I am beginning to think “going to meetings” is my drug of choice! Here I am, yet again on an airplane heading home from another really exciting meeting that has my mind going in all sorts of directions. In this case, The CAPTURE Project partnered with Kerry Robinson and her crew in the Knowledge Development … Read the full post »
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The Canadian Evaluation Society has accepted an abstract by The CAPTURE Project to give a presentation as part of the 2010 Annual CES Conference being held at the Fairmont Empress Hotel and Victoria Conference Centre (Victoria, BC) from May 2 to 5, 2010. Entitled “If we build it will they come? A systems approach to … Read the full post »
Practitioners and program managers are often treated as if they exist in a knowledge desert where, if only we could get them some life sustaining knowledge resources, they might finally be able to thrive. It seems to me that things are more like a swamp. The advent of the internet and the tremendous leaps forward … Read the full post »
In my last blog, I waxed on about the virtues of partnership as a strategy for building a technological solution like The CAPTURE Project. The focus of my last blog was about the efficiencies one can gain by using other people’s “stuff” but this time around I would like to talk about quality and coherence… … Read the full post »
I have never thought of myself as a risk taker. I am most comfortable with a clear routine, a sense of control and I like to organize most everything from my household to my work plan. I have worked with both Diane and David before and although I do not consider myself to be a … Read the full post »
A few months ago, as we were going over the concept map clusters, I was introduced to a management model called “servant leadership”. The concept kept creeping up in team meetings and conversations. So before our fall consultative workshop, I did some quick online research to better understand its origins and how it has evolved … Read the full post »
I’m just back from too much travel and trying to clear up the email back-log. Seems a common theme among many of my colleagues these days……but I just watched the latest CAPTURE video and I’m all excited again about this challenge we have taken on, trying to build a system which will help us understand … Read the full post »
This past October, CAPTURE held a consultative workshop in Vancouver, British Columbia as a final step in its early planning and consultation phase. The workshop sought to obtain feedback on the design of the CAPTURE web-based platform and supportive system infrastructure and to develop relationships with key organizations and individuals who may use, build or … Read the full post »
Following the CAPTURE consultation at the National Collaborating Centre’s Summer Institute in July 2009, it was decided that we needed more input from the practitioner community to ensure the platform is designed in such a way that it works for its intended users. To supplement information gathered from a first series of key informant interviews … Read the full post »
In March 2009, The CAPTURE Project launched a concept mapping exercise as part of its initial engagement activities to obtain feedback from the chronic disease prevention community on the nature, elements and eventual design of the CAPTURE platform. What we did Using concept mapping methodology, we asked stakeholders to complete the following statement: “An element … Read the full post »
