Monthly Archives: March 2005

A Fable: The Migrating Chickadee

Posted on March 11, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The idea: A fable about uncertainty, and courage. For thousands of years the chickadee community of Albion had weathered the cold winters as all non-migrating birds in temperate climates do: They hid food (often tens of thousands of tree seeds … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Works | 4 Comments

How to Make Money Giving Stuff Away Free

Posted on March 10, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: Innovative companies are learning that giving something away free can be good for both the top and bottom line. Unscrupulous companies are abusing it. Oligopolies are wringing their hands and calling it theft, and the end of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 14 Comments

Creating a Post-Civilization Culture

Posted on March 9, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: Over the past two years I’ve been sharing my, and others’, ideas on a better way to live, and what needs to be done to get there. This article is an attempt to recap many of those articles, … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 5 Comments

More on The Cost of Not Knowing and Where KM is Going

Posted on March 8, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: A current state overview of KM, with particular emphasis on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and The Cost of Not Knowing. I had the great pleasure of speaking, alongside Howard Deane, CKO of KPMG Canada, with the students and … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 3 Comments

Telling a Story — with PowerPoint?

Posted on March 7, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The idea: If a story is a powerful way to inform, engage and bring about change, could the use of presentation graphics make the story into a ‘movie’, and hence make it richer and more powerful still? Cliff Atkinson’s new … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 7 Comments

Things Are the Way They Are for a Reason

Posted on March 6, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: Failure to learn and understand the often complex reasons for the status quo usually leads to simplistic, naive and unworkable solutions to problems.. Advocates of change, be they conservative war-mongers or progressives trying to redress atrocities at home … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 3 Comments

Weekend Reading

Posted on March 5, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Quite a few important new articles to bring to your attention this week, so I’ll keep the commentary brief: Politics: New Bush ‘Security’ Policy Threatens Firefighter & Citizen Safety: In its most paranoid move yet, Bush is planning to remove … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 3 Comments

The Long Tail: A-Listers Maybe Not So Powerful After All

Posted on March 4, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: Taking a closer look at the aggregate reader attention of the l-o-o-o-n-g tail of the blogosphere suggests the Power Law is missing something big. A number of readers asked me how I computed the data in my recent … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 7 Comments

Do One or Two Things Really Well

Posted on March 3, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: If you want to make a difference in this world, you need to know yourself, to perfect what you do well until you’re brilliant at it, to focus your energies, and to show others courageously that nobody does … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 12 Comments

Could Social Networking Save the World?

Posted on March 2, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The idea: Rob Paterson has penned a long and extraordinary article suggesting that social networking tools, building on a foundation of finding and connecting and relating tools including weblogs, could be used to cut out the corporate and government middlemen … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch, Using Weblogs and Technology | 11 Comments