Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category

Collaboration’s resurgence

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 20, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Everywhere I turn recently and I hear people talking about the need to collaborate as if the idea was new. Why has collaboration become the …

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Storytelling, Business Narrative and Community of Practice Workshops

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 17, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling, Collaboration

2008 marks a busy year for Anecdote and this graphic gives you an idea of our workshop schedule. Storytelling is represented with bears, business narrative …

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Starting a community of practice – fostering relationships

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 17, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

In starting any community of practice, the first objective is to help the members recognise the value they will get from being and working together. …

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Conference call practices to generate knowledge and record learning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 3, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

John Smith and I worked together last year using Google Docs to create this practice note on ways to get the most from conference calls.

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Communities of Practice

Posted by  Mark Schenk —December 12, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

There are a whole bunch of useful concepts used by organisations to focus their community of practice and knowledge management programs. Some of the more …

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Collaboration at Tipping Point

Posted by  chandni —November 19, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

There are many ways to encourage collaboration in an organization. Using Web 2.0 tools is a great way to start a collaborative discussion in under …

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Name badges as conversation starters

Posted by  Robyn —November 7, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

Graham Harvey in his book ‘Seducing the Vigilante Customer ‘ tells of his experience in a restaurant. “Even though I sort of half guessed what …

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Changing people’s attitude toward change

Posted by  chandni —November 5, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Collaboration brings with it change and complexity and uncertainty. How are we going to do this? What will happen next? Why should we work like …

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Using Twitter to stay connected

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 1, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I was sceptical whether Twitter would be a useful business tool. I heard it was addictive so decided to keep away until I worked out …

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Collaboration conditions

Posted by  Mark Schenk —October 27, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

I was having a conversation last week about how easy it is to rob people of the permission to collaborate. Examples were provided of how …

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