Comments on: Reflecting on the “Narrating Your Work” Experiment

By: Relatar nuestro trabajo: lo importante pasa más allá del microblogging | Cartograf

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:43:06 +0000

[...] medio año que Hans de Zwart, Innovation Manager en Shell, reflexionó en su blog sobre un experimento que hizo con un equipo de 18 personas dispersas por el mundo. Quería [...]

By: Foden Grealy – Working Out Loud

Foden Grealy – Working Out Loud — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:44:52 +0000

[...] this fascinating case study from Hans de Zwart about experiments with narrating work in a 20-person team in [...]

By: Internet Time Alliance | Narration of Work

Internet Time Alliance | Narration of Work — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:32:37 +0000

[...] The narration of one’s work is an essential practice that enables this. Hans de Zwart discusses a narrating-your-work experiment that had a 17 member team use Yammer to share daily experiences with colleagues. He [...]

By: Bside » Tracking de proyectos utilizando aplicaciones de microblogging

Bside » Tracking de proyectos utilizando aplicaciones de microblogging — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:35:47 +0000

[...] algo vital para una organización. Me ha parecido especialmente interesante el experimento “narranting your work“. En él, 18 personas que forman parte de un proyecto (en este caso del mundo del software), [...]

By: Internet Time Alliance | Narration of Work

Internet Time Alliance | Narration of Work — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:28:08 +0000

[...] narration of one’s work is an essential practice that enables this. Hans de Zwart discusses a narrating-your-work experiment that had a 17 member team use Yammer to share daily experiences with colleagues. He [...]

By: Narrating your work: Arbeit erzählen – so funktioniert’s » imgriff.com

Narrating your work: Arbeit erzählen – so funktioniert’s » imgriff.com — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:31:25 +0000

[...] Performance von virtuellen Teams zu steigern. Nach einigen Monaten hat Hans den Versuch mit einer kleinen wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung beendet. Teamspirit und konkrete UnterstützungIm Durchschnitt haben die Mitarbeitenden pro Tag [...]

By: Bianka Hajdu

Bianka Hajdu — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:27:32 +0000

In a conversation, we remembered the good old mailing lists and found that they complement so nicely the public thinking and reflection in blogs. Ideal for sharing short private updates and getting fast responses from colleagues. A classic “community building” tool, I wonder why we don’t use it anymore. Because it’s not trendy? Anyway, your post was a great inspiration for this conversation we had.

By: Hans de Zwart

Hans de Zwart — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:24:04 +0000

Thank you for your comment! I think the main reason I didn’t ask people to start blogging is their time constraints. Reflection in a blog is incredible valuable but is also quite difficult for many people. I thought a solution that would have less barriers would be more fitting.

By: Bianka Hajdu

Bianka Hajdu — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:08:40 +0000

Hi Hans! Thank you for sharing your reflections. If the thinking-reflection part of the posts was one with the most added value, I wonder why not encourage these people to blog like you do, instead of using a tool which, because of its design, invites to do a Twitter-like, rapid and without-much-reflection type of sharing and connecting? Of course, that would lead inevitably to a less defined line between «work» and «life»…

By: Are you the education technology curator for your organisation? #curation » Cat's Pyjamas

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:12:29 +0000

[...] I was lucky enough to have a personal demonstration and discussion, but you can read all about his Narrating Your Work project on Hans’ [...]

By: The Narrating Your Work Experiment | Wide Teams

The Narrating Your Work Experiment | Wide Teams — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:05:39 +0000

[...] Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Netherlands License. It originally appeared here: http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2011/07/19/reflecting-on-the-narrating-your-work-experiment/) This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons [...]

By: Sunniva

Sunniva — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:16:58 +0000

Very good summary, Hans.

By: anoush

anoush — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:05:35 +0000

Interesting piece of work, Hans – thanks for sharing the summary. One of our PhD students here in the Caledonian Academy could further develop this work. We would be pleased to discuss/exchange ideas. Feel free to email me.

By: Rick Marriner

Rick Marriner — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:03:12 +0000

You’ve provided an excellent write up. I thought it was a good use of simple charts to illustrate data. Your conclusions coupled with vignettes from users was informative.

Looking back over one’s own yammer (or email or facebook or twitter) posts from time to time is a useful reflective exercise. I suspect the psychology of self-reporting and public observation would lead in some cases to people reporting what they want people to think they did vs. what they actually did. In that case, is there use in that?

I am having a hard time bridging the gap between the first stage of benefit (self reflection) with the second stage of benefit (group reflection).

Can you share more on your thoughts of how groups learn and benefit from “work narration”?