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• Commented on Webinar: Designing for Adoption - Friday 23rd Oct @ 9am (Sydney time)
  In other time zones: 23:00 London 00:00 Paris 18:00 New York 15:00 San Francisco 02:00 Dubai...
• Commented on What use is Social Media to the Pharmaceutical Industry?
  Interesting arguments raised by John Pugh. It strikes me that if you build a community around a molecule (pharma company thinking) then you are running a big risk but if you are building a community around an illness or symptoms...
• Posted How are you preparing for the boom? to Blog
  The cycle of boom and bust is a part of the market system. Bust follows boom, boom follows bust. (The timing varies and that's the tricky bit.) How are you and your organisation preparing for the boom?
• Posted Atlassian offer this week: Five users for $5 to Blog
  On 20 April 2009, Atlassian announced a special offer: 5-user JIRA and Confluence licenses for only $5. This campaign will run for only 5 days.
• Commented on Edutainment and competition make the world go round
  In this case, peer pressure becomes "peer encouragement"...
• Posted Wikipedia as an inspiration for internal use of wikis to Blog
  Should organisations using or considering wikis take note as Wikipedia debates a change to their moderation policy?
• Posted Real-world examples of social tools in law firms to Blog
  A seminar at Headshift's London offices will showcase the use of RSS and wikis in law firms. Happening Thursday morning on 24 September 2008 at 8.30.
• Posted London social software dinner with Ross Mayfield to Blog
  Ross Mayfield, social software visionary and co-founder of Socialtext, is in London this week. Join Ross and Headshift for a social software discussion over drinks and dinner on Thursday 8 May 2008. Details are: * Pre-dinner drink and gathering at...
• Posted Big companies use the cloud to innovate to Blog
  Photo sharing service SmugMug received much attention when they published their business case for using Amazon's S3 storage service. The 2002 startup describes how the service saves them between half a million to a million USD per year. At Headshift,...
• Posted Beyond recent changes: Socialtext 3.0 to Blog
  Socialtext has announced version 3.0 of their wiki platform. Two major new features are personal dashboards and dynamic people profiles. These are examples of how consumer internet technology continues to migrate to the enterprise and both help bring the promise...
• Posted 100 Big Green Challengers announced to Blog
  Today, NESTA announced the next stage of the Big Green Challenge competition. From the pool of 359 entrants, 100 competitors were selected. The 100 will supply more details about their projects for the judges to peruse. Ten of the projects...
• Posted Information networking is social too to Blog
  If social networking was called information networking it might be seen as being more relevant to business. Social networking is going through the normal cycle of suspicions and bans before it gets accepted as a useful business tool.
• Posted Your intranet on a wiki to Blog
  Earlier this year I wrote about the benefits of using a wiki instead of a traditional intranet. A few months later Headshift helped a client build an intranet based on a wiki platform and I wanted to share what we...
• Posted The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers to Blog
  In the 1500s copyright was easy to manage if you controlled printing. For a few hundred years, The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers did exactly that. The organisation dates back to 1403 and some of the principles of...
• Posted Thoughts from a new joiner to Blog
  Lars Plougmann joins the Headshift team.