Robert Paterson: Knowledge/RelationshpsHow is knowledge really created and built uponBlogging and Society- August 29, 2003 500 years ago the communications system in the west was owned by one organization - the church. If you wanted something in writing a monk transcribed it. Few knew how to read as a result of books being so expensive. Your network news was delivered from the pulpit. The system supported the status quo of the power of God's elect, the King and his henchmen the aristocracy and above supported the most powerful multinational enterprise the world had yet seen the church itself. The church was the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/knowledgeRelationshps/2003/08/29.html#a753 Blogging and Education - eBay- August 29, 2003 Enrollment for the media courses at our community college is way down this year. Is this part of the dot-com fallout or is something more going on What is on offer is a one year full time class based course that costs $10,000 and teaches you to create web pages. I asked my blogging friends on PEI, none of whom are older than 24 and most younger and all of whom are experts in web based communication, - note I did not say experts in web creation.- to tell me how they learned to be so good. They..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/knowledgeRelationshps/2003/08/29.html#a752 Blogging and Health- August 29, 2003 Are blogs just a means of telling one' own story Are they about developing software or are they a cheap and very easy way to create community Why would creating community be helpful Here is the first of a few short answers to that question. Blogging and health - Follow the link and see the power of self help groups. The bottom line is that doctors are good at diagnosis and acute care but little else. If you have a chronic illness say diabetes, cancer etc the research is in. Joining a self help..http://www.fergusonreport.com/articles/fr039905.htm Blogging - St Paul - The Real Needs of Business- August 29, 2003 New movements tend to stall when the "in group" want to keep the movement within the "in group" The same may be true for blogging. The number of people that know about what a blog is among my clients is very small. Intuitively I would say less than 2%. What would put them off Anything technical. Blogging has to be made really easy. Why do I mention St Paul At the outset of Christianity there was a huge debate. The "In Group" as lead by the surviving disciples of Jesus insisted that to be.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/knowledgeRelationshps/2003/08/29.html#a750 (Untitled)- August 27, 2003 More Great KM Stuff. Collaboration is in the KM toolbox. Collaboration is the new KM Why collaboration I think it appeals because its less fluffy than 'KM' - people intuitively think its good (few CEO's are crying out for their people to collaborate less) - and it taps a current need: in trying to cut costs by e.g. reducing travel, people are feeling the pain of projects failing and mis-communication. 'Virtual teams' as a term has been around long enough, but few companies are getting it...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/knowledgeRelationshps/2003/08/27.html#a746 Sultry Bloggers - Why are men so boring- August 13, 2003 Have you noticed how sultry many women's blogs are and how dry so many mens' blogs are Some exampls of "sultry": Monday, August 11, 2003 Reinvented.com I feel like my cherry's been popped! I've been a web virgin for so long. I'm glad I waited until I found the right l(d)ink. And to be linked from the likes of http:www.reinvented.com. posted by Cynthia 5:21 PM Fuck It's Humid Mother of the gods, my arse is sticking to this computer chair. I really do hate this kind of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/knowledgeRelationshps/2003/08/13.html#a728 Universities - Where next- August 10, 2003 We live today in one of those periodic times, when shifts in beliefs and in communication technology drive a fundamental change in how power is defined and exercised. What are these trends and how do they manifest themselves in the lives of universities How can universities, with their unique cultures and management processes, cope and even prosper in this type of environment What is going on What are these trends and what do they mean for managing a University In particular, what do...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/knowledgeRelationshps/2003/08/10.html#a721 What is going on at Universities Growing cultural complexity!- August 10, 2003 I have been talking to a number of universities about what their world feels like today. Here are some of my early views. The bottom line - Universities have become too complex for conventional management processes and conventional HR approaches which have a tendency to seek conformity and are based on both a mechanical mindset and the belief in cause and effect. Many enterprises have complexity such as different divisions, but at a modern university the complexity is overwhelming. What..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/categories/knowledgeRelationshps/2003/08/10.html#a720 The Meaning of Life - an impressive book - The Years of Rice and Salt By Kim Stanley Robinson- August 10, 2003 I have just finished The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. His Mars series told me more about how a world system can be created than any other source. This book, The Years, has caused me to look more deeply at my own life, my actions in it and my mortality than any other. Here is part of a review in the Independent: where you will find a synopsis as well "Robinson can write action and adventure as well as anyone, but in the end this is an ethical fiction about the true..http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/03/06/europe/ Blogging - A new tool for democracy Some examples- August 10, 2003 (Thanks to Instapundit for the link) In the pre-newspaper mass media era, Candidates had to literally press the flesh. Since then the relationship between voter and candidate has become so distant that it can only be "spun" into 5 second sound bites. The result, we have become dis-empowered and no complex issue can be dealt with. Maybe weblogging will change the relationship Maybe candidates will have to interact Maybe they will have to respond using a personal voice Maybe they will have to...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107946/stories/2003/08/09/bornInGuilfordCountyTheCampaignweblogc... |