Combining social and electronic technologies for large-scale, collaborative meaning making
Submitted by George Por on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 20:01.Large-scale, collaborative meaning making is a vital condition for dealing with crises and turning breakdowns into breakthroughs, locally and globally.
To be effective, the social technologies for facilitating that transformation need to be supported by the best what emergent electronic technologies can offer. For example:
Knowledge Management for Organizational White-Waters: An Ecological Framework
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 15:35.Article published in Knowledge Management (March 1999). The presentation focuses on the question how the knowledge ecology can facilitate the development of synergy between the data and information processing capacity and the innovative and creative capacity of human beings.
The Ecology of Knowledge: A Field of Theory and Practice, Key to Research & Technology Development
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 10:02.The Ecology of Knowledge: A Field of Theory and Practice, Key to Research & Technology Development is a position paper presented at the "Consultation Meeting on the Future of Organisations and Knowledge Management" of The European Commission's Directorate-General Information Society Technologies in Brussels on May 23-24, 2000.
Management Education and Knowledge Ecology
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 14:12.Ecosystems of knowledge generate social and economic value for businesses.
Published in BizEd, the Magazine for Business Education.
Nurturing Systemic Wisdom through Knowledge Ecology
Submitted by George Por on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 21:44.This article provides a framework that integrates "organizational nervous system" and "knowledge ecology".
It also gives step-wise guidelines to organizations who want to climb the knowledge > intelligence > wisdom ladder.
Published in The Systems Thinker.
Our Domains of Practice — a Palette of Capabilities
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 09:30.
Our network of transformation facilitators, leadership educators, community cultivators, knowledge ecologists, and online specialists, are drawing on a rich ecosystem of their shared knowledge. That ecosystem is the foundation, on which we foster the development of professional learning communities, also known as "communities of practice" in each of our 8 domains of practice outlined below. Think of that circle as a palette of capabilities, which we make available to our clients for painting with it the future they desire.