The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple iPhone, Global warming, MySQL, Open Enterprise I've often lamented how few schools in the UK use… read full post

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links for 2008-10-23

cybersoc.com: on today and world update this morning (tags: headshift blogging bbc) FT.com / Business Life / Management – Ready for Downturn 2.0 (tags: bubble) Phil Gyford: Stopping Movable Type from truncating long templates (tags: movabletype howto) The Futility of Bottling Knowledge (tags: km knowledge networks flow) niche online social netowrks | DigitalMarketingLab (tags: headshift… read full post

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IT that learns

Yesterday, I mentioned how Cleary Gottlieb had borrowed knowledge engineering techniques from the military, to capture the expertise of senior staff, embed it in a computer system and pass it on to junior lawyers online, in the form of intelligent online textbooks and knowledge maps. But I was left wondering about the system’s interactivity, intelligence,… read full post

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links for 2008-10-22

Brian Prentice — A member of the Gartner Blog Network (tags: headshift gartner consulting) iKnow Is A Social Learning Platform That Can Really Make You Smarter. Opens API. (tags: LEARNING WEB2.0 API) Branded iPhone Apps From NewsGator | Venture Chronicles (tags: iphone rss newsgator feeds) Is The Economic Crisis Affecting European Startups At All? (tags:… read full post

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Did twitter kill the blogging star?

In an opinion piece for Wired, Valleywag’s Paul Boutin makes the rather tenuous assertion that blogging is dead. He writes, “Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug. Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago.The blogosphere, once… read full post

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Innovative Lawyers

The Financial Times collates and commends a variety law firm ‘innovations’ in its latest annual report on “Innovative Lawyers”.  But ‘innovation’ is now being used so loosely and frequently that it seems any old initiative is tagged as ‘innovative’.  So what is ‘innovation’ and how do firms generate it?   Peter Drucker succinctly described ‘innovation’… read full post

Categories Legal and Professional Services

links for 2008-10-21

Paperless on Flickr – Photo Sharing! (tags: headshift printers fail) Social melting pots foster technological innovation – tech – 14 October 2008 – New Scientist Tech (tags: socialnetworking innovation city) Macy conferences – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via Preoccupations (tags: interdisciplinary research socialdynamics history) oxford internet institute | webcast | Social Networking Conference (tags: research… read full post

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Pointy-haired, or fluffy?

A few posts ago I mentioned some models of human motivation that might help answer the question, “why would anyone bother contributing to social media?” The best known model is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, but as several commenters pointed out, it’s a pretty simplistic model that doesn’t really stand up to much close scrutiny. There’s… read full post

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