Archive for August, 2005

An artist and the soirée

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 14, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

My sister-in-law, Fern Smith, is an artist who is conducting an interesting experiment. Fern is keen to engage people in discussions about the ideas represented …

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VOIP Technology – you should know about this

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 11, 2005
Filed in News

Ron Rogers at Weby Systems does a fantastic job of keeping the technologies I use up and running. He has recently been testing VOIP (Voice …

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The role of instant messaging in communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 10, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

James Dellow made an excellent post today pointing us to some articles in The Australian which explore the ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of instant messaging (IM). …

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IBM and Sun build their blogging approach

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 9, 2005
Filed in News

B.L. Ochman compares IBM’s and Sun’s blogging policies. It is interesting to note how IBM developed their approach: The core principles — written by IBM bloggers …

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Components of a community of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 8, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

This article in Harvard Business Review Working Knowledge is both helpful and confusing. It’s helpful because it reminds community practitioners of the need to stay …

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Learning from mistakes – prerequisite for innovation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 7, 2005
Filed in Insight

In Melbourne we have a small group of mainly public sector folk who get together monthly to talk about innovation. Recently we have been talking …

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Knowledge Sharing Toolkit

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 7, 2005
Filed in News

An excellent resource has been recently made available on the net: the knowledge sharing toolkit by David Bartholomew. It seems to be the product of …

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“Lessons learned” creates the wrong mindset

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 4, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

I have been thinking about the term ‘lessons learned’ today. In a way it’s an oxymoron. The word ‘lessons’ suggests something that is known which can …

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Etienne Wenger’s slides from his recent visit to Melbourne and Canberra

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 2, 2005
Filed in Collaboration

In July we hosted Etienne at a range of events in Canberra and Melbourne. Many of you have been asking for a copy of Etienne’s …

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