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Green things on Facebook
You can now look after your Green Thing creatures on Facebook and keep up with what your friends are doing to lower their carbon footprint read full post
Patient Opinion wins New Statesman New Media Award
Well done to the Patient Opinion team, who have picked up a well deserved award read full post
Fantastic Office space to let in Shad Thames
Having outgrown our offices and moved down the road to the lovely Clove Building in Shad Thames, we are looking to rent our old place at 49 Lafone Street, London SE1 2LX. We grew up there and we still love... read full post
Social Innovation: how do we find the right problems?
2gether is the latest in a sequence of London events to promote social innovation that provide a welcome stimulus for the public sector and social enterprises; but do they work? read full post
Robin Hamman joins Headshift
Our bunnies have scored another scalp - Robin Hamman to join Headshift - yay! read full post
Is Enterprise 2.0 about selling software or solving problems?
The Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston was very interesting, and reflected a maturing market for enterprise social computing - but can it avoid the vendor dominance that helped kill off KM? read full post
Headshift has shifted
Towards the end of last year we hit saturation point in our offices on Lafone Street due to the continued growth and expansion of Headshift. We were long overdue a change of premises, so I was given the (unenviable?) task... read full post
HMS Bebo
Via a link on the del.icio.us feed of Ewan McIntosh - a social media specialist in the education sector - I came across this "profile" of a Royal Navy submariner on Bebo. I say "profile", because it's clearly been manufactured... read full post
Web 2.0 Strategies 2008
During yesterday's Web 2.0 Strategies 2008 in London, speakers from a range of industry sectors traversed fairly well-worn, yet nevertheless interesting, issues associated with the adoption of social tools within businesses to improve operations and externally to encourage better connections... read full post
Headshift Casefiles wiki
We are proud to announce that we have finally launched the Headshift Casefiles wiki, which is a repository of case studies about the use of enterprise social tools (not just ours, although there are lots of them in there) and... read full post
Wiki Markets
Another addition to the open-source participation economy is the contest for the creation of new futures contracts. It's being staged on MarketsWiki - an online open source knowledge base for current and historical information about the global exchange traded capital,... read full post
Can newspaper social media sites continue to thrive alongside a strong public service broadcaster?
There has been a lot of very useful debate recently about the BBC's role in the UK media market, but I think the healthy and innovative position of major newspapers suggests they are not under threat from a strong BBC read full post
Sex, money and those other small challenges in life
After Motoraddicts, PatientOpinion and Greenthing Headshift has embarked again on a very exciting journey to build a service for - what marketers will probably soon coin as a 'hyper-niche social network' (only 694 entries on Google so far) - couples!... read full post
A fitter Twitter or is it just a feature?
Twitter and FriendFeed are full of self-referential debates about the future shape of micro-blogging and lifestreaming, but how and when will these tools begin to be used outside the geeky echo chamber? read full post
Social network interoperability: still waiting
Despite a flurry of recent announcements from Facebook, Google and MySpace, we are not really much closer to giving users control of their data and their authentication across different web sites where they have invested time building a personal presence read full post
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