Archive for May, 2006

Bridges and Hubs in Social Networks

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 11, 2006
Filed in Communication

When it comes to Social Network Analysis (SNA) a common practice is to use centrality measures such as Betweenness (Bridgeness), Closeness and Degree. For instance, …

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Opening our Anecdote Shop

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 10, 2006
Filed in News

“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping”. As a patient husband who has trekked around my share of shops …

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Newspaper generator

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 10, 2006
Filed in Fun

Looks like we had one of our articles published in The Daily Anecdote. This newspaper clipping generator is a bit of fun. [via Steve Rubel] …

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Getting management buy-in

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 9, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

The actKM list has a discussion underway to collect stories of how people have (either successfully or otherwise) tried to get management support for their …

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Mindfulness, categories and Jorge Borges

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 8, 2006
Filed in Culture

Merlin Mann at 43 Folders points us to an interesting book called Mindfulness and makes reference to Jorge Borges’ (one of my favourite writers) famous list …

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Techniques to encourage dialogue

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 8, 2006
Filed in Communication

Last week I suggested we needed more techniques that fostered deeper conversations in business. Well here is a new resource which will help you get …

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The Chief Knowledge Officer’s first speech

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 7, 2006
Filed in Communication

David Maister has just written an example speech for a new Marketing Director starting out in a law firm. It occurred to me that a …

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Keeping the momentum going after an open space

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 5, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes, Communication

A few months ago I facilitated an open space session for a group of knowledge coordinators working in a government agency. We spent the day …

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Building in deeper conversations in what we do

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 2, 2006
Filed in Communication

Denham Grey says: In a world of information and knowledge, the key process for business is conversation. At the same time we never seem to have time …

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