David Reinhardt

David is a London based technologist working for BSG (UK). He likes to think about how people and organisations get the most out of emerging technologies. You can find him on his blog and Twitter.

Stories by David Reinhardt

2011 08 18 handshake TNW

Handshaking On Social Networks

My company is hard at work in the final design stages of a Web service which has an enterprise social flavour. In the throngs of a design session this week,…

2011 07 18 circles

Google+ and social media policy

Two weeks on and the dust is still settling on Google+. Here on TNW we’ve dissected it every which way and continue to make observations as we use it more…

2011 06 14 handshake tnw

LinkedIn: how to up your game

In the wake of the LinkedIn IPO, Alex Wilhelm wrote a feature to get you started on the professional social network. In this post, I want to enable you to…

Ticklist

Usability and Enterprise Social Networks

Recently I’ve started being far more up-front with colleagues about progress on tasks. It’s not that I ever set out to communicate badly, or – gasp! – let tasks slip…

Lineup

Overhauling Angry Birds Achievements

According to my Achievements page I am a True Angry Birds fan (I’ve played for at least 15 hours). I’ve even got the very smiley face badge to prove my…

People finder

Enterprise social & finding people

Over the past two years I’ve been involved in designing and demonstrating enterprise social across a number of sectors and geographies. In this Facebook age there’s always excitement around the…

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Enterprise social, location or features?

In the past fortnight my company’s use of Yammer has dropped from dozens of posts daily to pretty much zero. We’re a medium sized business of 160 people spread across…

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Paying for web services?

For a few months now Jimmy Wales’ haunting eyes have been stalking me on Wikipedia. Admittedly, I am a regular user and believe in paying for content – so I…

Texting

8 ways to improve text messaging

In all the hullaballoo about smartphones and the app generation, it’s often forgotten that there are some basic functions which a phone needs to perform: calls and messages. The smartphone…

2010-12-04-anarchy-blog

Grassroots enterprise social networks and the path to IT anarchy

The incredible growth of Yammer has lifted the lid on a relatively new debate in the software world – should software be introduced in the enterprise by a central IT…

Working together

Mitigating the risks of Yammer

Yammer boasts that it is in use by over 90,000 companies and organisations, including over 80% of the Fortune 500. That’s an incredible achievement, but its also quite scary. Many…

2010 09 26 cubicle ii

Designing your enterprise social network

For many years it seemed that our online lives were quite disparate from our work lives. Web services such as Amazon and eBay grew increasingly sophisticated whereas in many offices…

Crystal ball

5 trends shaping the next few years

The past few years have seen some spectacular changes in the technology that embeds itself in our daily lives. The perfect storm of social media, smart phones and location awareness…

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Curated.by brings a meaningful way to curate and share Twitter content

The web created pages we wanted to return to, so browsers began saving local bookmarks. Then came the likes of Delicious which allowed people to share their favourite sites and…

Curated.by brings curation to Twitter

The web created pages we wanted to return to, so browsers began saving local bookmarks. Then came the likes of Delicious which allowed people to share their favourite sites and…