Year: 2015
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Brain power
Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims
How can non-scientists judge the scientific claims they are confronted with? They can use these twenty tips to develop "interpretive…
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Systems & complexity
How do groups make decisions?
A recent study from Carnegie Mellon used the animal kingdom to try and shed some light on collective decision making.
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Community
Why do people make bad decisions?
Seth Godin makes useful points about the factors which can cause us to make bad decisions (and which, from the…
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Tools & methods
Improve your data collection
Socialcops have just released an excellent eBook, The Ultimate Guide to Effective Data Collection. It provides short, sharp, and practical advice…
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ABCs of KM
Educating Knowledge Managers series: Introduction
Editor’s note: In 2007, Andre Saito published a PhD proposing a model of knowledge management competence which could be used as the…
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In the news
New KM101 training course in Melbourne
If you live in Melbourne and are committed to improving your ability to effectively apply Knowledge Management, you are in luck. Not only…
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Brain power
The myth of the mad genius: Mental illness and creativity
Mental illness and creativity, including enhanced performance such as high IQ, have often been linked. But is there really evidence…
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In the news
For the first time ever, the Word of the Year is not actually a word
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is not a word. For the first time ever, it’s an emoji…
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Tools & methods
How machines learn, and how that can help us
You’ve probably heard people talk about about machine learning and its importance. But do you really know what it is,…