by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 16, 2010 | Milestone Planner
Jim and myself have been on the road for a couple of weeks, talking with new, existing and future users of Milestone Planner. We’ve learnt lots, and back at the office the coffee bill has gone down! A lot of the new learning has gone into our latest release...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 1, 2010 | Knowledge Work
Last but one post on Likeminds, based on this interview by Mike McGrail of theBIGPartnership (@BigPartnership on twitter), where I talk about my keynote and a bit about Likeminds: Some of the key points The way that we engage with knowledge has changed. There is not a...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 29, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning
I’m down at Likeminds this week, so I thought I’d follow up on the word cloud Jim shared yesterday with a cloud of the afternoon’s twitter discussions about Likeminds. A slight bit of self-interest, as I did my keynote in the afternoon ;) -but there...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 28, 2010 | Milestone Planner
We love word clouds at SocialOptic. They are a great way of getting a quick overview of a huge amount of information. So given that I’m back at the ranch while Benjamin is speaking at the Likeminds conference today, I thought I’d try and get a feel for...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 22, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning, Productivity
Can You See It? There were some great discussions at this week’s TVSMC meet up about observing and visualising work, particularly in talking with Simon Bostock. The challenge is that “knowledge work” isn’t as visible as “traditional...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 8, 2010 | Milestone Planner, planning
For sometime we’ve been looking at the next level of planning detail in Milestone Planner: Actions. It’s very deliberately actions and not tasks or to do’s! All of us here have used various to do list tools over the years, and it almost always ends...
by Benjamin Ellis | Sep 22, 2010 | Milestone Planner
Busy times for the SocialOptic Team! We were delighted that a distinguished panel of judges selected Milestone Planner as a finalist in the first round of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition, ranking us as one of the top 5 mobile start ups in the UK. The...
by Benjamin Ellis | Aug 4, 2010 | Milestone Planner, On the road
A little while back the kindly folks at WOMWorldNokia lent me a Nokia N900. It’s a monster of a phone, and I was seriously impressed with it – It’s like having a desktop computer in the palm of your hand. For me it is a pointer to the future of...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 19, 2010 | Milestone Planner
At the end of last week, a number of new features went live in Milestone Planner. The first is a set of enhancements to the way that the timeline view is displayed. We’ve made the layout of milestones more efficient and aesthetically pleasing. That means you can...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 28, 2010 | Leadership, Milestone Planner
Last week I caught Doug Richard, known from Dragon’s Den, and now the School for Start ups, at The Centre for Creative Collaboration. He was talking about Entrepreneurship and creativity. I’m sharing what he said here because the majority of Milestone...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 17, 2010 | Leadership, Management
Sometimes it takes a night’s sleep to digest a talk. Fons Trompenaars session yesterday here at Orange Live 10 was one such talk. It provoked a huge deal of discussion and argument in the Blogger’s room afterwards, and with a title like “riding the...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 16, 2010 | Leadership, Milestone Planner, On the road
I’m in Amsterdam, at Orange Business Live 2010 – An event Orange Business Services runs each year, looking at the challenges and changes in the communications space. At the pre-event evening event one thing that really struck me was the value in networking...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 8, 2010 | Leadership
I would like to bring some research to your attention. Depending on where you are in the organisation, you might not want to show this to your boss – it might cost you money. But if you are the boss, you need to know about this. It might revolutionise your...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 4, 2010 | Milestone Planner
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...
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...
