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Felix Cohen
Felix Cohen is a technical consultant at Headshift, working in our social media team. He is a strong advocate for, and user of, free and open source tools. Prior to joining us, he worked at leading politics website openDemocracy.net as Director of Technology. He studied psychology at Bath University, producing a dissertation on the motivation of open source developers that was widely circulated within the community.
His interests are community building and formation online, especially with regards to volunteer and expert communities, and has been involved in the design, development and maintenance of wiki's, blogs and community sites in the CSR, international politics and media areas. He has also written extensively on issues around copyright, community, network technologies and the politics of design, both for openDemocracy and on a number of blogs.
When he can break free of the command line, he enjoys surfing, skateboarding and climbing, as well as occasionally making guest appearances behind various cocktail bars.
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Commented on Social Media, Customer service and the 9-5 problem
Thanks Rich, I had a feeling that someone was ending up being duty-bound to man the Twitters out of hours; I just hope you never had to respond to any of my angry train related tweets! I'm interested to hear...
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Posted Social Media, Customer service and the 9-5 problem to Blog
I've just finished listening to the fantastic Smodcast for Kevin Smith about his experiences with South West Airlines, which comes fresh on the tail of last weeks twitter furore over Paperchase using possibly plagiarised designs. Now, I don't want to...
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Commented on The structured vs. unstructured data dilemma
This isn't a 'quantum' problem; it's a matter of finding good heuristics for analysing the data. Connectivity speeds and storage speeds aren't the limiting factor in this, the algorithms for doing pattern analysis lack sufficient rigour now, with both people...
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Commented on The structured vs. unstructured data dilemma
Lee, the problem with a big Oracle data silo like this is that you're still trapped in a relational database system for querying the data. Certainly Oracle databases support more BI discovery tools and mechanisms, but they don't allow the...
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Commented on Smaller, smarter solutions for charities and non-profits
Dan, Following on from my comment; you might want to take a look at this: http://drupal.org/project/fbconnect...
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Commented on Smaller, smarter solutions for charities and non-profits
"The current contenders see to be openID, facebook connect, google friend connect or open social. Which would you see as the most useful tool?" The difficulty with these four services is that they are really quite different. OpenID is a...
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Posted Smaller, smarter solutions for charities and non-profits to Blog
Some thoughts on how single-issue-groups, charities and membership organisations can use the collective knowledge and passions of their supporters in much more creative and accessible ways using simple open source tools.
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