smarter, simpler, social
Channel 4 - Medicine Chest
Medicine Chest is a space to share, find and compare traditional approaches to health and healing. Channel 4 approached Headshift when they wanted to create an online environment that would help people find and compare traditional approaches to health and... read full post
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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... read full post
BBC Blogs Network
BBC Blog Network - from consulting to final implementation Over 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... read full post
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... read full post
Involve's 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... read full post
Legal Division - Major 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... read full post
Age Concern England
Aimed at web users over fifty, the ACE community and social networking site is a place to make friends, share photos, stories and memories. Meeting the needs of those over fiftyHeadshift developed this community and social networking platform for ACE... read full post
Major FMCG company
The wiki for this globally operating company in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry (FMCG) is a platform designed to support the work of researchers. It offers them collaborative project spaces and shared intelligence corners to foster discoverability of ideas,... read full post
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... read full post
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 ideasWith the wiki we... read full post
Innovation Exchange
Headshift built a social aggregator drawing together innovative ideas across the third sector into a single space. It facilitates connections between people in the third sector (practitioners, innovators, etc), social investors and public sector commissioners to catalyse collaborative innovations. It... read full post
BBC Backstage
BBC Backstage is the BBC's developer network to encourage innovation and support new talent, and has served to kick-start the developer community around the various feed and API services provided by the BBC. However, as the community has grown there... read full post
Do the Green Thing
'Do the Green Thing' is an experiment in changing social behaviour through the use of social media. The aim is to reduce CO2 emissions by doing 'green things', and then sharing and displaying your green activity to encourage your peers... read full post
Patient Opinion
Patient Opinion is a revolutionary new online system that lets anyone share experiences of receiving specialist treatment on the NHS. The non-profit start-up is jointly funded by the Department of Health and South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority, and is led... read full post
Shiny Media
Shiny Media publishes over 40 UK blog titles. Headshift helped successfully move a number of these titles from one publishing platform to another, while all the time ensuring data integrity and minimum downtime. Headshift continues to host these blogs and... read full post
Innovation Unit
The Next Practice Acceleration Space is an online space where education professionals can share their ideas, experience and good practice whilst benefiting from the views and experience of their peers.Building a collaboration spaceHeadshift worked with The Innovation Unit to identify... read full post
Metro
Our client Metro is a global free newspaper group with a presence in multiple cities and countries around the world. Headshift helped Metro implement their new website in France - a pilot project that aims to include an extensive amount... read full post
NHS Collaborate
For NHS Collaborate Headshift worked with representatives of two distinct medical communities: one consisting of doctors and nurses, the other of health care managers. Our aim was to create a pilot platform to help different communities of health care professionals... read full post
The Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery online represents a radically open, uncensored and eclectic approach to art. Artists from all over the world can upload their art for public viewing in a space that showcases their work to thousands of daily visitors. An... read full post
Commission for Rural Communities
The Commission for Rural Communities ensures that governmental policies reflect the real needs of people living and working in rural England. Collaborating closely with the CRC and following a user-centred consultation and engagement process, Headshift developed the organisation's website and... read full post
The National Archives
Headshift developed an extranet for 'Knowledge and Information Management' professionals in the Government. This project was initiated and implemented by the National Archives, a government department and an executive agency under the Secretary of State for Justice.Connecting Knowledge and Information... read full post
BBC Every Square Mile
Every square mile is a BBC initiative designed to preserve the natural history of an area by collecting stories from local people and plotting them on a map of the area.Creating a 'People's History'Headshift worked with BBC to create a... read full post
BBC Prototypes
Exploring social media and testing how they can be used at the BBC we developed a range of social software prototypes, ranging from collaborative co-production tools, smaller social networks to new ways of bookmarking to obtain a better overview of... read full post
BBC Bubbles
BBC Bubbles is a place for kids to store and share their favourite stuff online - links, blogs, photos, videos, MP3s - and find other things they like. The interface was built by Headshift in collaboration with the BBC as... read full post
My Forrester Groundswell Awards Submission
The MentorNet program provides an intimate business social network that supports entrepreneurial women to grow their businesses through education, networking, and mentoring over a period of six months.MentorNet was the first national mentoring program for women in business to be... read full post
Castrol - Motoraddicts
Motoraddicts - a vibrant online social network for car lovers, was developed by headshift for Castrol as a way of reaching out to their most passionate customers. Conceived and developed by an international team, the project relied heavily on social... read full post
BP Beacon Awards
The Beacon Awards recognise excellence in marketing within BP. Headshift built the online home for the awards: an internal wiki platform where all entries and ideas for good BP marketing were organised, and where BP marketing employees worldwide could vote... read full post
BP Aromatics and Acetyls
Headshift piloted a simple social network tool for the BP Aromatics and Acetyls group to help support their sense of shared identity and culture, but also to help promote better collaboration within a business unit that spans the globe.A shared... read full post
International Law Firm
Headshift was asked by this international Law Firm to consult and advice on a system that would help them share and access knowledge across different parts of their global practice. Improved knowledge and information managementThe goal of this project was to... read full post
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Headshift designed a collaboration platform for the international law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. We integrated social media tools such as blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and RSS feeds, with the aim of improving the general flow and sharing of information. ... read full post
Allen & Overy LLP
UK 'Magic Circle' law firm Allen & Overy LLP wanted to improve knowledge and expertise sharing within the firm, allowing easy participation and content contribution from users across multiple global locations. The firm recognised that such improvements offer enormous potential... read full post
