Archive for April, 2006

Improved whitepaper availability on the Anecdote site

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 30, 2006
Filed in News

James Farmer and James Robertson both suggested we ditch our requirement to enter your details in order to download our whitepapers. We had been thinking …

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Weaving Together Online and Face-To-Face Learning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 30, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

John Smith and Beverly Trayner have written an interesting and useful paper describing how community coordinators can use a combination of online technology and face-to-face …

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Phase changes in social systems

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 28, 2006
Filed in Culture

You may have heard of the Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing metaphor for team development. This metaphor provides a lens by which you can view a groups evolution through the …

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8 ways to avoid complexity

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 25, 2006
Filed in Fun

Do not do business Reduce your activities to zero Don’t leave the house Don’t call Don’t talk to anybody Stay in bed Close your eyes …

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Evaluating the soft stuff

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 24, 2006
Filed in Communication

Decision-makers are under increasing pressure to justify their decisions and then account for their success (or otherwise) to a variety of stakeholders. Evidence-based management (1) …

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Complex adaptive system—driving in India

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 22, 2006
Filed in Fun

From YouTube. Driving in India. Mesmerizing!

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Jajah may be more useful than Skype

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 22, 2006
Filed in News

I discovered today that Daniel Pink writes a column for Yahoo Finance discussing trends. In his latest piece he suggests water will be more valuable …

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The problem with Wayne Gretzky’s puck advice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 22, 2006
Filed in Communication

Last week we were talking about metaphors used in organisations and how they affect they way people think, and act. One popped up which got me …

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The relationship between projects and communities of practice—redux

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 21, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Mark and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves over the last couple of days delivering our communities of practice workshops. The discussions were excellent. Thanks to all …

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Welcome to the blogosphere – Straits Knowledge

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 21, 2006
Filed in News

Patrick, Edgar and Paolina over at Straits Knowledge (in Singapore) has just started a blog (Green Chameleon) and it will be one of my must reads. …

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