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On Monday and Tuesday this week I trundled off to ACKMIDS. Actually I didn’t think I would make it this year because I was scheduled …

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 …

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 …

Something Shawn and I have chatted about is what makes a blog post worth commenting on. Having a browse through some of our most commented …

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 …

The topic at a meeting this morning was the design concept for a web-based ‘clearinghouse’.  I mentioned the risks of taking a ‘Field of Dreams’ …

Video is finally making it into the mainstream for organisations to see and hear, almost first hand, the experiences of their colleagues. The availability of …

In Melbourne we have a small group of mainly public sector folk who get together monthly to talk about innovation. Recently we have been talking …

I’m re-reading Karl Weick’s Sensemaking in Organizations and I thought this idea is worth keeping in mind. When facing conflicting and voluminous information avoid gathering more. …

Thanks to Larry Irons on the AOK forum for pointing this reference out. In a paper entitled, ‘Believe in the Model: Mishandle the Emergency’, Simon …