I often have a “deer in the headlight&# look when someone asks me about evaluating communities of practice. think that is because I have some stereotype in my head about evaluation. But in fact, when I let my common sense kick in, I know of and use many evaluation approaches. guess I never called them “evaluation approaches.&# MORE >>

I was contacted this morning about doing a presentation on an old post of mine, " On Becoming a More Reflective Individual Practitioner ," so I re-read what I'd written back in 2008. One paragraph I quoted in the post really stood out for me. Certain kinds of experiences create particularly powerful opportunities for learning through reflection.  MORE >>

A friend pointed me to this New Yorker cartoon on change management. It says, "We're ready to begin the next phase of keeping things exactly the way they are.". It's exactly the kind of wry humor that belongs in The New Yorker. Of course, it also points to the reality of many organizations. culture changemanagement humor newyorker MORE >>

The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project aimed "to understand how students do research, and how relationships between students, teaching faculty and librarians shape that process": there was also a particular focus on use and conceptions of the library. and Asher, A. ALA Editions. 2011) What students don't know. MORE >>

Tomorrow morning I will give the keynote at Mainstreet Australia conference on the topic of Creating the Future of Business. My slides are below. The usual caveat applies – the slides are designed to accompany my presentation and not to stand alone. Keynote: Creating the Future of Retail Spaces. View more presentations from rossdawson. MORE >>