As promised, here is the first draft of my study findings. The traditional model of collaborative knowledge is based on the type of knowledge (moving from tangible to intangible, explicit to tacit) and the place of collaboration (moving from the individual to the group to the organization). I'd appreciate feedback. MORE >>

October is a month on the road… and one stop is Lyon, France, where I’ll be presenting at the third edition of the fOSSa Conference taking place from October 26 to 28, 2011. The role of transversal connections in online communities and networks. We might think of these as deep (groups) and broad (networks). MORE >>

Note: I’m working a back log of “draft posts&# that have yet to see the light of day. It has been lovely to work with the Compart team of Maarten Boers, Pier Adrea Pirani and Pete Cranston (the last two from Euforic Services and old KM4Dev pals.) See Peggy Holman’s terrific book, Engaging Emergence ). MORE >>

In today’s world employees often must deal with tasks and problems that require much more that simply following a predetermined step by step procedure – the problems require the exercise of judgment. When asked one of those thorny questions we often say, “Well, it’s a matter of judgment.” He was on the ground. was very dramatic. MORE >>

In that post I wanted to stress that if we get benefit out of good old group work and pains in processes (in-the-flow type stuff), then that’s you’re buy-in right there. Thus you needn’t have to worry about having to convince and persuade about the benefits of silo-bridging, awareness, emergence and all that jazz. MORE >>