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We are proud to be an Event Partner for the 2010 South African Employer Branding Summit to be held at Deloitte, Johannesburg, South Africa on 23 March 2010. We invite you to join us and spend a day with 9 employer branding specialists including International Presenters from USA, UK and Australia to discover the value of building a sustainable business through employer branding strategies. Summit Chairman Brett Minchington MBA from Australia who has delivered employer branding events in 30 cities in 20 [...]

As part of the initiation of an impact assessment project, where we'll be using SenseMaker to monitor the way tertiary students progress towards graduation, we have been given a stack of reading as background and context. One of the quotes that has stood out so far is this: Conversations are the way workers discover what they know, share it with their colleagues, and in the process create new knowledge for the organisation. In the new economy, conversations are the most [...]

One of the most novel, if not THE most novel applications of narrative I've come across in the last few years is the work of internet-artistJonathan Harris. He has done some really amazing stuff with gathering stories on the web and rendering them as art projects. In particular, We Feel Fine is my personal favourite. It's an almanac of human emotion. By trawling the web for blog posts, images and videos associated with the words "I feel ...", Harris has managed to measure [...]

I like reading Bob Sutton's blog, he often links to books and writings I never would have known about if not for him.  This week, he wrote about Professor David Dunning from Cornell University, who's done some really interesting research (along with various colleagues) on self-awareness. Some interesting insights from the Professor's new book "Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself. " include:"people do a pretty bad job of guessing their IQ scores, are downright awful at rating their [...]