Archive for October, 2005

Are companies in Australia blogging?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 21, 2005
Filed in News

A quick question for everyone. Are you aware of any Australian companies who are blogging inside the firewall? I’m working with a mid-sized professional service …

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Surprise in Social Settings

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 18, 2005
Filed in Communication

Two powerful ways of making sense (in a weickien way) are: Using frameworks to ‘frame’ data Getting people to explain and explore surprises The first technique of …

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ActKM Conference is next week

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 18, 2005
Filed in Events

This is the best KM conference in Australia because it consists of practitioners talking about how it is done – no vendor presentations. It’s a …

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Seth’s sensemaking on the web

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 17, 2005
Filed in Communication

You can think of the act of sensemaking as discovering the new terrain as you are inventing it. A man who is certainly mapping and creating …

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Sensemaking: mapping the terrain with one twist

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 16, 2005
Filed in Communication

Brian Arthur’s quote is a classic and I like the metaphor of sensemaking as mapping the terrain. I would add one twist which was introduced …

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Great quote from Brian Arthur on sensemaking

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 16, 2005
Filed in Culture, Leadership Posts

This has got to be one of the best quotes I’ve seen regarding sensemaking, from an article of Brian Arthur’s in the Harvard Business Review. Imagine …

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Making sense of sensemaking

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 15, 2005
Filed in News

Sensemaking is an important part of the business that we do here at Anecdote. We’ve decided that over the next month we’ll blog about it. Maybe …

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Storybook Moleskine

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 15, 2005
Filed in Fun

I’m a lover of Moleskine notebooks. Perhaps it’s their history or their sturdy design. Whatever the attraction I always have my notebook handy. I see …

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Language is vital for addressing complex issues

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

Dave Pollard is highlighting the similarities between wicked problems and complexity. I had a similar thought a few months back so it’s good to see …

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Corporate blogging – useful paper from Intelliseek and Edeman

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 12, 2005
Filed in News

Andrew and I are helping an Australian professional services firm introduce blogging. As part of the business case we’ve been searching for examples of other Australian …

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