Archive for November, 2006

Three types of collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 29, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Nancy White and I have been working on a project to help our client enhance their collaboration practices. In the process we’ve identified three types …

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How a community can find the information it needs

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 26, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Social searching is the next big step in helping you get the search results you need. This is how it works. Someone in your community …

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Anecdote circles are like dinner parties…

Posted by  Mark Schenk —November 24, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

We often describe anecdote circles as being a bit  like dinner parties, with the exceptions that we try have just one conversation at a time, and …

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Here are 14 questions to help you decide what to do in your KM initiative

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 24, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

I’m reading Stealth KM: Winning Knowledge Management Strategies for the Public Sector. It’s a well written and comprehensive approach to implementing KM. And the author, …

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When collaborations go bad

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 23, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Here’s a great video describing how a collaboration between Rob Fulup and Michael Schrage (author of Serious Play) hit a low point but got back on track …

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How to use del.icio.us to foster collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 20, 2006
Filed in News

del.icio.us is a free social book-marking web site which can help a group share useful links. Instead of one person relying on their own efforts …

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Sharing how to do things

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 20, 2006
Filed in News

I discovered Instructables today. A web site for sharing ‘How To’ advice. Imagine if organisations had a similar capability. It is interesting how many entries …

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4 ways to use your time more effectively

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 18, 2006
Filed in Insight

Wherever I go I hear the same thing, “I’d love to do it, but we just don’t have enough time.” ‘It’ is anything they know …

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James Webb Young’s technique for producing ideas

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 16, 2006
Filed in News

Darren Woolley over at P3 put me onto this little book that was first published in the 1940s called A Technique for Producing Ideas. Here …

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What kind of facilitator are you?

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —November 14, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Collaboration

At the upcoming Australian Facilitators conference I’m looking forward to the “Facilitator Archetypes” workshop that I’m running alongside a great cartoonist, Simon Kneebone. This workshop …

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