Author Archive

Personal Knowledge Management

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2005
Filed in Communication

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 …

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One year on and an updated look and feel

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2005
Filed in News

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 …

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Whole of Government Innovation CoP

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 25, 2005
Filed in Fun

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 …

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Our tendency to categorise and the effect on sensemaking

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 22, 2005
Filed in Culture

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 …

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Annotations and their role in building context

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 20, 2005
Filed in Insight

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 …

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So what does Anecdote do anyway?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 15, 2005
Filed in Insight

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 …

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Free access to Peter Drucker articles in commemoration of his recent passing

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 15, 2005
Filed in News

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 …

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Knowledge mapping is sensemaking

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 15, 2005
Filed in Employee Engagement

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 …

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Australian cartoonist

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 5, 2005
Filed in Fun

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 …

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Share a story – March of Dimes story

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 5, 2005
Filed in News

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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