Innovation at the speed of coffeeCensemakingJuly 2013

Designing for Empathy and Health

July 29, 2013July 29, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 375 Views anti-vaccination, design, design thinking, empathy, evidence, health, health communications, health literacy, Julie Leask, language, media, public health, qualitative research, Twitter, vaccination, wicked problems

When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The

journalism public health social media

Of digital riptides and original sin — was the decline of newspapers inevitable?

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 270 Views Clay Shirky, Clayton Christensen, disruption, disruptive innovation, Internet, Matthew Ingram, media, newspapers

Matthew Ingram does a good job of doing a retrospective on the state of newspapers and questioning the fit their

public health social media

Attack on Anti-vac – Toronto Public Health vs. Jenny McCarthy

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 333 Views anti-vaccination, evidence, health communications, health promotion, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Ghanie-Opondo, Penn and Teller, public health, science, social media, Toronto Public Health

Yesterday I posted on the story of Toronto Public Health tweeting a call for its followers to voice concerns to

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Public Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 546 Views Andre Picard, Cameron Norman, CENSE Research + Design, Globe and Mail, health communications, health promotion, Jenny McCarthy, journalism, knowledge transfer, Marshall McLuhan, media, media ecology, network theory, population health, public engagement, research, social media, social networks, Toronto, Toronto Public Health, Twitter, vaccination, youth

Public health is regrettably not a field that I often think of when I consider powerful examples of using social

psychology

Tips to Maximize Creativity at Work

July 23, 2013July 23, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 208 Views creativity, innovation

How to maximize the creative potential of what you do? Becoming good at something is a huge start. But what

public health

Low-profile public health job could mean best candidates won’t apply

July 20, 2013July 23, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 236 Views Canada, public health

If public health is important, should the presumably ‘top job’ in the field in a particular country not be highly

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Scaling Education: The Absurd Case of the MOOC

July 19, 2013July 19, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 422 Views culture, design thinking, education, educational design, Greece, higher education, innovation, learning, MOOC, research, scale, social innovation, teaching, Thomas Friedman, university

The MOOC offers enormous potential to re-shape the way people learn and promoting access to content and expertise that many in this world could have only dreamed of years ago. But the naivete that such learning can be done in an monocultural way without losing something special about the context in which people learn and use what they learn might lead to some expensive lessons.

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Mythmaking about speed and scale in social innovation

July 18, 2013September 4, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 369 Views Arab Spring, bureaucracy, complexity, contagion, epidemiology, innovation, Jenna Cullinane, Matthew Good, McKinsey & Company, patriarchy, Peter Block, Peter Drucker, scale, social change, social innovation, social systems, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Steve Davis

Yes, but does it scale? – Question asked at nearly every presentation on a social innovation ever made* It is

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The Developmental Evaluation and Design Imperative

July 15, 2013July 15, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 376 Views art, complexity, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, feedback, program planning, psychology, science, sensemaking, social innovation, strategic foresight, systems thinking

Developmental evaluation is an approach to evaluating programs that takes account of complexity and changing conditions, supports innovation, and serves

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Design / Time

July 11, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 345 Views architecture, Calgary, Calgary Flames, Canada, design, design charrette, design thinking, Finland, Helsinki, innovation, Italy, rapid prototyping, Rome, Saddledome, social innovation, sustainable development, Toronto

Design’s relationship with space is complex and well documented in the literature on architecture, interior design, and product innovation. The

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