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First person is best for teaching (learning?)
Another finding from Eide Neuroscience Blog. I love their piccies. In a study of healthy young adults learning a motor skill, teaching was found to …
Read More“What’s in it for me” is more memorable
It’s so easy to become insular having conversations with people within your discipline or professional practice. To guard against this malady I went looking for …
Read MoreA new and improved company profile (we hope)
Like all new businesses we’ve been asking questions of ourselves about what our business is all about. We’ve also had clients and friends say to …
Read MoreUsing comics to capture and make sense of stories
Here at Anecdote we mostly capture stories using anecdote circles recording what’s said on digital audio. But this is not the only way for people to …
Read MoreSoftware that takes you away from your computer
The first generation of collaboration tools like Groove, Quickplace, and eRooms where great for sharing documents and having online threaded discussions but had the unintended …
Read MoreData Visualization
Ever since reading Edward Tufte’s book Envisioning Information way back when I’ve been fascinated with how to best present complex information. So today I made …
Read MoreMaking headway in a new network
A first day at a new organisation is often daunting. Apart from just getting up to speed with what you are supposed to be doing …
Read MoreVisit to Hong Kong and Singapore in February
Mark and I are visiting Hong Kong and Singapore next month (20–22nd Feb in Singapore and 23–25 in Hong Kong) and we’re keen to meet …
Read MoreHarnessing complexity takes time and effort
Late last year I facilitated an open space event involving knowledge coordinators from a large government agency. These coordinators had never attended an open space …
Read MoreGoogle’s experimental decision market
Last September I reviewed James Surowiecki’s book Wisdom of Crowds. At the end of the review I said: I can understand why, as Surowiecki laments, …
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