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Monitoring, Principles and Impotent Strategy

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 598 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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My troubled relationship with social media

April 1, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 1368 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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Shaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism

September 10, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 854 Views AOL, complexity, developmental evaluation, digital economy, dominant design, emergence, Harvard University, innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, knowledge translation, media, New York Times, newspapers, Nieman Journalism Lab, path dependency, public policy, publishing, resilience, resiliency, science, social media, systems thinking, The Joan Shorenstein Center, transmedia, Twitter

Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media

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Designing for Empathy and Health

July 29, 2013July 29, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 762 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

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Public Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1113 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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Social Media and the Changing Role of Journalists Covering It

October 13, 2012October 13, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 571 Views Facebook, Jack Dorsey, journalism, Mark Zuckerberg, OM Malik, social media, technology, Twitter

Om Malik from Giga OM writes today about the changing role of media and how the new media is transforming

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The Business Model of Social Media: Who Owns the Presses?

October 1, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 584 Views advertising, business model, capitalism, Facebook, innovation, Karl Marx, marketing, markets, social media, socialism, Twitter

When Karl Marx asked: Who owns the presses? he was referring to the ability of wealthy private individuals to control the means of knowledge production and dissemination and thus, influence society as capital owners, not as citizens. The unequal voice of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat was what gave them undue social power. But what happens when the owners and generators of wealth (knowledge, information) shift and the result is a community that relies on the medium of production without the control of it?

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