Software Dams and recipient participation
There once was a time that international development was all about big capital projects, building dams and the likes. Times change, now the focus is on eliminating poverty; DFID “focus [their] aid on...
View ArticleSystem Obituary
Talking about workshop icebreakers with Prashant and here’s an idea: participants write their own tombstone or obituary. “Here lies Jack. A life spent comparing numbers on an excel spreadsheet”…. You...
View ArticleIt’s how you ask it…
You’re running a workshop and the group have come up with a bunch of new propositions. You want them to vote on which ones to take forward to the next stage. Or maybe you’ve identified a bunch of...
View ArticleVersion control
Tortoise Subversion is a simple and elegant tool for version controlling files. It is generally used on software development projects; it would be interesting to know how widespread it’s use is outside...
View ArticleCutting waste: dump PowerPoint and invest in a camera
So you’ve run a workshop and generated ideas. There’s a list of points on the flipchart and diagrams on the whiteboard. What now? Write it all up in Word or commit the drawings to PowerPoint? Stop! Ask...
View ArticleBeginners guide to social networking
So Jeremiah Owyang is on Twitter Hiatus as he evaluates how he uses social technologies. One of the tools he points to is FriendFeed. FriendFeed certainly aggregates your on-line social activity, but...
View ArticleWhat would Sally do? Personas for retail financial services
Personas are ‘pen portraits’ that bring to life users or customers of a system, service or product. Giving a personality and back story to your customers helps keep your thinking true to their real...
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