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Recent case studies

The Big Green Challenge

A NESTA initiative, the Big Green Challenge is a competition designed to encourage and reward those who work together towards developing and implementing new approaches to CO2 emission reductions. The finalists compete for a prize fund of £1 million to help finance the development and exploitation of the most promising innovative ideas. The competition attracted… read full post

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Metrotwin (British Airways)

British Airways’ Metrotwin, created in partnership with Agency.com, BBH and Made by Many, is a community platform for BA customers living in and frequently traveling between London and New York. By allowing people to “twin” neighborhoods, businesses and attractions Metrotwin looks to create a single social recommendation engine for both cities -  a place to… read full post

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Using a wiki platform, global law firm Freshfields made it easy to create and maintain sites on their intranet. The sites are devoted to a specific subject such as a specialty within a practice or information about key clients. Headshift helped the firm explore how to broaden the participation in providing intranet content and how… read full post

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BBC Blogs Network

BBC Blog Network – from consulting to final implementationOver the last two years Headshift has provided strategic and technical consulting, information architecture, design and implementation services for the complete re-launch of the BBC’s public blog network – one of the largest on the web. The process has gone through severalstages and we are currently completing… read full post

Categories Media and Publishing, Movable Type, Sector, Technology Tags ,

Demos – Think Tank

Headshift transformed Demos’ former one-way information hub into a transparent collaborative network to engage the think tank’s target audience, as well as Demos employees. Creating Interaction and DiscussionBy developing a tool for project collaboration, ideas dissemination and relationship building, Headshift helped Demos reflect their core brand values of ‘interaction and discussion’.In doing so, the research… read full post

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Involve – People and Participation

Headshift built a wiki based publishing platform for Involve to easily update their research, case studies and methodology in the area of public participation. The platform introduced interactive functionality to the findings and also implemented a collaborative approach to their research and case study gathering process. The platform leveraged the knowledge base of interested communities… read full post

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Legal Division – International Investment Bank

With the high levels of innovation and complexity in banking products, our client wanted to ensure that people involved in the negotiation and implementation of associated transactions could stay abreast of change and be better connected with relevant expertise and information.  In that context, we have been working in a consultancy capacity with members of… read full post

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Leading British Museum

Headshift implemented a wiki-based intranet for one of Britain’s leading museums. Responding to the need for a lightweight solution, the new intranet allows for easy publishing and simpler and more personal collaboration tools, such as wikis, blogs, social tagging and bookmarking. Easy publishing The solution comprises easy, version-controlled publishing of departmental and corporate info, images… read full post

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Major UK Publisher

The wiki for this UK publisher is a platform designed to support the work of editors, PR specialists and innovators inside and across departments around new product ideas, innovations and market intelligence. An increased need to share ideas With the wiki we responded to the increased internal need to be able to brainstorm and share… read full post

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