Dear All, I this reminds me of a thread a while ago - I call it the NASA thread [1].One of the contributors to the thread is Neil Olonoff. I asked him a question - he was doing a phd in knowledge management at the time and had chosen TW to gather his knowledge - interesting context.
All groups have similar problems: how to share knowledge. Here in TiddlyLand we have a great tool in development acting as a beautiful muse for deep questions like this. This is cut and pasted from my gmail, I can't find the web URL: >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"? > [...] >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. Alex [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/mXaXqvcbxFA%5B26-50-false%5D On 20 November 2014 22:52, Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mat, > > Thanks for coming back with humour and good grace. I've not been involved > in the hangouts before now, fearing also to make a fool of myself live on > air :) Perhaps now would be a good time to start (though the time > difference to Australia probably means I'll need a lot of coffee to > participate). > > I hope that in the future, we non-developers will be able to find more > practical ways to help Jeremy out and support the development of TiddlyWiki > by addressing these and other issues. > > The point you make about plugins being 'trustworthy' and that some people > might consider installing one akin to installing a dubious phone-app is an > interesting one. Perhaps one of the things that we can emphasise to people > is a way of working with TiddlyWikis in general - ie; creating many backups > and alternative versions, trying things out in a dummy wiki and then > bringing them across to your production wiki, different procedures for > automatically backing up tiddlers etc. > > I don't pretend to understand half of what TW can do myself, but the > things I can already do with it would be of use to many, many people and I > share your excitement about getting the word out and building a strong > community. > > Regards, > Richard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
