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Change and Trust

February 7, 2020February 7, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1287 Views behaviour change, behavioural science, community psychology, design, habit, minimum viable product, neuroscience, psychology, social change, social innovation, social media, social psychology

Big change might come from small actions and the trust-building that comes from making those actions visible. Here’s how to make a big difference as one person.

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Amplification and Impact

December 5, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 557 Views 5G technology, AI, business, change, communication, complexity, data, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, feedback, innovation, learning, marketing, marketing complexity, mobile phones, Pareto distribution, Peloton, sensemaking, social media, technology, transformation

Transformations are easier to understand retrospectively, not in real time. New technologies are about to upend that, forever. It is

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Innovation to Your Inbox

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 473 Views communication, design, design thinking, evaluation, innovation, marketing, newsletter, organizational change, psychology, social media, strategic foresight, systems thinking

Of the many ways to reach people, email still works. Sometimes innovation is best doing new things with old tools.

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Learning: Bites, Snacks, and Meals

September 4, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 538 Views Chris Brogan, communications, education, knowledge translation, learning, media, publishing, social media, teaching, technology

Media communications is trending toward generating content in small forms. What does small ‘snackable’ content mean for learning big things?

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The logic of a $1000 iPhone

September 12, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 516 Views Apple, foresight, handset, iPhone, social media, society, technology, trends

Today Apple is expected to release a new series of iPhone handsets with the base price for one set at

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Decoupling creators from their creations

June 1, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 371 Views attention, creativity, creators, evaluation, innovation, innovation ecosystem, learning, organizational mindfulness, social innovation, social media

The world is transformed by creators — the artists, the innovators, the leaders — and their creations are what propel change

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My troubled relationship with social media

April 1, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 626 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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Collective action, impact, intelligence & stupidity

February 4, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 328 Views Arab Spring, brainstorming, cognitive science, collective action, collective impact, complexity, decision making, design, Egypt, Ethan Zuckerman, evaluation, Hossein Darakhshan, Ken Blanchard, MIT Media Lab, Occupy movement, politics, psychology, social innovation, social laboratories, social media, Wael Ghonim, Winston Churchill

Collective impact is based largely on the concept that we can do more together than apart, which holds true under

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Mental health: talking and listening

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 491 Views Canada, design, emergence, mental health, Paul Antrobus, psychology, social media, wellbeing

Innovation might be doing things different to produce value, but there’s little value if we as a society are not

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Frogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media

December 30, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 665 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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