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How to get the best out of training

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 2, 2006
Filed in Employee Engagement

David Maister has posted a list of things organisations should do to get the most from their training efforts. Here are two points which I’ve …

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Our new courses page

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 31, 2006
Filed in News

Over the last week or so we’ve been working on our Anecdote Courses page on the website. Please take a look and we would love …

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Stories, ROI and communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 30, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Steve Denning has compiled some of his recent posts on list-servs like com-prac and made the compilation available on his website. He covers the following …

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Last day for early birds

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 30, 2006
Filed in Events

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the last day for the early bird price for Starting and Sustaining Communities of Practice workshop. Either fax your …

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Data, Information, Knowledge: a sensemaking perspective

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 30, 2006
Filed in Insight

The relationship among data, information and knowledge is often depicted as a pyramid. With data at the base, it’s converted to information and information converted …

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The 1st Annual Symposium on Meaning Making in Organisations

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 30, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

Mark, Andrew and I spent Monday and Tuesday at the Australian National University’s Symposium on Meaning Making in Organisations. The event was organised by Paul …

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Lessons from MySpace on getting communities established

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 25, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Aber Whitcomb, CTO for MySpace, revealed to Robert Scoble some of the secrets behind MySpace’s popularity. They sound similar to the advise one might give to anyone starting a …

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How social indicators influence our choices

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 22, 2006
Filed in Culture

Just a few weeks ago I was wondering, “What’s Duncan Watts up to these days?”  Duncan wrote a terrific book called Six Degrees and re-investigated Stanley Milgram’s famous …

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Cartoon caption contest

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 19, 2006
Filed in Fun

The New Yorker is having its yearly cartoon caption contest. I noticed that anyone outside the US is uninvited so I thought we could have …

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Observation: leaving things to the last minute

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 19, 2006
Filed in Events

Have you noticed that people seemed to leave more and more things to the last minute? There are some good reasons for a decision-delaying strategy. …

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