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links for 2009-01-06
2009 “a good year to change the world” | Open (minds, finds, conversations)... (tags: change) What Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers can teach us about interface design (tags: design culture language) Wireframes Magazine (tags: design webdesign wireframes)... read full post
Smaller, smarter solutions for charities and non-profits
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. read full post
Openness with policies and software
A site designed for opening up the policy formation process by trusting people to develop high quality content, based on software built in a very similar way. read full post
Le Web 2008 feedback
Another year, another Le Web. This year had some good bits, but was overall a bit mixed. I think the event needs some thought next year to stay relevant. read full post
links for 2008-12-12
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Forums are Full Frontal Symmetry (tags: forums web2.0 people collaboration) Why Intel's social media policy is a really big deal. Really.: The Social Path (tags: socialmedia policy guidelines intel) Facebook Shuts Down "Pro-Genocide" Group (tags: bosnia... read full post
Can you find the people you need?
One of the more common use cases of Enterprise 2.0 is finding expertise within a large organisation. At Lotusphere last year, a representative from the recently merged Bank of New York / Mellon Financial explained the problem (I'm paraphrasing slightly,... read full post
Getting started with enterprise social networking
Notes and slides from a talk I gave at Online Information 2008 in London about how companies are starting to adopt internal social networking as a serious business tool, and some tips on how to get started. read full post
Should knowledge retention be high on organizations' agenda?
Yesterday I stumbled across a post by Gordon Ross of Thoughtfarmer talking about a client where 50% of its staff is eligible to retire in the next eight years. What a massive brain drain! But we don't even have to... read full post
Social Innovation Camp: what a buzz!
Social Innovation Camp is getting better and better. This year's finalists did some really impressive work over the weekend and the ideas were excellent. read full post
More open and social....
Yesterday, I popped along to the Atlassian User Group and Open House to catch up with some old and new (riotous) acquaintances. The meet-up coincided nicely with the release of Confluence 2.10, which includes a multimedia widget connector (for embedding... read full post
Us Now at the RSA
Us Now is directed by Ivo Gormley and produced by Banyak films in association with the RSA. It is a documentary film about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet - I thoroughly recommend you sign up. read full post
A New Era with the DS InterAction 2.0 Platform
The "Rencontres Internationales des Responsables Intranet" took place in Paris last week. It was the event for intranet managers from several big multi-national firms and public administrations from all over France and Europe. For an event that boasts a... read full post
Headshift's Recent Participation at Journalism & Media Events
I've been really busy speaking at different events the past few weeks and, although I'm usually pretty good at letting people know where I'll be speaking, I've not managed to tell you much about how the events actually went or... read full post
Getting over my context collapse
After a chat with some colleagues, I feel inspired to say hello and get on with talking about some of the cool ideas, thoughts, thingys and widgets knocking around the minds of Shad Thames. read full post
Guardian Hack Day #1
Last Thursday and Friday, I was very lucky to be invited to the Guardian's first internal hack day. Whilst it was primarily an internal event, they also invited along a few of their friends to see what we could do with some of their information. read full post
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