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The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book! Learning and Social Media
The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book! Is this a library or a graveyard? P.S. Where's the power outlet? I found myself in a strange situation the other day: I was listening to a podcast of a panel of...
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eHealth and the Trust Factor
In eHealth we trust? Today it was reported that the Ontario Minister of Health has resigned, presumably on the wake of the eHealth scandal (which I discuss in an earlier post) that engulfed the current...
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Amazing Stuff: November 14th Edition
It’s been another busy week filled with lots of ideas, but little time to post them. Expect a lot more on the blog in the coming weeks however as there is too much going on not to discuss. Thankfully,...
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The Genius of Seth Godin
In his new book, Linchpin, businessman, marketer, blogger, auteur Seth Godin asks the question: Are you indispensible? Seth, if you don’t know, is a genius. On the first page of Lynchpin he describes...
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Jaron Lanier and Dominant Design
What happens when the system of innovation that serves us so well provides the very means of hindering creativity and limiting our potential? That is a process that Jaron Lanier calls”Lock in” and it...
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Is Simplicity the Antidote to Complexity?
Taken by by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ and posted to Flickr. Used under Creative Commons Licence One of the questions on my mind lately has been “can we reduce complexity?”. I’m not alone. Indeed,...
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Rethinking the Relationship Between Simplicity, Complexity and Knowledge
Today I continue to look at the concept of simplicity and its relationship to complexity by focusing on the work of John Maeda, designer, artist and president of the Rhode Island School of Design....
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Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health
Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health A brilliant and comprehensive new book has been launched that brings together the best scholars working in the area of systems thinking and complexity and...
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Design Space in Public Health
If design is everywhere humans are and shapes our interactions in the built environment, which dictates how we interact with the world around us should it not be considered important enough to be a...
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Reading it Later: Om Malik Reflects
Cameron D. Norman:Giga OM founder and prolific reader Om Malik posted a reflection on his reading habits on his blog that got me thinking about the way we consume, rate and appreciate content online....
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Do you value (social) innovation?
Do You Value the Box or What’s In It? The term evaluation has at its root the term value and to evaluate innovation means to assess the value that it brings in its product or process of development....
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Asking Better and More Beautiful Questions
Beautiful answers require beautiful (and better) questions and Warren Berger’s new book looks at this very phenomenon of inquiry and asks: What does it mean to ask better questions and what does that...
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Jaron Lanier and Dominant Design
What happens when the system of innovation that serves us so well provides the very means of hindering creativity and limiting our potential? That is a process that Jaron Lanier calls”Lock in” and it...
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Is Simplicity the Antidote to Complexity?
Taken by by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ and posted to Flickr. Used under Creative Commons Licence One of the questions on my mind lately has been “can we reduce complexity?”. I’m not alone. Indeed,...
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Rethinking the Relationship Between Simplicity, Complexity and Knowledge
Today I continue to look at the concept of simplicity and its relationship to complexity by focusing on the work of John Maeda, designer, artist and president of the Rhode Island School of Design....
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A Beautiful Idea
Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our work lives the most neglected and maybe necessary might be described that one word: it’s time...
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Behavioural Design, Attention & Change
Pay attention to what you’re paying attention to How do we design for attention in a distracted world? Nir Eyal has some answers to provide the focus we need. Behavioural designer Nir Eyal has spent...
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Beautiful Innovation
In building or remaking our work, organizations, and communities, beauty has never been more relevant. At a time when governments and organizations of nearly every type worldwide seek to plan for...
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Innovation and Maintenance: A Book Review
Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell are leading voices in arguing for a bigger place for maintaining things in this world in our culture, not just for creating or innovating. In The Innovation Delusion what...
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