Author Archive

John F. Kennedy and the French Revolution

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Fun

I heard this anecdote last week. John Kennedy was meeting the Premier of China and during some initial small talk Kennedy asked the Premier what …

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Why people don’t use collaboration tools

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

David Pollard offered for anyone on the net to join him is a joint collaboration project using Writely. The topic: Why are conversation and collaboration …

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Posts you might have missed from the archives

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 15, 2007
Filed in News

We’ve been blogging at Anecdote now since 2004. And even before that I had two previous blogging attempts, one using Radio Lands and the other …

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Knowledge management jobs in Hong Kong

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 15, 2007
Filed in News

Eric Tsui asked me to let you know he has a couple of jobs going in Hong Kong. Here are the details. THE HONG KONG …

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Demonstration of Zahmoo and Sensemaker

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 15, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

For those of you who will be coming to our workshop in Sydney, we will be demonstrating our new Web 2.0 service called Zahmoo as …

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Definition of an Anecdote

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 13, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

I was over at Wikipedia today and ended up on the Anecdote article. Here’s their definition of an anecdote, which I think is pretty good. …

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Staff induction or orientation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 11, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Culture

I might have mentioned a few posts ago that we are currently helping a government department develop a staff induction program for their Aboriginal employees. …

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Narrative Techniques for Business Workshop in Sydney – 26 July

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 6, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Events

It’s been over a year since we presented this workshop in Australia, so we are pleased to say we are running our narrative techniques for …

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Anecdote is Enterprise 2.0

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 4, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Luke Naismith sent me the link to this presentation. And after a quick look it’s immediately recognisable; it’s how we work at Anecdote. If you …

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When to use open source techniques

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 3, 2007
Filed in Collaboration, Strategy

Nicholas Carr has written a thought provoking piece in Strategy+Business on the limitations of open source approaches. In a nutshell, open source approaches work best …

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