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" Creative Commons provide free tools that let anyone easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry."

"Sloane MIT Review article"

"Prof Gary Hamel of Harvard Business School uses the metaphor of learning golf as a way of illustrating the futility of simply providing tools for innovation"

" interesting article looking at the impact on 'Getting Facebook ready for work' containing a number of useful links to other articles and blogs on the topic of social networking tools and their possible applications."

"correct url to link to Dr Basur's home page - to find out more about the profiling tool we'll be using at the workshop"

Productivity tool that allows you to eliminate distractions as you work. Currently only available for Mac. Thanks to Euan Semple for suggesting this.

Social search - is Google missing a trick?

Steve, have you tried Greplin and if so what's your experience? Does it negate the need for other search tools (I don't want a proliferation of search tools)? Does the indexing slow up your machine?

Gary, it does a better search of your social networks than Google, probably because you're giving it permission to index them. You still need a general search engine (such as Google) for the broader internet content. Indexing has no impact on your machine. I haven't used it long enough to determine whether or not it's features are useful enough to make it my first choice search engine for social media/social network content.

This tool automatically produces abstracts and keywords from text. Useful for knowledge elicitation transcripts etc.

" Useful for producing abstracts and keywords from interview transcripts"

The After Action Review (AAR) is a simple tool pioneered by the US army which is now widely used in organisations to capture lessons learned. It is a structured review after an activity or stage in a project, including handover or close, that analyses what happened, why it happened, and how it can be done better. The key to successful AAR's is that it helps you turn mistakes and poor performance into learning opportunities.

Nancy Dixon focuses on the people side of knowledge management. Our most effective knowledge sharing tool is conversation. The words we choose, the questions we ask, and the metaphors we use to explain ourselves, are what determine our success in creating new knowledge, as well as sharing that knowledge with each other.

During this innovative event, World Bank explores an internal report about 'How the Bank learns' allowing the audience to vote in real time on the top topics they want to explore using 'Poll everywhere'. We will be using this tool at the Autumn workshop.The Bank shares some thought provoking ideas on 'fast and slow thinking' and where individuals look for knowledge (video -12.15-15.15) as well as allowing participants to vote on a number of provocative statements on a five point scale, to decide choose five topics for discussion with the panel e.g. 'Drink more coffee', 'Learning from failure' and 'Taking time to reflect' (Poll results 27.30 - 30.30). Culminating in the panel discussion on the chosen topic areas including 'live questions' as the discussion develops (Panel discussion 30.30 - 1:14:00).The session is wrapped up with a final vote on the whole event (1:21:00)

Slack Made Easy is a unique online training experience. Because we use Slack as a delivery tool for you to learn to use Slack! This cuts the onboarding time to a fraction of what it usually is so your team will be up and running in no time.

One of the hottest tools in the market right now: Tableau.