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Why people don’t use collaboration tools

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 21, 2006
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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Eight Rules to Brilliant Brainstorming

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 16, 2006
Filed in Communication

Andrew Hargadon and Bob Sutton did some research on brainstorming in the 90’s that has been written up in BusinessWeek recently. Bob says it’s a good …

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Remembering the art of good conversation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 15, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

A couple of years ago I started a little group in Melbourne called Emergence. It’s open to anyone who wants to talk about the application …

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What has Al Gore and Edward de Bono have in common?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 13, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

They’re both persuasive presenters. On Tuesday I watched Andrew Denton interview Al Gore on Enough Rope, and on the following day I had lunch with …

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Nancy White is coming to town

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 11, 2006
Filed in Events, News

We have a rare treat for anyone who’s in Melbourne on the 11th of October. Nancy White is giving a presentation on social software organised …

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Interview with Jess Dart

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 11, 2006
Filed in News

I have just posted an interview with Jess Dart, co-developer of the Most Significant Change technique, over at the Zahmoo blog.

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On noticing

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 8, 2006
Filed in Communication

The range of what we see and do Is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice That we fail …

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Complex systems for a complex world

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 6, 2006
Filed in News

My friends Pascal Perez and David Batten have just had published a new book called Complex systems for a complex world. It’s all about exploring …

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Fun in the workplace

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 6, 2006
Filed in Fun

The guys over at Signal vs Noise have it right. Fun is not at the other end of serious. You can have fun and be …

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A craving for the human touch

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 5, 2006
Filed in News

We’ve all had terrible experiences navigating through automated phone systems where you dial 2 for this and 3 for that only to have the system …

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