What we are readingThanks to Maxim’s comment on our about page I just discovered the following video. It is about education and the way we structure learning. Working for a research institute and more generally in an industry the main product of which is knowledge, all these same points apply to the creative potential of our organizations as [...]
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The purpose of this post is to share with you three lessons we wish someone had told us a year ago. But then again, what’s the point of teaching if you don’t learn something for yourself?
Last summer, some colleagues at IFPRI and I decided to begin offering a series of weekly trainings aimed at teaching [...]
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Looks like flooding our colleagues with information about new ways of working together is showing effect. More and more of them are asking for help to improve the way they share information and to take down the email and network drive silos we have been building up over the years.
Several projects are trying to deal [...]
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Two days ago Chris Brogan finished a series of 5 posts on tips of how organizations can start to use social media. After starting with a introductory post he talked about Listening, Blogging, Audio and Video, and Social Networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
To me this series presents a great starting point for those curious [...]
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Last week I read two (German) articles on the social web taking very different positions: Christian at crisscrossed.net published an article about “Das Netz der Ideen” (The Net of Ideas) in Internationale Politik, in which he talks about the positive learning effects the social web can have for development cooperation. The newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung published [...]
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Do you factcheck news stories that confirm your beliefs?
Environmental Graffiti posted an interesting story about a hoax written by Mark Twain in 1862 about the discovery of a petrified man. The story was widely copied and reprinted even though basic facts were evidently wrong.
Why am I sharing this? Besides being amusing, I think it teaches a valuable lesson about our predisposition to accept [...]
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