Alex, You wrote:
>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] > You've asked a deep question, which I will need to think about a while to give it the respect it deserves. >From a Knowledge Management (KM) perspective the TiddlyWiki group and its related groups TiddlyDev etc, constitute a quasi professional "community of practice" (COP). Professional COPs share a common vocabulary and shared "repertoires," or routinized activities. By participating in this group, the members participate in a creative space for communication. A Japanese KM theorist named Ikujiru Nonaka calls this a "ba", which is a concept that comes out of Japanese and Buddhist philosophy. It's something like "space," although English doesn't have an equivalent word. Dr. Dave Snowden uses a Welsh term -- Cynefin -- which has the added dimension of geographical space (sort of like "neighborhood") In order to enhance this space for communication it might be useful for the members to learn more about one another, in order to strengthen relationships and increase the "bandwidth" or richness of the communication. Learning about other people's day jobs and their interests definitely can help. This points to a qualitative change in the group's posts, that may not be of interest, however. But really, that's the essence of becoming a "knowledge community." All groups have a micro-culture. Others have observed that this is a generous and giving culture. Changing the communications might change the culture. The communication bandwidth has been narrow, focused on TW. Widening the bandwidth carries both risks and opportunities, and only you can decide if it's something you might want to pursue. Part of the risk is this: Possibly what has kept this community so civil is the narrowness of its focus. It's hard to get personal when you're talking about plugins and uploads. But start talking about personal matters and the conversation can easily go in unexpected directions. This is what happens in so many other communities. So the road to greater understanding requires expanding the range of topics, and thereby opening the conversation, which also contains the potential risk of an occasional decline in civility. 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 12:17 PM, Alex Hough <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]<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. 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