The SocialOptic Blog

Take Me to the River – Activity Streams

June 4th, 2010 by Benjamin

If you have logged into Milestone Planner in the last day or two, you will have seen the latest new feature, the Activity Stream. A Better Sense of History Plans, as we call them in the app now – a nice, friendly short hand for projects – have always had a history. The basic version [...]

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23 Ways to Mess Up (Business) Relationships

May 26th, 2010 by Benjamin

Today I am up at Thinking Digital, in Gateshead. The evidence that the digirati are here in force is that the conference tag – #TDC10 – was trending topic on Twitter. Jonathan Drori has just given a provocative talk on the on classic pitfalls of business relationships, and how to make them, or : “23 ways [...]

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Creative Leadership

May 19th, 2010 by Benjamin

Outcome-based planning seems to attract a different type of leader. I had the opportunity to catch up with a few of our biggest Milestone Planner advocates on the phone today. I always come away from those discussions energised – they are a very different crew to the majority of executives I rubbed shoulders with in [...]

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Managing Client Expectations

May 19th, 2010 by Caalie

I caught site of a post about managing client expectations. Lots of us have projects to implement which involve not only folks from within our organisation, but clients, suppliers, contractors from other organisations. Sometimes managing the to-ing and fro-ing of who’s doing what where and when, and what the expectations around these goals are, can [...]

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Really Social Business – The Key to Collaboration

May 18th, 2010 by Benjamin

Thursday’s Being-Social Mashup event turned into a focal point for recent thinking and discussion. I chaired a panel on “How Social Media is changing the way we communicate” with Andrew Davis, Chris Thorpe, Jamie Riddell and David Cushman. Of course, within that is the assumption it is changing communication (thanks to Mat Morrison for that question). The [...]

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