July 2003 archives

July 26, 2003 by Patti

Tipping

Tipping, in the New York Times, bemoans the overuse of the term “tipping point,” Valdis Krebs alerts SOCNET, with a question, “can betweenness be next?”. Note I did blog this use of Tipping Point in conjunction with the war in April. I think that “weak ties” will hit the top of the charts before “betweeness” [...]

July 26, 2003 by Patti

Theodore Zeldin at the Tate

Saturday morning’s email brought two links to Theodore Zeldin. One, a quote sent around by one of our local knowledge cafe founders: Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains [...]

July 21, 2003 by Patti

People/Process/Product

Seven Survival Tips for Knowledge Managers is a good list of tips for thinking about knowledge management. (Thanks to Denham Grey, once again for a good link from CPsquare.) The gist is that it is not possible to “bottle and transfer” knowledge from one person to another: the world is just too complex, people move [...]

July 21, 2003 by Patti

connected selves

Danah Boyd has taken on (publically, in SOCNET) the task of collecting information about digital social networks (Friendster and its ilk), in connected selves. Therein many great links and tidbits about how people use these internet-assisted linkages. Now, I’m starting on the path of thinking about the differences between transactional networks and learning networks. It [...]

July 16, 2003 by Patti

Collabor-action

Instant messaging with a CPsquare buddy, Noel Dickover (President of Communibuild Technologies, Inc.), we reviewed his recent posting to the CPsquare community about our decision to use Webcrossing for discussions in the coordinator’s practice group in CPsquare (temporarily abandoning Simplify). It’s worth it, I wanted to say, to get people “into action” in the community [...]