At the time with one of the most impressive KM Systems in place to date. That’s a summary of how traditionally powerful Knowledge Management Systems need to be ready to adapt or die with the emergence of Enterprise 2.0 (Yes, I know it may sound a bit too drastic, but you get the idea of what I am after with that expression); how they need to come to terms with the fact they are no longer in control (They never were for that matter!) we undertook a massive overhaul of the technology and approach If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know how my professional background comes from various different areas associated for quite some time now with Knowledge Management, in particular, traditional Knowledge Management: Collaboration, Community Building, Learning, etc.

This leads usto re-evaluate spatial systems, and discuss how ``place, rather than``space, can support CSCW design. Observing the way that space structures actions and interactions--the``affordances of space [Gaver, 1992]--many designers have usedspatial models and metaphors in collaborative systems. The desktopmetaphor of single-user systems has been extended to a metaphor ofdesks, offices, hallways and cities. Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in CollaborativeSystems Steve Harrison* and Paul Dourish+ *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center +Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Lab (EuroPARC) harrison@parc.xerox.com, dourish@europarc.xerox.com This is a draft of a paper which subsequently appeared in the Proceedings of CSCW96 (pub.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jan 30 2008 Thinking about systems change practices - letting go Published by Nancy White at 6:03 am under facilitation , knowledge sharing This is worth repeating and pondering…

a System (Restated for Bernanke and Geithner) System diagram Intervene in a System , in 1997. change in an organization, group, project, program or system. system as consisting of water pipes, valves (taps) and reservoirs. Here's BLOG Places to Intervene in in

few good tips and examples but also some "buyer beware" tactics that folks should be aware of. On average - using suggested retail prices,  it would cost approximately $450K to purchase 5000 Sametime licenses including maintenance, two hardware servers, pay someone to plan and install the software and servers, and pay an administrator to maintain the system. IBM is being very selective (almost dismissive) of the costs to introduce, deploy, and maintain the system.  I caught a couple of blog posts on the IBM Keynote for UC ( Lotusphere Message: Yes There Is a UC ROI ) and then one on the Sametime blog (see below).

He states that the community of practice has to add additional value to be an alternative to this system. It also reminds me that I may read old messages of com-prac to see which other practical examples of CoPs in the south are share David Mould has posted something in com-prac@yahoogroups.com with regard to his experiences with communities of practice in Thailand: [link] I recognised especially his important point about the extensive social networks (from the countries I worked in), which are very effective in getting questions and answers across. I

While our goal for the Lotusphere keynote was to provide concrete examples of how Sametime could pay for itself within a year, we did not set out to provide an exhaustive TCO model. if you were at the keynote, you may have noticed that our composite Renovations, Inc example was followed by one from a German manufacturing firm. The more specific example is appreciated but that doesn't really excuse John Del Pizzo from the IBM Sametime team responded to my post - but, I'm not persuaded by the counter-arguments.    Point 1

When I work in Ghana I am conscious of the fact that I don't know the context as a Ghanaian would and try to give different options when I propose something and ask for ideas and feedback. During the tech forum in Ghana I did a presentation on communities of practice and we asked for questions and examples of CoPs in Ghana. The participants could easily identify with the idea of social learning and mentioned various examples of CoPs in Ghana: * Accra Linux User Group- people with an interest in the same thing come together voluntarily * Informal women’s groups – shea butter, micro-credit

The term ‘digital panopticon’ has often been used to describe a dystopian world of virtual surveillance through such things as web-enabled social networking sites where much information is public, or alternatively, for example, the traffic surveillance system in London whereby the public can be constantly scrutinised through the centrally monitored cameras that track people’s/vehicle’s movements on city streets. In his “sociologies of the future,” Urry maintains that one thing which might save us from descending into post-car civil chaos is a system governed by a “digital panopticon”

MONEY SYSTEM REFORM major aspect of that new path of development has to be a money system fit for its purpose. The Purpose of the Money System The money system’s purpose must change from what it has been since its origins in the distant past. Via Thomas Greco: James Robertson on the need for monetary reform : (also