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Changing Our Behaviour: The Role of Knowledge

October 6, 2021October 5, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 1155 Viewsbehaviour change, information overload, information technology, knowledge, podcast

To know is to do. This is an unspoken assumption behind much of what is written about change. If we

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Seeking simplicity among complexity? Go Dutch!

April 7, 2017April 8, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 1467 Viewsarchitecture, beauty, complexity, design, Dutch design, Holland, information design, information overload, information technology, innovation, organizational aesthetics, Steven De Groot, systems thinking, the Netherlands

In a world awash in content and the resulting complexity that comes when it all intersects the viable options for

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When More is Less: The Information Paradox

September 22, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 2189 ViewsBarry Schwartz, Bill Nye, complexity, decision making, design, health systems, healthcare, information technology, Louis C.K., mobile phones, patient engagement, psychology, science, sensemaking, systems thinking, Tony Schwartz

There is a point at which information ceases to increase knowledge and understand and begins to undermine it, creating a

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Frogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media

December 30, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 2008 Viewsblogging, 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

education & learning health

eHealth / mHealth And Privacy Will Never Coexist

August 21, 2010August 22, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 993 ViewseHealth, information technology, mhealth, mobile phones, privacy, security, social media

A recent podcast from Twist Image unleashed a whole line of thinking in me about privacy and our electronic tools and has led me to conclude that eHealth and privacy cannot and will not ever coexist.

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Libraries, Literacy and the Learning Imperative

January 9, 2010May 25, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 649 Viewseducation, information technology, learning, libraries, literacy

Libraries have an opportunity to advance literacy now as much as ever, but as some argue, the time has come to expand that mandate to helping people take the intellectual initiative.

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eHealth Deja Vu All Over Again

September 29, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 598 Viewseducation, eHealth, health behaviour change, health promotion, information technology, innovation, learning, public eHealth, public health, technology, tobacco control, Web-assisted tobacco interventions

It took more than 15 years for public eHealth approaches like using the Web for tobacco control to take hold, in large part because there wasn’t the ‘evidence’. In the age of social media, are we doomed to see history repeat itself? This post looks at how in the area of social media education and adoption, it’s deja vu all over again.

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eHealth and the Means-Ends Problem

September 19, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 650 ViewseHealth, Facebook, health behaviour change, information technology, innovation, organizational learning, psychology, Twitter

Information technology provides a lot of ideas for how to change, but the tools are only one part of the equation. Without considering the culture in which these tools are used the change we want will not be the change we get.

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e(un)Health

August 25, 2009August 25, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 712 Viewscommunication, eHealth, health, ICT, information overload, information technology, psychology, systems, time poverty, wellbeing

Is the ‘e’ part of eHealth working at cross purposes with our wellbeing? The speed, volume and complexity of information online and the myriad ways we access such information may be leading to new types of illnesses and problems as it solves others.