Cognitive Videos

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/27/The_Tyranny_of_E-mail_John_Freeman John Freeman describes the psychology behind compulsive email checking. He explains that the neurological effects of constantly checking your inbox are similar to those of playing a slot machine. "Rather than reward an action every time it is performed, you reward it sometimes, but not in a predictable way," he says. ----- John Freeman talks about The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox. The former president of the National Book Critics Circle and current American Editor of Granta, gives us a history of people's need for correspondence. He examines the astonishing growth of e-mail -- how it is changing lives, and not always for the better. - Book Passage John Freeman is Acting Editor of Granta Magazine. As American editor of Granta, he has gone around the country visiting M.F.A. programs and English departments telling aspiring writers about his magazine, giving out discounted subscriptions and encouraging everyone to submit their work.

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This speeded up 2 minute video with a tabla drums soundtrack covers a 2 1/2 hour workshop with ancedote circles, tagging of anecdotes by participants, clustering of tags, and production of theme statement and archetypes. This techniques is a modified Cognitive Edge facilitation technique developed by Dave Snowden for getting insights into the emergent perspectives of a group. It is designed to disrupt dominant perspectives shaping the output, and to allow groups to interpret their own narrative material. We use this technique eg in organisation culture analysis, in customer perception analysis, in programme evaluation.

Observing Life, Dumpin Punkins, Smell of Doom, Driving Bad, the Teapot Effect, Ancient Blasts, Demoting Dinosaurs, Fishy Movements, The Minion Mailbag, and Much More!

This speeded up 2 minute video covers a 2 1/2 hour workshop with ancedote circles, tagging of anecdotes by participants, clustering of tags, and production of theme statement and archetypes. This techniques is a modified Cognitive Edge facilitation technique developed by Dave Snowden for getting insights into the emergent perspectives of a group. It is designed to disrupt dominant perspectives shaping the output, and to allow groups to interpret their own narrative material. We use this technique eg in organisation culture analysis, in customer perception analysis, in programme evaluation.

This video was made for the Cognitive Edge network as a mini-case study of using narrative techniques. It describes an iKMS (www.ikms.org) project to develop a self-development competencies framework for knowledge managers in Singapore. We started with anecdote circles to collect stories of knowledge manager experiences, and from them and prior research on typical KM roles the participants built archetypes. Knowledge managers susbsequently built "competency wheels" for each archetype using Dave Snowden's ASHEN framework as a base. The research was conducted by Awie Foong for iKMS, directed and supported by Patrick Lambe, and will be published by iKMS in October 2008.