To what extent does the physical environment in which we undertake a task (hold a meeting, run a workshop, write a paper), affect the outcome of that activity? Does working in a small room, with glass walls – that you can write on – make for a better planning workshop?! I ask these questions as … Read more
This is the second post in a series which explores the National Monographs Strategy project principles in some detail. My colleague Ben Showers described the principles in brief in an earlier post. Realising benefits is our sixth principle, but as you will see it is closely related to some of the other principles. Principle … Read more
If September was a month for contemplating, and getting under the skin of problems, then October was a month for reveling in the possibility of solutions: Of ideas. The second NMS workshop focused on beginning to sketch out potential solutions to some of the problem statements that had been developed and refined in the September workshop. … Read more
Today I presented an open webinar on the project and thought I’d share the recording of the presentation (it’s a blackboard collaborate recording and lasts about 30 mins in total and approx., 15 minutes for the actual presentation). Below are the slides I used (they’re also embedded in the recording). Read more
The NMS team recently met to begin trying to refine and rationalise the problem statements that came out of our September experts workshop. We posted all the problem statements in a recent post and also added them to an Ideascale site to enable people to vote on their priority ones. So, here is our attempt to refine some of … Read more
The project recently held its first expert workshop to explore the monographs problem space. With this first workshop we wanted to begin surfacing as many of the possible problems that the monograph strategy might need to address – the project tried not to constrain the discussions or problem statements too much; at this stage we … Read more
Warning: This post is largely an excuse to post a few photos of elaborate post-it note creations! The NMS team (and our collaborators at LiveWork) recently spent a day thinking about the various stakeholders that are affected by the project and its aim to develop a national strategy for the collection, preservation and digitisation of … Read more