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Home Comforts not Sun Tzu

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 2, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

The military metaphor is dominant in many organisations. How many times have you heard colleagues talking about doing battle, gathering the troops, working in headquarters, …

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Practicing identifying anecdotes

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 2, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

Our narrative technique relies on the identification and extraction of anecdotes, typically from transcriptions. The ability to quickly identify an anecdote comes with practice so …

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Understanding creative commons

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 31, 2005
Filed in Insight

In a matter of two weeks I’ve stumbled across the work of Larry Lessig. Last week I read about the Lessig presentation style at Presentation …

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One week to register for the narrative techniques workshops

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 31, 2005
Filed in Events

This is the last week before we run our narrative workshops in Sydney and Brisbane. If you want a really practical understanding of how to …

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ActKM should abandon its conference

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 30, 2005
Filed in Employee Engagement

I would like ActKM to abandon the speaker-audience model in their conferences and adopt something radically different—discussions. Dave Winer sums the problem up beautifully: The …

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Live from ActKM

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 27, 2005
Filed in News

Andrew, Mark and I are currently at the ActKM conference in Canberra. So far it’s been the best ActKM conference in its six year history. …

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Anecdotes: transcribed or documented

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 23, 2005
Filed in Anecdotes

Obviously anecdotes play a key role in our work. We use these real life business stories to help people see patterns that typically remain hidden using traditional …

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Sensemaking: the role of stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 21, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

When something happens we like to tell others about it. This retelling of our experience often is done in the form of a story. “I can’t believe what …

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Are companies in Australia blogging?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 21, 2005
Filed in News

A quick question for everyone. Are you aware of any Australian companies who are blogging inside the firewall? I’m working with a mid-sized professional service …

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ActKM Conference is next week

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 18, 2005
Filed in Events

This is the best KM conference in Australia because it consists of practitioners talking about how it is done – no vendor presentations. It’s a …

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