by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 1, 2010 | Event, On the road
On Friday I had the privilege of speaking on a panel at Like Minds 2010 “Person to Person”, an event looking at the impact of Social Media, all the way from the media through to employee communication. We’ve enjoyed the onversations with organisers...
by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 11, 2010 | Event
Are businesses anti-social? And if they are, why are they? That was the topic for my talk at Social Media in Enterprise (#SMiE) at Cass Business School – with much thanks to David Terrar and Alan Patrick for putting on a great event. Social Media in the...
by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 1, 2010 | Event, Milestone Planner
Interest in “social graphs” has increased exponentially in the last year or two, with the rise of social networking platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn. At its most basic level, a social graph is a digital record of the relationships (or...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 29, 2010 | Milestone Planner
The week started with a major update to Milestone Planner that gives a taste of where we are heading. There are lots of new features, and it’s been fun to hear how people are using them already. I’m not going to list them all, but I will pick out a few of...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 18, 2010 | Management, Milestone Planner
I read these 10 questions on the Priority Attitudes blog. The post is from an article written by Richard Maybury’s colleague, Paul Stacey and is worth clicking through to read. I’ve met Richard and some of his clients, so I know that he gets results. Paul...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 8, 2010 | Milestone Planner
Ric Hayman has posted a piece on his blog: No – it’s “people AND process” which I strongly agree with. The more extreme end of the Enterprise 2.0 spectrum have placed a huge emphasis on the “people” side of the equation in...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 4, 2010 | Milestone Planner, Project Management
After reading “Create a 1-page strategic plan” on the Church of the Customer blog, I was inspired to try out an idea: Building a personal plan for the year in Milestone Planner. New Year’s resolutions have never really cut it for me – a few...
by Benjamin Ellis | Dec 21, 2009 | Management, Milestone Planner
Last week I shared some thoughts at MediaCamp London #3, which seem good to offer up here. Coffee in hand, I talked through the things I’ve discovered about the management of knowledge-driven and creative businesses over this past decade. I can’t say that...
by Benjamin Ellis | Dec 14, 2009 | Milestone Planner
Are you going all serious on me? Well, the answer is yes. We’ve always been very serious about Milestone Planner and now things are moving up a level. When you next logon you’ll notice that the “Beta” button has gone. For many services, being...
by Benjamin Ellis | Dec 10, 2009 | On the road
There’s an old joke (or is it a thought experiment?) that’s been updated for the Web 2.0 world: Q: If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time, would they reproduce the works of Shakespeare ? A: Now we have the blogosphere, we...
by Benjamin Ellis | Dec 9, 2009 | On the road
On Monday Jim and myself headed down the road to Dell’s Bracknell office for their B2B Social Media Huddle. Here’s my redux of the day, via selected highlights from the Twitter stream. @kerryatdell kicked things off with an energiser – hence the...
by Benjamin Ellis | Dec 4, 2009 | Milestone Planner
To get you started, here is a walk through of the main features of Milestone Planner, from when you sign in, to when you finish a project. Open a project Projects are the main spaces in Milestone Planner and most of the action is focused on them. Each project has a...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 17, 2009 | Milestone Planner, Project Management
One of the problems Milestone Planner sets out to address is the traditional bottleneck that happens in project management: Someone ‘owns’ the plan, and every-time there is an update, that person has to be contacted, update the plan and push a new version...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 9, 2009 | Milestone Planner
People have been asking about how to add other people to a project in Milestone Planner, so here is a quick walkthough. Head over to Milestone Planner and login (if you don’t have a login, then do sign up for a trial account now). Select a project, so you are in...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 4, 2009 | Milestone Planner
We have some updated videos showing how to put Milestone Planner to good use on their way , but in the meantime, Web Worker Daily did a great job of explaining what it can do, and how to use it to manage projects. In their words: It’s a bit like an online equivalent...
