Shaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism
Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media is struggling to remain financially viable in a time when readership /...
View ArticleBringing Design into Developmental Evaluation
Designing Evaluation Developmental evaluation is an approach to understanding and shaping programs in service of those who wish to grow and evolve what is done in congruence with complexity rather than...
View ArticleBullying, the market for education and the damaged quest for learning
Dark classroom, light minds A recent study found looked into the experience of cyberbullying by university professors at the hands of their students. This disturbing phenomenon points to much larger...
View ArticleThe Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism
The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor science to point to a spurious connection between...
View ArticleThe Ecology of Innovation: Part 2 – Language
Idea Factories or ecologies of innovation? Although Innovation is about producing value through doing something new or different than before, the concept is far from simple when applied in practice by...
View ArticleBenchmarking change
The quest for excellence within social programs relies on knowing what excellence means and how programs compare against others. Benchmarks can enable us to compare one program to another if we have...
View ArticleHow do we sit with time?
Organizational transformation efforts from culture change to developmental evaluation all depend on one ingredient that is rarely discussed: time. How do we sit with this and avoid the trap of...
View ArticleLearning: Bites, Snacks, and Meals
Media communications is trending toward generating content in small forms. What does small ‘snackable’ content mean for learning big things? It’s back to school time in many parts of the world and...
View ArticlePresenting Tips for the Anxious Innovator
The opportunity to teach is a chance to influence others. Here’s some tips and tricks to make that moment better. Today we share some recent tips included in the latest Censemaking Innovation...
View ArticleConference Season Here Again: What Have We Learned?
The autumn tends to be a time when many organizations hold conferences and this year is no different. What is different is that we are now in hybrid modes and questions remain about what we’ve learned...
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