Archive for 2006

Happy Blog Day

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 1, 2006
Filed in Fun

The guys at www.blogday.org has asked bloggers to list 5 blogs you love reading. Well, here are my five: http://www.vpscin.org/ – all the happenings in the …

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Why we are worried about global terrorism and not global warming

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 31, 2006
Filed in Culture

Social psychologist, Dan Gilbert, says people will not get excited and worried about global warming in the same way people have about global terrorism because …

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Things we can learn from dogs

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —August 31, 2006
Filed in Fun

About two weeks ago my wife entered and won a Toastmasters humorous speech competition. Her winning speech was “searching for a soulmate”. It was about …

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Top knowledge management principles

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 30, 2006
Filed in Insight

Denham Grey has suggested a list of top KM principles. I’ve only included the headings here and encourage you to head over to Denham’s site …

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10 reflections on storytelling

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —August 28, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

It’s good to reflect. Take some time. Sit back… Reflect. Here’s some links to our thoughts on storytelling: Story telling versus story writing Ignite your …

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The Prato Dialogue

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 27, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

A handful of community of practice practitioners are meeting in Florence this October to reflect on the field’s theory and practice. Here is the blog Beverly …

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Foundations of Communities of Practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 27, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

If you want to understand Communities of Practice you couldn’t do better than join John Smith, Etienne Wenger and Bronwyn Stuckey on their online exploration …

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How to use the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 27, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

I’m reading Gerald Zaltman’s How Customers Think. I started from the back because I was attracted to the chapters on story, metaphor and memory. But …

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Building trust – find and listen to other’s stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 26, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

Karen Armstrong has written a piece in the Guardian today encouraging us to consider and accept multiple perspectives regarding the complex strife in the Middle …

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Meeting with the creator of Most Significant Change

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 25, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

I met with Rick Davies this week. He’s in Melbourne visiting his family and doing some work for Oxfam. We talked about the Zahmoo project and …

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