by Benjamin Ellis | May 26, 2010 | Event, Milestone Planner
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 19, 2010 | Leadership, Management
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...
by Caalie | May 19, 2010 | Management, Milestone Planner
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 18, 2010 | Milestone Planner, On the road
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 12, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning
It’s been an interesting few days in the UK, but my eyes have been drawn to a news story about US President Obama. It’s positioned as a bombshell, but I’m not so sure why. “‘You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 4, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning, Project Management
Before you read this you’ll need a pen and a piece of paper… OK. Draw a square. Now draw a triangle on top of the square. On the right hand side of the triangle, just on top, draw a rectangle. Now inside the first square you drew draw four other squares...
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 26, 2010 | Milestone Planner
The week sees another release of Milestone Planner, with some new features and a lot of work behind the scenes for a complete new set of features – I’ll write more about that in the next few posts – still in private beta right now. If you would like...
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 6, 2010 | Milestone Planner
The latest version of Milestone Planner just went live. The latest release brings a frequently requested feature, and a little something that we built to keep things moving along. Milestone Dependencies in Projects We often get asked if Milestone Planner supports...
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 1, 2010 | Milestone Planner
April 1st, Reading, UK. Milestone Planner has lead the way in collaborative, real-time project management and outcome-based planning since it’s launch last year. However, the SocialOptic team hasn’t stopped there. Inspiration has come from the run away...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 24, 2010 | Milestone Planner, On the road
Last week I had the pleasure of being over at South by South West in Austin, Texas. Although its roots are in the music industry, it is also one of the largest digital interactive events on the planet. Web folks, designers, programmers, agencies and big brands gather...
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...
