Personal Knowledge Management

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2005
Filed in Communication

In an update on Personal Knowledge Management, Dave Pollard states the case for refocusing KM efforts away from the storing stuff in a central repository and …

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One year on and an updated look and feel

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2005
Filed in News

We’ve given the Anecdote blog a face lift in celebration of its first year of blogging service. This is my third blog. My first started …

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Whole of Government Innovation CoP

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 25, 2005
Filed in Fun

Thanks to Elena (pictured here in a fetching Christmas hat) for organising the Christmas lunch today and Frank (or should I say Frank’s brother-in-law) for the …

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What are wikis good for?

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 24, 2005
Filed in Anecdotes

A few months ago, as an experiment, Shawn, Mark and I attempted using a Wiki as a way to work collaboratively on a paper. What we found however was that …

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What do bank managers, pharmacists and salesmen all have in common?

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 23, 2005
Filed in Communication

Well, they did all just appear in a Roy Morgan survey of Professional Ethics and Honesty. But, the interesting thing is there seems to be a …

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Community of practice synonyms

Posted by  Mark Schenk —November 23, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

I have just returned from a conference in Sydney on Knowledge and Innovation.  I sat on a panel yesterday addressing the question “Communities of Practice: …

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Our tendency to categorise and the effect on sensemaking

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 22, 2005
Filed in Culture

Patti over at 37 Days provides a brilliant and humorous description of Richard Nisbett’s work on how westerners and Asians perceive the world differently. Her …

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How do you design your questions for a Social Network Analysis?

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 21, 2005
Filed in Communication

One of the key components to a social network analysis (SNA) is the designing of the questions. Here are some examples of some questions often used …

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Annotations and their role in building context

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 20, 2005
Filed in Insight

Denham Grey’s post on just how useful annotations can be in providing context reminds me of two famous annotators, Pierre de Fermat and J Edgar Hoover. Fermat …

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Words should be full of meaning

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 18, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

Following right on the tail of my post on Facilitation is a fat word I came across this posting over at The Monster Blog: Words should be …

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