Science telling stories
In the week of the Science Festival, I came across a great blog from Ines Cifuentes of the Amercian Geophysical Union who talks about the need for scientists to become storytellers. What does that mean? Instead of relying on giving out information, we have to use emotions, humor, visuals, anything and all to draw people [...]
Business Narrative Conference in Singapore
It is only 2 weeks until the Origins Asia Pacific Conference in Singapore and I am so lucky to be presenting at this event. This conference is part of the Singapore International Storytelling Festival and is organised by The National Book Development Council of Singapore. The aim of Origins is to foster the practice of [...]
C.H.O.O.S.E. Happiness
Last week I attended a three day positive psychology course run by Dr Timothy Sharp from The Happiness Institute. Now before you think I am going all ‘touchy and feely’ I want to reassure you that positive psychology is an academic discipline that focuses on what makes people ‘happy’, rather than the traditional approach of [...]
Knowledge and Information Framework and collaborative sharing space for Qld NRM
A new Knowledge and Information Framework outlining how regional natural resource management (NRM) knowledge and information needs across Queensland can be better managed has been released by the Regional Groups Collective (RGC), which represents the state-wide interests of the 14 regional NRM bodies in Queensland. To download the framework click here or visit the Collective [...]
How are you dealing with ‘information overload’?
There is so much talk of ‘information overload’ in our society. Are we really overloaded or are we over-consuming? I have been hearing about this concept for so many years now and I was fascinated by this blog posting by Clay Johnson which I fell across this week. Clay’s argument is that we are over-consuming [...]
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