It started in a innocent enough way when, in a discussion about knowledge sharing and generation on the KM4Dev listserve, somebody cited the DIKW model as a way of describing how knowledge is generated in organisations. This provoked Dave Snowden into some sharp but illuminating posts (by the way, if you ever get bored and feel like doing some Dave-baiting, get yourself a false identity, sign up to one of the listserves he frequents, and make an enthusiastic post about DIKW, wisdom management, Ayn Rand or KM certification - or any combination thereof): “I That most hallowed of mental models and glib explanations, the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom hierarchy has taken a bit of a beating this week.

The Facebook groups as well as listserves and other group lists need to grasp the nature of individuals interests and provide the means to explicitly or implicitly start to understand and use these as filter options over time. It is all an area for exploration and growth in understanding, but digital social tools, for them to have more value for following and filtering the flows in more manageable ways need to more in grasping this more granular understanding of social interaction between people in a digital space. April 15, 2008 in Attraction , Attraction Receptor , Community ,

People already interact on listservs and email. There is hierarchy and a folksonomy. If Rachel has archive of several thousand items, with good search and folksonomy, can she get by without a taxonomy. (I I said something about buckets, Jim called it Taxonomy light) If they aren’t going to adopt folksonomy then you have to do tax They will do an implicit folksonomy whether you want them to or not based on what they choose Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Mar 13 2008 Notes from the Seattle Online Community Meetup Published by Nancy White at 4:45 pm under events , online interaction , technology stewardship These are notes from the