In this book, which you can download on the KnowledgeBoard, Harrison Owen draws a parallel between his own experience as the creator of Open Space Technology and his readings about Complex Adaptative Systems from Murray Gell-Mann, the physicist, and self-organizing...
Many-to-Many: Not just activist, not just participatory, but connected About e-Democracy: "It’s not simply that connecting lowers the hurdle when compared with either activism or participating. More important, the rewards of connected democracy are different. Yeah, we (pretty please) throw...
Gary Lawrence Murphy at Teledyn made me laugh by proposing "a new item in the cultural lexicon, the active verb "to powerpoint" with the meaning: 1. to obscure and distract away from following a logical presentation; 2. dumbing down...
I went this morning to a conference organized by l'Atelier in Paris on behalf of Temis, a text-mining software company. Temis's presentation was about its software and services offering: semantic technologies for extraction, clustering and categorizing of information. It was...
"The Marketing of a President" is a great article showing how weblogs and other forms of social computing. are transforming the Internet "from information technology to organizing technology". I was particularly struck by the following quote from the article: "Dean's...
"...all around us and right under our eyes, a process of great importance is going on. It is favoured by the sudden multiplication of ultra-rapid means of travel and transmission of thought, and consists in the formation of more and...
In How to create a know-it-al company (a good article by the way), there is a good checklist of what missteps not to do when instituting knowledge management in corporate settings: Don't call it knowledge management. Employees don't get it,...
In his article "Trying to understand the main cultural hurdles to the learning organization concept in France" Dr. Daniel Belet of BLV learning partners makes an insightful analysis of the cultural issues that we face here in France when trying...