Neal, I couldn't help but notice that you are "Lead, Federal Knowledge Management Initiative", and mentioned this thread to Tudor, an innovation academic i work with this morning. I thought the thread is interesting from the perspective of who the contributors are, where they come from and what they do.
The thread starts with a question from a knowledge management specialist, then continues with two contributions from educators - Måns and Shavinder. I think there is a valuable contribution from teachers learning things then teaching. FND has a technical understanding of TW, but also of broader topics in computer science and of the associated skills required to be a professional in this sector - a mastery of writing being one and a 'patience beyond his age' being another. The knowledge sharing in the TW group, is informed by the cultures in Unamesa, Osmosoft and BT. I often think about how to re-produce the feel of TW in other contexts. Digging a little deeper into Unamesa's espoused purpose gives some insight into the source of this culture. Eric and Saq are clearly high calabre people motivated by strong commitment helping others as part of their jobs. >From a knowledge management specialist angle, what can the TW community do to facilitate the flow of knowledge in such a way that diverts it from the "negative long-term effects by stymying deeper understanding and perpetuating reliance on a small group of established experts"? [1] Alex [1] FND 2010/1/26 Neil Olonoff <[email protected]> > FND > > > You wrote: > > Well, then let me throw in some controversy, for giggles (since we're way > off topic anyway): > Extreme politeness and willingness to comprehensively solve others' > problems, while very beneficial for most users' immediate needs, can yield > negative long-term effects by stymying deeper understanding and perpetuating > reliance on a small group of established experts. > > First - you are on topic for this particular thread, which I began with a > comment regarding the difficulty of tweaking and upgrading, etc. > > To your point: > > By constantly applying "Band-Aids" to TiddlyWiki problems, we may be > avoiding facing the major operation that may be ultimately needed. > > The "major operation" of course is adding those features that would place > TiddlyWiki among the mature tools that don't require backstage technical > tweaks by a programmer, but have controls that any user can learn. > > Not an original comment, of course. > > Regards, > > Neil > > Neil Olonoff [email protected] > Lead, Federal Knowledge Management Initiative, > Federal KM Working Group hosted at http://KM.gov > Office: 703.614.5058 (US Army HQDA, G-4/Contracted by Innolog) > Mobile: 703.283.4157 (Disabled during working hours) > Personal profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/olonoff > Blogging at http://FedKM.org > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, FND <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FND, your gentle yet assertive pointers towards well considered ways of >>> doing things provide a lot of learning opportunities. >>> >> >> Well, then let me throw in some controversy, for giggles (since we're way >> off topic anyway): >> Extreme politeness and willingness to comprehensively solve others' >> problems, while very beneficial for most users' immediate needs, can yield >> negative long-term effects by stymying deeper understanding and perpetuating >> reliance on a small group of established experts. >> >> >> >> -- F. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<tiddlywiki%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<tiddlywiki%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > -- http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
