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The difference between knowledge and information

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 11, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration, Strategy

“Not that old chestnut” I hear you cry. We have written a whitepaper on this subject and blogged on it a few times. It keeps …

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Best website for learning

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 8, 2008
Filed in News

We were advised this morning that LearnX Asia Pacific 2008 has announced that the winner in the category of ‘Best Website for Learning’ is ……..Anecdote! …

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Managing knowledge in not-for-profit organisations

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 28, 2008
Filed in Collaboration, Events

actKM is again participating in the annual Information Awareness Month. This year, actKM is hosting a world cafe-style event on the topic of: ‘How can …

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Workplace diversity

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 23, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes

Every month, the Australian Institute of Management publishes its magazine ‘Management Today‘. The back page (p56) of the May 2008 edition has some comments about …

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Building a collaborative workplace – Canberra workshop

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 15, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Improved collaboration is a business imperative – to develop and implement strategy, to leverage existing capabilities and knowledge, to innovate, be more resilient in a …

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Footprints in time

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 8, 2008
Filed in Culture, Events

Chandni and I have just returned from the official launch of Footprints in Time, a longitudinal study of indigenous children designed to identify the things …

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Making sense of history

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 25, 2008
Filed in Communication

I am reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I enjoyed his description of how history is extremely opaque; how “you see what comes …

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Community of Practice success story

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 9, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

One of the best ways to illustrate the value of Community of Practice efforts is to find stories of success and to use them. We …

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Moving on

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 6, 2008
Filed in News

Anecdote has been fortunate to have had Krista Schmeling as part of our team since mid-October last year. She has done lots of work supporting …

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Communities of Practice

Posted by  Mark Schenk —December 12, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

There are a whole bunch of useful concepts used by organisations to focus their community of practice and knowledge management programs. Some of the more …

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