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Personal Knowledge Management
In an update on Personal Knowledge Management, Dave Pollard states the case for refocusing KM efforts away from the storing stuff in a central repository and …
Read MoreOne year on and an updated look and feel
We’ve given the Anecdote blog a face lift in celebration of its first year of blogging service. This is my third blog. My first started …
Read MoreWhole of Government Innovation CoP
Thanks to Elena (pictured here in a fetching Christmas hat) for organising the Christmas lunch today and Frank (or should I say Frank’s brother-in-law) for the …
Read MoreOur tendency to categorise and the effect on sensemaking
Patti over at 37 Days provides a brilliant and humorous description of Richard Nisbett’s work on how westerners and Asians perceive the world differently. Her …
Read MoreAnnotations and their role in building context
Denham Grey’s post on just how useful annotations can be in providing context reminds me of two famous annotators, Pierre de Fermat and J Edgar Hoover. Fermat …
Read MoreSo what does Anecdote do anyway?
A typical comment from people who visit our website is, “love the content Shawn but what does Anecdote actually do?” We seemed to be so …
Read MoreFree access to Peter Drucker articles in commemoration of his recent passing
McKinsey Quarterly is making available articles by Peter Drucker in commemoration of his death this week. He will be sadly missed, especially for those of …
Read MoreKnowledge mapping is sensemaking
I’ve noticed an increased interest in knowledge mapping recently. A couple of tenders have been released, there’s talk about it on ActKM and some of …
Read MoreAustralian cartoonist
We use cartoonists to illustrate archetypes as part of the sensemaking process. This is a fun activity which has the serious side of helping to …
Read MoreShare a story – March of Dimes story
Whenever someone asks me ‘who is doing something really interesting with blogging?’ I point them to the March of Dimes’ Share Your Story website. Share is …
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