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Major Private Equity Firm
Headshift put a social network in place for a large investment firm and its portfolio companies to increase the value of their investment by enabling them to network, share knowledge and discover commercial opportunities in a safe environment.Using Ruby on... read full post
One & Other
One & Other is an art project conceived by Antony Gormley. The idea was to create a living portrait of the U.K. by putting 2400 people from all over the UK on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square London... read full post
British Airways - Metrotwin
BA's 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... read full post
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... read full post
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
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
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
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
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 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
