The post summarized why it may be important, best practices, and a few nonprofit examples.       One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the  Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. Encourages social content creation from network. Snap, Tag, and Share. MORE >>

Along the way, it provides useful coverage of topics like shared representations, process, and the value of project management. Also, despite not being academic, and admittedly also intended for academic designers as well as corporate, the examples appear to skew to the academic side. Bsed upon Jon’s Ph.D. design MORE >>

I’ve been wrestling with a thought lately – if organizations are complex systems, and complex systems are continuously self-organizing, then why do we believe formal processes make these complex systems more efficient? This is not the first paragraph to question process improvement, this is not some original Eureka moment.  MORE >>

In thinking about the benefits of adding social to formal learning for a presentation I’ll be giving, I realized that the main reason to extend social activities into formal learning is for the additional processing it provides.  While there is processing individually, social interaction provides more opportunities. MORE >>

The previous post, Exploring Processes , claimed that business processes are fundamentally social. from Chapter 2 of Smart Working: Creating the Next Wave: Weick tells us that the double interact is the stable component in organisational growth and decay, and that inter-locked behaviours are the elements that make up dynamic processes. MORE >>