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Dying of Despair
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A Better Way to Work
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No Use to the World Broken
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Saturday Links of the Week: September 27, 2008, and AFK Notice
Cartoon by Tab in the Calgary Sun, from the Cagle site. Thanks to Rob Paterson for the link. Project 10 to the 100th: Google is offering $10 million for the top ideas that help people help other people, in these … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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CCK08 Week Three: Eight Important Questions About Learning and Connection
Week 3 of the CCK08 Connectivism MOOC is principally about network theory. I’ve written a bit about this, notably about network analysis (Rob Cross) and network mapping (Valdis Krebs, who was this week’s ‘virtual guest lecturer’). All week I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Facilitation, Objectivity, Worldviews, Innovation and Coping with Complex Problems
I‘m on my way from San Jose to Vancouver and thence to Bowen Island for a course on The Art of Hosting (a collection of event facilitation and problem-solving methodologies). Despite the fact that Open Space, one of those methodologies, … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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KMW08 — Greetings, Thanks, Request, and Animal Tales
Greetings to visitors to HtStW from KMWorld & Intranets 2008 in San Jose, where I presented yesterday on From Content to Context and From Collection to Connection, a discussion of how Knowledge Management is evolving with the astonishing help of … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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The Pursuit of Happiness
My well-being mindmap, based on self-management actions I took after contracting chronic ulcerative colitis in 2006 On Saturday I pointed you to an old (2001) article by John Perry Barlow on the foolishness of our relentless pursuit of happiness — … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Saturday Links of the Week: September 20, 2008
The End of Free Markets and the US Dollar This has been the first week in seven years that the mainstream media have actually been reporting important news. The top news, of course, is that greed and incompetence in the … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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CCK08 Week Two: Expectations of a Course on Learning, and Thoughts About How We Learn
THE NEW ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (& ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING) IMPROVING PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY ïFacilitating PCM: helping people to self-find, self-filter, self-publish, self-subscribe, and self-organize ëstuffí ïTeaching research skills: methods, not tools IMPROVING CONNECTION ïFacilitating conversations: with new simple, real-time connectivity tools … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Suppose
You wake up tomorrow and discover that all the hydrocarbons in the world — all the oil, gas and coal — have vanished. Evaporated. Crumbled into dust and blown away. Since it’s dark, you have to stumble around looking for … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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The Transition Town Phenomenon
My publisher, Chelsea Green, is the North American distributor for Rob Hopkins’ book The Transition Handbook, which explains the Transition Town phenomenon and how you can make your community a Transition Town. The idea of Transition Towns is radical relocalization … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Herd Mentality
Image of stampede from this Yorkshire UK site In times of great uncertainty, most people look for a leader to tell them what they should do, or for an agent to do it for them. It would be hard to … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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