All Life Is Problem Solving

The Problem The biggest problem for Americans in our time is the increasingly dangerous threat to open society posed by the trend toward plutocracy and its effects on the political system. George Soros described the antecedents of these threats in The Age of Fallibility (pp. 100-101): “Gradually, the methods developed for commercial purposes found a […]

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[Ed. note: This series has been re-posted by Joe Firestone (a.k.a. letsgetitdone) on behalf of author Nancy Bordier with her express permission.] By Nancy Bordier See the series introduction here. This part discusses how individual voters can use the web-based tools and services provided by the Interactive Voter Choice System to set their policy agendas […]

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By Nancy Bordier and Joseph M. Firestone Overview The two of us met recently at an AmericaSpeaks event in Fairfax, VA, on June 26th. We decided independently to attend the event, but for the same reason. We wanted to protest the undue attention being given the federal budget deficit compared to the far more critical […]

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This post completes my analysis of Ray Sims’s presentation to the Boston KM Forum on April 9, 2008. Ray envisions three scenarios to relate Web 2.0 and KM. The first of these states that “Web 2.0 is ideally situated to support Personal Knowledge Management / Personal Learning Environment (PKM/ PLE).” Ray argues for that by […]

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Oscar Berg, in a blog entry on February 24, 2008, writes about Andrew McAfee’s take on Enterprise 2.0 and its relationship to KM. He says:   “What strikes me about Andrew McAfee’s definition is that it is very technology-oriented. It does not say anything about the purpose and potential value of emergent social platforms for […]

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  Owentsia Hunt Ball — Chicago (1904) Commentary on Dave Pollard’s Blog on Social Networking (continued from Part 1) KM, Social Network Management (SNM) and Conceptual Drift You then went on: “Four important unanswered questions: 1. What role can Social Network Enablement and social software play in enhancing individual and organizational learning?” Social network enablement […]

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  Rain, Steam, and Speed (J. W. M. Turner, 1844) In March of 2004, David Pollard served as the Star Moderator in the Association of Knowledge Work’s (AOK) Star Series. Many subjects were covered during the very fruitful exchanges of Dave’s tenure. One of my posts (message 1484) was a commentary on one of Dave’s […]

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