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Why have a knowledge strategy? Emotions count

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 29, 2007
Filed in Strategy

The Democratic party in the US has had a pretty rough trot in terms of the number of Democratic Presidents that managed to secure a …

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Social bookmarking

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 27, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

One of the new practices that will be essential at a time when information volumes are exploding is social bookmarking. That’s because with social bookmarking …

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Patrick Lambe in Melbourne – The Vices and Virtues of Knowledge Management

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 27, 2007
Filed in Events

Friends of Anecdote are invited to join our colleagues in the Knowledge Management Leadership Forum and the KM Round Table to an evening seminar with …

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Shane Warne – David O’Doherty summed it up

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

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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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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