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Social Leadership: Communities and meaning
We don’t just belong to one community: in the Social Age, we belong to many. Maybe there was a time when we all lived in caves and gathered around campfires to skin mammoths, when we were constrained...
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Travelling to learn: reflection and narrative
After a long day of travelling, i’m home from Singapore, sat back in my local coffee shop, starting that sense making process that always follows a period of travelling: part reflection, part...
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How we arrived at Social Learning
Organisations are increasingly interested in the potential of social learning, recognising that it can greatly help individuals to make sense of new knowledge and skills and to effect real changes in...
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The death of the dinosaurs
Nothing lasts forever. Except possibly bad ideas, which can linger long after their sell by date. I was talking to someone earlier about how we work: remotely, on agile technology, collaborating in...
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The first life on earth. A book by Me
The desire to curate content and share stories is strongMy first book was an adventurous tome, not a story about goblins or spiders, no Teletubbies or Tank Engines, no, my first book was no less than...
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Miley Cyrus vs Sinead O’Connor: feminism, mental health and the ecosystem of...
© Dionne Williams 2013, used with permissionYou may have seen this saga playing out: Miley Cyrus is a former Disney sweetheart, reinvented as raunchy teen seductress, selling records and generating...
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On the fifth day of Christmas Learning: Social Learning
Social Learning is always and inherently within our communities: it’s about creating meaning, about sharing stories, about being more effectiveI’m dedicating the last twelve days of writing to a series...
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Making Connections: creating meaning
I’m sat in the transit lounge of Singapore airport, on my way to Manila, so making a connection in a very literal sense. I wrote a book in Singapore in 2012, called ‘Learning, Knowledge and Meaning‘....
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The Concentration of Meaning: Birth of the Social Age
It’s largely a matter of concentration: not thinking harder but rather a greater aggregation of knowledge and resources. Trace the journey of ‘sense making‘. At first, we had to use our own senses:...
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Rituals, Artefacts, and the Cohesive Forces of Community
When i met with Valerie yesterday, she gave me a gift: a small wooden pebble, decorated with some indigenous art, inscribed with the word ‘vision’. She gave different pebbles to other people, each...
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