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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 January 2010

links for 2010-01-31

KC Collaboration Perspectives (tags: collaboration) Starting our E20 research activities (tags: europe research enterprise) Trends in the Personal Enterprise: App Stores « Dachis Group Collaboratory | Social Business Design (tags: enterprise appstore distribution)

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links for 2010-01-29

Lotus bets the house on open collaboration plan (tags: ibm socialsoftware) Yammering away at the office | The Economist From a special report on social networking: "most companies are deeply uncomfortable with the notion of baring all to such a wide public… This has generated interest in Enterprise 2.0 networks tailor-made for the corporate world…. read full post

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Learning about social media through experimentation

Yesterday, during lunch, I went out and took some photos of the area around Headshift’s London headquarters in Shad Thames, just east of the south end of Tower Bridge. When I uploaded them to Flickr, I added notes to each photo, linking the images to create a sort of interactive tour of the area and… read full post

Categories Media and Publishing

links for 2010-01-28

Government to set up its own cloud computing system | Technology | guardian.co.uk (tags: gov egov government cloud uk) Practical Social Media Measurement: Leads, Conversions, Sales | Brand Elevation Through Social Media and Social Business | Altitude Branding (tags: socialmedia measurement) Free Publicity: Who do we help? – Anil Dash (tags: politics technology usa) Mobile… read full post

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Aggregation is an opportunity for content providers

The Daily Mirror has joined a growing number of newspapers who block a news aggregator, NewsNow, from crawling it’s site. The Sun and Times Online had already made similar moves. Having worked in the media industry myself for nearly ten years, I understand why, on the face of things, content providers see aggregators as a… read full post

Categories Media and Publishing

Blogging on the firm’s public website

People shaking hands, impressive office buildings, smiling people looking at a computer screen, water in motion, shiny buildings in Canary Wharf… We have become so used to stock photography on law firm websites that we hardly notice it anymore. If the photos don’t relate to your business they don’t provide any insight to who you… read full post

Categories Legal and Professional Services

The structured vs. unstructured data dilemma

One of the first things you learn at university in your first year of computer science is data normalisation. I don’t know about the other people out there, but I found it such an utterly boring course. Mankind has such an obsession with categorising every single piece of data that this behaviour is crammed into… read full post

Categories Enterprise, Future Trends, Workforce Collaboration

links for 2010-01-27

Gnip – Delivering the Web's Data (tags: data twitter firehose aggregator) Labour: Change we see but you can't photograph – Telegraph Blogs (tags: socialmedia politics uk)

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links for 2010-01-26

Case Study: Managing Risk in Regulated Industries « Dachis Group Collaboratory | Social Business Design (tags: dachis regulation socialmedia casestudies) Conference Social Networking Made Simple with The Social Collective – Customers (tags: software events conferences) Three To-Do's (And To-Don'ts) of 21st Century Strategy – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review (tags: c21 future) Robert Paterson's… read full post

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Driving traffic to your blog with twitter

Posting links to twitter can drive significant traffic to websites. I recently wrote a comprehensive post aimed at helping organisations and businesses get started blogging. I knew it would be of interest to a lot of people, so when I was done writing the post, I logged into bit.ly, a url shortening service, and tweeted… read full post

Categories Customer Participation, Media and Publishing