Getting Things Done

Who doesn’t want to get things out of their mailbox and off their to do lists, get rid of them? Simply, getting them done? Luckily, there is a guru who can show the way: David Allen developed the very successful concept of Getting Things Done, which has become so popular that GTD is now almost a common household brand. Just Google a bit and you will find more links than [full post]

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Yammer

If you need to collaborate in a closed group with members that are not sharing an office, you might like to try out Yammer. I started experimenting with Yammer recently in the frame of a curriculum on Social Media for Learning & Change in Organisations. In the short time I have been using it I have found it a very useful and easy-to-use tool. In Yammer you can set up [full post]

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Sticky Wall

It looks like just a nice blue-coloured piece of cloth that is sticky on one side. You tape it to a wall with the sticky side on the front, and there you are. Well, not quite. It’s a tool that has never let me down so far. So what’s so special about it? First of all, the sticky wall is a tool used in the Technology of Participation (ToP), as [full post]

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Shadow Reports

What is a shadow report? Who takes the trouble to make one and why would they do that? To start with the most important question according to Simon Sinek, why; NGOs and networks do this because they want to make this world a better place. They want to help improve laws, policies and their implementation and enforcement. The form they use in this case, the how, is that of a [full post]

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