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A suggested improvement to social network analysis

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 16, 2006
Filed in Culture

I was reflecting on the last social network analysis we did and it occurred to me that the survey response  might be heavily influenced by what was happening just …

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Dynamic equilibrium in a KM program

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 14, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

I started blogging in 2002, first using Radiolands then Blogger. As many Anecdote readers would be unaware of my ordinal posts I thought I would …

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Rebuilding a community of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 12, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Last month actKM faced a disaster. On the 15th January YahooGroups deleted the actKM group. It’s a long story and not really the point of …

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Who said determining the cause and effect was easy?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 12, 2006
Filed in News

The clever folk over at Cognitive Daily showed us some experiments that suggest that determining cause and effect relationships depends on what you are looking …

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Knowledge hoarding

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 12, 2006
Filed in Communication

Kaye Vivien asks the question: knowledge hoarding (is it real?) Absolutely! is my answer. The term ‘hoarding’ suggests a premeditated attempt to hide something away …

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coComment – clear conversation in the blogosphere

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

Now here is a great tool. Ever wanted to keep track of the comments you make on other people’s blog. Well coComment does just that. …

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Some excellent community of practice resources on del.icio.us

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 11, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

I was visiting Beverly Trayner’s blog today and noticed that she references a set of Nancy White’s del.icio.us tags on communities of practice. I think …

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Will the community of practice get started? A test and the effect of titles

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 9, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

We’ve been helping one of our large corporate clients this week make sense of a series of social network charts and during the process the …

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Call to update Wikipedia’s KM entry

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

Denham Grey has noticed that the knowledge management entry over at Wikipedia has deteriorated lately and has called on all of us who care about …

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Instructional video on storytelling

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 3, 2006
Filed in Fun

In the style of The Office, here’s a short video detailing how not to use storytelling in your organisation. And a good laugh too. Just …

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