Ok, a small additional riff on the theme of my earlier post. Katherine Stone wrote an interesting response giving some examples of personal experiences and stories having more power than fancy-schmancy advertising.
I think this ties in with Chris Anderson’s thoughts about the long tail… that it’s easy to underestimate the cumulative impact of small experiences.
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Richard Wiseman has a good article about the pyschological benefits of action over thinking, in particular when it comes to self-help. The gist is that instead of trying to think
Google Answers: quotation by Andrew Grove re: Christopher Columbus finding the new world Delightful on more than one level: Andy Grove at Intel when challenged about ROI suggests no one
Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » Students Helping Students (video) More inspired video storytelling from Michael Wesch (hat tip to Nancy White https://bit.ly/d0G3N3) (tags: flashmob ethnography video) My Police –
I was very impressed by Dr Ben Goldacre in this remarkable TV smackdown of Prof Susan Greenfield and Dr Aric Sigman’s sensational claims about Facebook rotting children’s brains. There’s even
