In MirandaNet, this kind of learning has been observed since 2000, when the community had gained a mature capacity to use the listserv to enrich their professional learning. It’s taken a long time but since 1992 MirandaNet members have been learning how to communicate on line. Now an e-mature community our discussions are becoming more and more sophisticated.

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.

In every venue where I am present – from listservs to LinkedIn to individual phone conversations with people unrelated to consulting – we’ve been asking things like • The more we dive into what it means to run the Community-Driven Institute with true transparency, the more we learn at every step.  This week’s Q&A session on Community-Driven Consulting is turning out to be yet another example of that!

Thanks to John Bordeaux via the actKM listserve for flagging thi VERY interesting interpretation of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Framework from Noah Raford , adding a temporal, cyclical dimension to it by blending it with Gunderson and Holling ’s cycle of adaptive change. What interests me most is the notion of collapse from simple to chaotic, and then into complex as we re-learn.