Health secretary calls for new ideas for health apps

August 21st, 2011 by Rowan Purdy

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has launched a call for new ideas for health apps that would help patients make informed decisions about their care.

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Categories: apps, collaboration, communications, government, innovation, knowledge sharing, networking, social software, web services


Managing knowledge to improve social care

September 14th, 2010 by Rowan Purdy

The SCIE e-learning programme ‘Managing knowledge to improve social care’ co-authored by Surepoint is now available online.

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Categories: learning


Will App Inventor make my phone miPhone?

July 23rd, 2010 by Rowan Purdy

The arrival of App Inventor from Google promises to put us back in control of the apps on our phones and may force our hands on the iPhone vs Droid phone debate.

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Categories: apps, open source


Mindmap of Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS white paper

July 13th, 2010 by Rowan Purdy

This radical shake up of the NHS will impact on many Surepoint clients. To help us make sense of this we have tried to capture the new landscape in a mindmap.

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Categories: government, Mind map, open source, visualisation


Analysing tweets with common #tags

February 25th, 2010 by Rowan Purdy

I came across some interesting applications to analyze the content of the tweets using common #tags when watching the Twitter back channel from the 10th Anniversary Henley KM Forum Conference.

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Categories: analytics


Peer assist animation

November 1st, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

Fantastic animation explaining the peer assist methodology.

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Categories: collaboration, knowledge sharing


No more consultants

October 16th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

No More Consultants is the new book by Geoff Parcell and Chris Collison, best-selling authors of “Learning to Fly”.

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Categories: knowledge sharing


Twitter Search in Plain English

October 2nd, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

Useful animation from Lee Lefever at Commoncraft that explains the benefits of Twitter Search.

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Categories: analytics, social networking


Tracking the performance of your videos on YouTube

September 16th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

Many people I have encountered who use YouTube to share videos remain unaware of the analytics capabilities now available c/o Google.

Categories: analytics, web 2.0


Discover what you know

September 2nd, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

Ad-like video about knowledge management from Lotus.

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Categories: knowledge sharing