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Monitoring, Principles and Impotent Strategy

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 345 Views evaluation, Facebook, Michael Quinn Patton, monitoring and evaluation, principles, principles-focused evaluation, sensemaking, social media, strategy, Twitter, United States

Without connecting monitoring of our programs with our principles and strategy, we are simply creating impotency in our organizations. The

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Design | Sprint

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 432 Views agile, design research, design sprint, design thinking, Facebook, human-centred design, innovation, kevin richard, Mark Zuckerberg, service design, speed, time

Design sprints are created for technical systems, not human ones. We need better research and attention to human-centred principles if we are to achieve the aims of rapid innovation in a responsible manner.

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Transformation and Innovation

May 30, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 917 Views aesthetics, AI, change, Charles and Ray Eames, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, Facebook, innovation ecosystem, Instagram, Jaron Lanier, Living History, Marshall McLuhan

Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring and

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Genetic engineering for your brand

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 997 Views addiction, behaviour change, brand, business, business model, DNA, emotion, emotional baggage, epigenetics, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, marketing, organizational psychology, psychology, system dynamics, systems science

DNA doesn’t predetermine our future as biological beings, but it does powerfully influence it. Some have applied the concept of ‘DNA’

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My troubled relationship with social media

April 1, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 1060 Views Clay Shirky, Douglas Rushkoff, Facebook, Instagram, journalism, LinkedIn, mental health, mindfulness, Pinterest, psychology, social media, social networks, technology, Twitter, YouTube

Do you care about donuts? I did, once. I’m not so sure anymore. I used to love donuts, was passionate

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Frogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media

December 30, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 1224 Views blogging, climate change, complexity, design, Facebook, Hossein Darakhshan, information design, information literacy, information technology, ISIS/ISIL, journalism, obesity, politics, social media, social networks, systems thinking, terrorism, wicked problems

Our information landscape has been compared with our diets providing an ample opportunity to compare what we ‘consume’ with how

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Social innovation, social inclusion

August 27, 2015August 28, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 795 Views Apple, culture, design, Facebook, gender, innovation, Silicon Valley, social innovation, social media

Social innovation is about bringing new ideas, products and services out into society with others for social benefit and improving

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The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 662 Views CDC, Clay Shirky, complex systems, contemplative inquiry, design thinking, Facebook, John Bohannon, journalism, metacognition, mindfulness, mobile phones, organizational change, public health, research, resilience, science, social media, systems thinking, The Economist, tribes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zombie

Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.

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