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Ties That Bind and Release Innovation

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 732 Views brainstorming, collaboration, design thinking, ideas, innovation, social networks, technology, workplace

Remote working tools for collaboration can shape our culture of innovation or we can shape the tools themselves, the choice is ours, by design.

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Systems Thinking and Networks

March 20, 2020July 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1240 Views complexity, covid-19, design, network theory, public health, social networks, systems thinking

The most visible systems lesson from virus spreads are related to networks if we know how to see them. In

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Complex problems and social learning

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 1174 Views education, goals, groups, knowledge exchange, knowledge management, learning, learning organization, organizational development, organizational learning, social, social networks

Adaptation, evolution, innovation, and growth all require that we gain new knowledge and apply it to our circumstances, or learn.

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The more we get together

June 18, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 496 Views complexity, diversity, Donald Trump, England, Ethan Zuckerman, journalism, Marshall McLuhan, media, media ecology, Nicholas Carr, Robin Dunbar, social networks, technology, United Kingdom, United States

As we forge ever-greater connections online to each other and the world of ideas the thinking was that we would

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My troubled relationship with social media

April 1, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 1188 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 1370 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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Public Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1020 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

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Complexity and the Senseless Marketing of the Future

July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 691 Views climate change, complex adaptive systems, complexity, environment, FastCoExist, foresight, futurists, innovation, marketing, marketing complexity, mindfulness, networks, Pareto distribution, resilience, simplicity, social networks, systems thinking

Futurists take what we know now and project into the future ideas about things will be like years from today

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Wet and Dry Design for Social Innovation

May 28, 2012May 28, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 630 Views boundaries, change, change leadership, complex systems, complexity, design, design thinking, emergence, Facebook, innovation, leadership, learning, scale, self-organization, social innovation, social networks

Create systems that are too bounded (dry) and we risk sucking the moisture from the human elements (the wet) that make real social innovation happen. Our challenge is finding the right balance between the controlled, stable environments that these new technologies afford and the self-organized, emergent and innovative environments needed to implement and scale our initiatives more effectively.

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Common Sense, Complexity and Leadership

January 23, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 879 Views common sense, complexity, decision making, developmental design, Duncan Watts, evaluation, leadership, social networks, strategy, systems thinking

By recognizing that common sense is less than common and is certainly not consistent, program designers, developers, evaluators and other professionals will be better positioned to provide true leadership that addresses challenges and complexity rather than adds to the complexity and creates more problems.

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