Monthly Archives: August 2008

Basketball and blogging

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Jon Mell

It’s not often that my two worlds of basketball and Enterprise 2.0 collide – but here’s a great article by Slam magazine (can you still get that in the UK?) on how blogging affects bench players in the NBA.  Apparently … Continue reading →

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ROI of tagging

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Jon Mell

Here’s another ROI case study of social software from IBM – in short social tagging saves the average user 12 seconds when searching for information.  As there are 286,000+ searches every week, this equates to 955 hours per week resulting … Continue reading →

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Don’t make me think!

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Jon Mell

Spent a great afternoon with Headshift the other week, where I shared my thoughts about Enterprise 2.0 needing to be in the flow of existing collaborative tools.  I was challenged by Tom (blogs here) who made a strong case that collaboration … Continue reading →

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Death of the laptop

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Jon Mell

Over the last week, without consciously deciding to do so, I’ve been leaving my laptop at the office.  This happened one Friday when I was going away immediately after work and didn’t want to carry it around all weekend.  But it’s stayed … Continue reading →

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New wiki consultancy

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Jon Mell

An exciting announcement over at Grow Your Wiki – Stewart Mader is leaving Atlassian (although he will continue to work part time on special projects) to start a new venture focusing on Wiki Consulting.  I’ve had the pleasure of meeting … Continue reading →

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Shazam – killer iPhone app

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Jon Mell

I don’t usually blog about toys but Shazam has to be one of the cleverest iPhone apps yet.  A few years back I was wondering whether digital radio would allow you to hear a song on the radio, not be … Continue reading →

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Very cool Interactive Water Board

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Jon Mell

Not too sure what Google hits I’ll get for talking about a water board but the video on this is very very cool Not entirely sure what it would be used for though… http://www.baekdal.com/future/Interaction-Design/interactive-water/

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Enterprise 2.0 – Command not control

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Jon Mell

Just finished Blink by Malcolm Gladwell which is a fascinating read.  One of the concepts he discusses is being “in command but out of control”. The context is a U.S. war game in which Van Riper was placed in command … Continue reading →

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Social software – the basics

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Jon Mell

Sometimes you spend so much time thinking about things you over-complicate.  Enterprise 2.0 can be very simple. Do you believe that there is business value in who you know as well as what you know? Do you believe that a strong network of … Continue reading →

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