November 2003 archives

November 15, 2003 by Patti

Knowledge-at-work

Denham Grey sent me a note that he had moved his blog (blog roll has been updated). It was a good reminder to go see what’s on his mind. Good inquiries (as usual) on questions, COPs, and knowledge fundamentals in Knowledge-at-work. As with so much serendipitous email, these are all pertinent to some work I [...]

November 15, 2003 by Patti

Great quote from Valdis

Valdis Krebs has joined the AOK community. He gave a great summary of the value of social network analysis there this week: IMHO, SNA[KM]is a tool for the corporate consultant[antropologist] to view normally hidden aspects of organizations and together with the client to make-sense of what is happening — and therefore adapt to the real[not [...]

November 13, 2003 by Patti

More on social software

Cynthia Typaldos pointed this morning to a terrific note, Social Networking tools: a bubble in the making?, which describes my thoughts about this trend, only much more coherently than I could.

November 13, 2003 by Patti

Advanced Thinking

Before I had time to savor all the new ideas from Multiples of 1, I was off to the Advanced Thinker’s Forum, an emergent intentional network that Andy Snider, a Gennova colleague, is creating. Two days at the IBM Palisades conference center (a good design really does make a difference) with 30 “advanced thinkers ” [...]

November 8, 2003 by Patti

Multiples of 1

The Multiples of 1 conference just concluded. It was a mentally enriching (and tiring) day and a half of speakers, dialogue, and networking. Bill Snyder (co-author of Cultivating Communities of Practice) cast the provocative question about the emergence of community from those attending, and what its domain of practice going forward would be. Robin Chase, [...]