Kate Carruthers on ABC Radio National’s Future Tense – technology hype and the FUD factor

7 years ago

Do you remember where you were during the lead up to Y2K? Kate Carruthers, who joined the Headshift team here in Australia earlier in the year, was recently part of a panel…

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Let the transformation of public services begin

7 years ago

Yesterday, Senator Tanner and Ludwig published the Australian federal government’s official response to the Gov 2.0 Taskforce report. The government agreed with the vast majority of recommendations, so I won’t provide a…

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Keeping Social Business Design Real

7 years ago

I was watching the Friendface episode of the IT Crowd the other day. At one point, Roy, Jen and Moss are all sitting in the office together but end up talking to each other on…

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Finally, no more cookie cutter online communities

7 years ago

I first became seriously involved in online communities while working at a professional services firm in the early 2000s – our total sum of knowledge about running ‘discussion databases’ fitted easily into…

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We are currently seeking input for Gov 2.0 Taskforce Project 8

7 years ago

Headshift is currently completing a project for the Government 2.0 Taskforce, to develop online engagement guidelines and a Web 2.0 toolkit for Australian government agencies (see the brief – PDF or RTF…

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A Wiki Case Study: Replacing a Static Intranet at a Law Firm

7 years ago

A few months ago we announced the release of the Social Networking for the Legal Profession report by the Ark Group, which was written by Headshift’s Lee Bryant and Penny Edwards. The London…

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Upgrading Democracy in Australia – Reboot needed

7 years ago

The Centre for Policy Development is an independent Australian public interest think tank. Lee Bryant and I were invited to submit an article for the latest edition of their Insight Magazine, which…

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Social innovation gardening

7 years ago

I wrote this short piece about the relevance of Government 2.0 to service delivery at a local level: The exciting dimension of Government 2.0 is the impact it can have on communities…

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SharePoint or Wiki?

7 years ago

This article was originally published in the May/June 2009 edition of Image & Data Manager magazine. Archimedes famously told us that with a long enough lever and fulcrum to rest it on,…

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More on social networking and the legal profession

7 years ago

The New Lawyer has provided a bit of a taste of some of the findings in our recent Social Networking for the Legal Profession report, which was written by Lee Bryant and…

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