Our finances are a mess – could behavioral science help clean them up? - http:/
The Power Of Civil And Intelligent Debate To Make Us All Better - http:/
Do you know what satisficing is? I didn't until a few days ago. - https:/
Building Adaptive Communities through Network Weaving | Nonprofit Quarterly
by Valdis Krebs from 2005
Knoco stories: How to build trust in a community of practice - http:/
Reading scientific papers is a skill that needs to be developed through practice
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jtleek/readingpapers: A guide to reading scientific papers
The academic paper is still the primary way of distributing new knowledge to the world. There are other ways too, with code, or blogs, or twitter. But academic papers are still the gold standard and where the vast majority of new scientific discoveries are reported.
I like that this is published on GitHub - if the author got something wrong or missed something, fork it and issue a pull request!
via @kjeannette - What's stopping communities from developing in your organization. #netlit
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Six Obstacles To Building Communities In Organizations
I've encountered, or been a part of, all six obstacles described in this article:
- Proliferating Platforms
- The “Bottom-Up” Approach
- Policy-Driven Paralysis
- Collaboration Conundrum
- Leadership Detachment
- Dearth of Digital Skills
My sense is that people just want a tool (a magic wand) to drive collaboration within the organization, without understanding the change in mindset and culture that is necessary for success.
Want to improve motivation? Try this reward - http:/
Host Synchronous Video Chats with Blab – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Is A “High” Bounce Rate Always Bad? Plus: How To Improve Bounce Rates
If the first page is "good enough," do you really expect people to browse?
