How people really share knowledge effectively

Dave Pollard has taken a crack at modelling the way that people really gather, process and socialise information in ways that help them do their jobs effectively. It is not about big databases and content management systems.... it is about personal tools, finding the experts, good conversations. Dave says he hopes his model will cover working within public and nonprofit organisations as well as corporates, and it looks useful to me. Now if Dave could just do us a model for communication between sectors and organisations....
... and maybe there are some clues over on the Blog of Collective Intelligence, where Tom Atlee looks at techniques for Knowledge Mapping. He lists
mapping public issues, mind maps, pattern languages, dialogue mapping, graphic facilitation and a host of other powerful workshop techniques. The problem, of course, is getting people to use them rather than default to committee mode. Tom's post led me to the site of Robert E. Horn who has lots more on mapping.
I've been a bit slack on blogging recently while I circled around what to focus on next. Mapping and storytelling are coming to the fore. More later.

Comments

[Ian]

The Democs game from the New Economics Foundation seems to fit in here somewhere.

[chris macrae]

My site is all about mapping an organisation as a system connecting value demands of stakeholders and knowledge productivities of the service subsystems interconnecting the networked organisation. We have a fieldbook coming out and an egroup interested in producing a game version. Advanced versions of the game then map partners so that you see a whole network of interconnecting organisational maps and whether they are transparent enough to work as a whole. All open source stuff if there are players out there!