Archive for November, 2005

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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Got conflict? Use the power law

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

Imagine this scenario of how conflict might arise in a group: You are facilitating a meeting. Everything is going great. During an action planning session …

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Facilitation is a fat word

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 17, 2005
Filed in Collaboration, Communication

Earlier this year Brian Bainbridge and I ran an open space event with a group of highly experienced facilitators exploring “Ways to even better NRM facilitation”. …

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So what does Anecdote do anyway?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 15, 2005
Filed in Insight

A typical comment from people who visit our website is, “love the content Shawn but what does Anecdote actually do?” We seemed to be so …

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