Archive for 2006

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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Improved whitepaper availability on the Anecdote site

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 30, 2006
Filed in News

James Farmer and James Robertson both suggested we ditch our requirement to enter your details in order to download our whitepapers. We had been thinking …

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Weaving Together Online and Face-To-Face Learning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 30, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

John Smith and Beverly Trayner have written an interesting and useful paper describing how community coordinators can use a combination of online technology and face-to-face …

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Phase changes in social systems

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 28, 2006
Filed in Culture

You may have heard of the Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing metaphor for team development. This metaphor provides a lens by which you can view a groups evolution through the …

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8 ways to avoid complexity

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 25, 2006
Filed in Fun

Do not do business Reduce your activities to zero Don’t leave the house Don’t call Don’t talk to anybody Stay in bed Close your eyes …

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