Archive for 'Features'
Staying Agile in government
Posted on 16. Sep, 2011 by Guest.
Guest blogger: James Stewart is Tech Lead for the Government Digital Service (GDS), a new central government business unit working on delivering government services online and digitally by default. After many years freelancing and running a small web development agency (Ket Lai) he joined GDS to build the Alpha.gov.uk prototype, and is now pulling together [...]
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Cloud on a promise
Posted on 17. Aug, 2011 by Guest.
Guest blogger: Stuart Lauchlan is Head of Editorial, SiftMedia, publishers of PublicTechnology.net, for all buyers and sellers of public sector ICT, (www.publictechnology.net) and BusinessCloud9, the UK’s first dedicated Cloud Computing publication (www.businesscloud9.com). Stuart will be discussing the topic below in more depth at Huddle’s government cloud computing conference on 12 October. Read more and register here. “But [...]
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Teamwork: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Photos)
Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by Joe.
We all know that teamwork is a critical part of any business’s success. In fact, working together efficiently with teammates can boost your odds of success in just about any facet of life – marriage, sports and parenting to name a few. Collaboration skills and tools can make your life much easier in the long [...]
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10 Holiday Decorating Ideas for Geeks
Posted on 07. Dec, 2010 by Joe.
It’s that time of year again: the weather is chilly, the stores are packed, and Christmas is just around the corner. TV commercials would have you believe that they have something for everyone on your list, but what about the geeks in your life? Oh sure, they could always use another electronic gadget, but I’m [...]
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10 Unlikely Collaborations in the Animal Kingdom
Posted on 05. Nov, 2010 by Joe.
Many of us have been led to believe that things are pretty cut and dry in the animal world. Unlike the human world where people of different cultures, countries, sexes, interests, religions, and opinions happily coincide and collaborate (for the most part) and sometimes even forge friendships, the animal world is segmented and brutal at [...]
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10 Much Needed Stress Relief Techniques at the Office
Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by Joe.
Despite countless studies that have found that exercise is the best way to relieve stress, many of us do anything but exercise when we’re feeling the pull of our countless obligations. The most common forms of stress relief often involve fatty comfort food, cocktails, or an unprecedented amount of shopping (mostly for things we do [...]
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20 Work-at-Home Productivity Boosting Tips for Telecommuters
Posted on 01. Oct, 2010 by Joe.
Whether you work from home full time or just make use of your home office in the evenings, you know how hard it can be to be productive and stay on track. Usually, social networking sites and the internet as a whole tend to be the biggest productivity inhibitors, but there are countless other distractions [...]
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Flexible working: The cultural change
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by Colin White.
Last week, I spoke about how Generation Y and advances in technology were impacting flexible working practices. Today, I’m going to look at the impact of flexible working on business culture. Attitudes to flexible working can be split. Fit around the new breed of workers and you risk alienating non-Generation Y employees. However, the good [...]
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When Divas Collide: Five Pop Star Collaborations that Rocked the World
Posted on 10. Sep, 2010 by Joe.
If there’s anything better than one pop star belting out an infectious tune with a catchy beat, it’s two. The term “duet” is a thing of the past; the modern day equivalent is now always referred to as a “collaboration.” In years past, men ruled this type of mash up, one only needs to look [...]
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Reduce my carbon emissions by how much?
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Laurika.
Law makers have it easy don’t they? In my mind I see a bunch of people sitting around a large oval table drinking coffee and eating biscuits, all the while discussing the pros and cons of different laws. And then, finally, with a show of hands vote a new Act or Bill into being. I [...]
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Plugin to Huddle
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by Luke.
We talk alot about collaboration here in Huddle: team collaboration; inter-team collaboration; collaboration ‘outside the firewall’; but how about inter-software collaboration? We all use software tools, most of us everyday. We create word documents, spreadsheets, presentations – really a huge panoply of documents that we then save, email, version on our own local hard drives [...]
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Save our Mother
Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by Laurika.
We all know that Mother Earth is in trouble. You only need to open a newspaper or click on a news site and the term climate change stares back at you accusingly. While there are some that say it’s all just hype, most of us believe what we’re seeing: the diminishing polar ice cap, the [...]
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Z is for The End
Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by Laurika.
I’m a little ambivalent about this final post of the A to Z series. My right side is sighing with relief because sticking to such a strict list has been a challenge to my creative impulses. My left side is weary because it was happy for the fall back on those days that I felt [...]
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Y is for Yardstick
Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by Laurika.
Measuring the success of collaboration can be a very subjective thing because there are often no clear monetary results or return on investments. One person’s success is another’s failure. So how do you measure a successful collaboration strategy? Firstly, forget the monetary results. Instead focus on issues like increased employee satisfaction, getting tasks done more [...]
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X is for eXcellence
Posted on 17. Jun, 2010 by Laurika.
Three reasons why collaboration is good for you and the world around you. Charles Leadbeater on Innovation and Collaboration In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs using new tools are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t. A researcher at the London [...]
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W is for FIFA World Cup
Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Laurika.
My brain is stuck on one thing today. No amount of arguing, negotiating or even begging with it seems to change that fact. The only thing W can stand for is The FIFA 2010 World Cup. As a South African it has more meaning to me than ever before and I hope you’ll forgive me [...]
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V is for Value
Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Laurika.
Old school geeks have been collaborating since the beginning of the internet, if not before. I’ve seen it in action. A tricky piece of code gets posted on a forum and hours later the answer appears. How amazing is that? The first time I saw this I thought: “What’s the catch?” Cynical I know, but [...]
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U is for Users
Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by Laurika.
Collaboration cannot happen without users. That’s pretty obvious right? People need to get together to collaborate, either online or in person. More than that, people need to have a similar goal in mind for the whole thing to work. Users are finicky creatures. We’ve all heard about the statistic that says only about 1% of [...]
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Six awesome UK/US TV spin-offs to sink your teeth into
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Joe.
Now that Simon Cowell, American Idol judge and mastermind behind many incredibly lucrative and popular UK/US spin-offs, has left the American Idol judges’ table in order to create a U.S. version of the popular UK show X-Factor, it’s become very apparent just how many of these spin-offs there have been. Though it seems like this [...]
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Social business software for PR agencies
Posted on 26. May, 2010 by Laurika.
PR professionals have a tough job. They have to keep many people with different agendas happy. First, there’s the client who wants coverage, pages and pages of coverage – sometimes for very little cost and with very little news to share. Then there’s the journalist who wants hard hitting news. And finally, there is the [...]
