Hindawi Journal Development Handbook
At the beautiful Hindawi Publishing London office, a group committed colleagues came to together to write the Journal Development Handbook. The outcome of this Sprint was not only a book, but also a book website.
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Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction
Human Centered Data Science was written by five authors in a five day Book Sprint and is now published by MIT Press. The Book Sprint was hosted in 2020 at the University of Washington in Seattle with a small team ... read more
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Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, & Optimism
In the heat of summer in Detroit, six authors sat in a downtown hotel conference room looking out over the city, and musing on the digital today. Headed by Lisa Nakamura from Michigan University, The Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, & ... read more
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Sprinting again with the University of Hawai’i at Manoa: Anatomy and Physiology II
It has been exactly one year since we wrote the first part of the OER Anatomy and Physiology textbook in a Virtual Book Sprint with the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 2021 . This year, ten faculty members from ... read more
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Back in San Jose for Cisco Software-Defined Access for Industry Verticals
Only three months after our last Book Sprint on Cisco’s AI-driven approach to Digital Transformation, we had the pleasure of returning again to the Cisco Campus in San Jose, California in July 2022. A dedicated and diverse group of 14 ... read more
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The Craft of Systems Change
WWF recently published the second book in the series “The Art and Craft of Systems Change“, facilitated by Book Sprints and written by a group of dedicated, knowledgable authors from the field of nature conservation and systemic change. The book ... read more
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New Hiring
A group of authors and editors came together for a Book Sprint at the Hamburg office of New Work SE (the company behind the German career network XING), to write a book on New Hiring.
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At Cisco Campus for sprinting Cisco DNA Center – AIOps
After a series of virtual Book Sprints with Cisco over the last two years, we had the pleasure of returning to the Cisco Campus in San Jose, California in April 2022. A dedicated group of only five authors wrote a ... read more
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Update Sprint with Cisco on the Catalyst 9000 series
It took just five days working online together to update the 3rd version of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches. In the process of updating the text with new product features, the group worked with the guiding instruction “if you add ... read more
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Little guide for great Book Sprint venues
When prospecting for a Book Sprint, organisers often ask us (and we answer in our FAQs) if we can recommend any ideal venues. Having facilitated more than 200 Book Sprints, we have come up with a list that we are happy ... read more