Archive for March, 2008

Stories make the best rides

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 27, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Yesterday my family and I spent the day at Movie World. At the end of the day we went to an Irish pub for dinner …

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Making sense of history

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 25, 2008
Filed in Communication

I am reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I enjoyed his description of how history is extremely opaque; how “you see what comes …

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Graphic Facilitation 101

Posted by  Daryl Cook —March 25, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

I’ve been following Nancy’s visual and graphic facilitation work with interest for a while now, and inspired by a recent conversation with her, decided to …

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Shawn has opened up his Twitter

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 21, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

I’ve decided to open up my Twitter so anyone can follow my tiny tweets. Before I only let the Anecdote team follow alog but I …

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Grasping the truth requires more than science

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 19, 2008
Filed in Communication

I’ve just started to read Otto Scharmer’s book, Theory U, and this passage grabbed my attention. Twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle. arguably the greatest pioneer …

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How stories create culture

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 17, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

It’s said that stories create cultures; they propagate the assumptions and beliefs throughout the group in question. But it is specifically stories that create culture …

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Being healthy in Canberra

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 12, 2008
Filed in Collaboration, Events

One of our dear friends, Amanda Horne, is on a mission to improve the well being of Canberra residents. As a Canberran now living in …

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KM Australia is coming

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 12, 2008
Filed in Strategy

This year I will be speaking at KM Australia in two capacities: running a workshop on knowledge strategy, and speaking with Greg Marsh from BAE …

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Collaboration consulting—fostering a collaboration culture

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 9, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Have you invested in the latest and greatest in collaboration technology but still feel people are still not collaborating? How many Microsoft Sharepoint servers and …

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Community of Practice success story

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 9, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

One of the best ways to illustrate the value of Community of Practice efforts is to find stories of success and to use them. We …

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