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Workshop: Scientific Work — Colleagues & Networking

2012-12-08

Science is a human enterprise. You have to deal with colleagues and networking does have its uses. Here are valuable tips. Includes a few things about mobbing (yes, it happens in Academia as well).
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Holiday Season “Improve your workplace” Sessions

2012-12-05

An interesting holiday activity for organizations to use that special time of the year.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Requirements

2012-08-11

What are the requirements to work in science? They might not be that obvious -- here are some.
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That Typo

2012-08-01

If you like a book, give feedback. A semi-good example.
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Awesome Example of Kickstarter Funding — Or: When Geeks get a Budget

2012-07-16

Impressive example when skilled and determined people get some real funding.
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Learning about Work Methods for Doing Scientific Work

2012-07-15

How do you learn about work methods when you should actually doing the work? Some suggestions that involve workshops and workers and work profiles -- in short, work to make work work.
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Collaborative Editing of Text Documents (e.g., Project Proposals)

2012-06-19

Let's compare Word with Scrivener -- e.g., in terms of personal responsibility.
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The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.