Reaching out to communities can be a powerful way to find talent or resources. Your personal network may take a while to find the right person or file, especially if key people are unavailable. If you ask the right community, though, you might be able to.
Topics: adoption, communities, connections, enterprise2.0, pattern, social

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Dark blazers are a newbie facilitator’s friend. No one could see me perspire as I wondered what to do. My session wasn’t working. The exercise structure I picked didn’t fit the energy and interest of the room. I needed to improvise. Fortunately, my.
Topics: consulting, facilitation, ibm, learning, workshop

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Text:Drawing by Seeing (John Torreano) made me think about drawing in a completely different way. Instead of starting with a line that gets distorted because you can’t see properly and that makes you run out of space because you hadn’t planned for...
Topics: book, life, reading, reflection, sketches

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I have a confession to make: I stalk the Toronto Public Library. The library publishes a list of new acquisitions online every 15th of the month. And every 15th of the month, I check out the new releases for business and other topics I’m interested,...
Topics: learning, library

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The more I draw, the easier and more fun it gets.I helped facilitate a client workshop last week. During one of the exercises, the lead facilitator took notes on an easel. I needed to make a copy of the notes so that we could build on the results in a...
Topics: consulting, sketches

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