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One year on and an updated look and feel
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 …
Read MoreWhole of Government Innovation CoP
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 …
Read MoreWhat are wikis good for?
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 …
Read MoreWhat do bank managers, pharmacists and salesmen all have in common?
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 …
Read MoreCommunity of practice synonyms
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: …
Read MoreOur tendency to categorise and the effect on sensemaking
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 …
Read MoreHow do you design your questions for a Social Network Analysis?
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 …
Read MoreAnnotations and their role in building context
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 …
Read MoreWords should be full of meaning
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 …
Read MoreGot conflict? Use the power law
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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