Archive for 2007

Social search – getting your community and colleagues to help improve findability

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 24, 2007
Filed in Communication

Why does Google work? Because on the internet people link between sites. Popular sites are popular probably because they are relevant and more people link …

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Chasing cool

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 23, 2007
Filed in Strategy

Who is prescient enough to be able to consistently predict the future? These researchers think they can. Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing via …

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Why we need stories from the edge

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 23, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

I came across the idea of the power law when I read Duncan Watt’s Six Degrees. It’s the one that best describes city population distributions, …

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Storytelling in organisations (and organizations)

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 22, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

The Anecdote website is all about storytelling in organisations. You can get an idea of how we use business narrative by checking out how we …

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What’s in a knowledge environment?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 21, 2007
Filed in Strategy

In 2002 I wrote a paper called Crafting a Knowledge Strategy. Its basic premise was that a knowledge strategy should be designed for emergence: it …

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Complexity described

Posted by  Mark Schenk —September 19, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Here is a great quote from Ursula K. LeGuin that succinctly describes complexity. It was posted by Kathleen Osta to the Open Space List earlier …

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Most Significant Change – a primer

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 19, 2007
Filed in Communication, Leadership Posts

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” When Einstein uttered these words little did he know that …

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Dreadful managers

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 16, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

How do they get away with such appalling behaviour? I’ve seen some dreadful displays by managers who seem to revel in the power and forgetting …

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Anecdote News – September 2007

Posted by  Daryl Cook —September 14, 2007
Filed in News

Welcome to the September Anecdote newsletter. It’s been a busy but exciting past month. During August we celebrated Anecdote’s third birthday and to mark the …

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Storytelling and social media

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 14, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Jennifer Jones mentions that she has been working with Intel on the social media activities and how storytelling plays an important role in Intel’s success …

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