>
> Cameron,
It's "Kevin", by the way :) (Cameron is my last name, though I always
thought it was a cool first name too and wanted to be called Cameron
Cameron)
> The practice of Facilitation, as
> it has evolved, is often understood to be the collection of various tools
> and techniques that are then "done" to, or for, people. And the expert
> Facilitator is understood to be the person with the biggest tool box.
Interesting that you mention that now as, at the very moment your email
arrived, I was watching a webcast about phone companies and the
Internet. ( http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20051128_111 )
anyway, the lecturer was talking about stupid networks, about how they
are end to end, and nothing happens in the middle, and keeping things
out of the middle preserves the value. Basically,
"Don't crap up the middle of the network with assumption-driven software
such as security, content awareness, anti-malware-ware, etc..."
In OS terms, I guess this would be
"Don't crap up the middle of the space with assumption-driven
facilitation tools such as XYZ....."
He also talked about how, in a stupid network, the amount of work put in
by the engineer (or facilitator) stays constant, while the value of the
network grows exponentially because it is created at the edges (the
participants).
I'm only half-way through the web-cast, but I expect to find some other
OS relevant analogies before I am through... maybe describing it in
terms of the Internet is some ammunition to help me promote it as an
effective tool at work!
Kevin
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