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Evolution and Ecology of Interacting Infohabitants
	The Evolution and Ecology of Interacting Infohabitants project was a European initiative to convince EU information system designers & researchers that the study of the ecology of infohabitants will give them valuable insights in system design. This is solid research in support of Communication Centered Technology Planning. Posted: 9/16/04; 11:44:12 AM #

The Duality of Knowledge

In their 2002 paper, The Duality of Knowledge, Hildreth and Kimble present a clear case about how many of the most important forms of knowledge cannot be captured and stored. A quick scan of their diagrams will give you an idea of their argument, but I recommend the paper as a whole. They go further than making the usual distinction beween tacit and explicit knowledge and show how that distinction argues in favor of a community organizing approach to knowledge management. Posted: 9/16/04; 11:44:01 AM #

Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes
	In 1999, a team from MIT's Center for Coordination Science published Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes. It presents a methodology for comparing how different organizations get the same things done, in order to help improve processes. This approach could be very valuable in our sector. Posted: 9/16/04; 11:43:49 AM #

Ontology Development 101
	A lot of us who work with information spend much of our time categorizing things. If you want to learn how the experts recommend that you approach the processes of creating categorization schemes in the first place, I recommend Ontology Development 101. Posted: 9/16/04; 11:43:24 AM #

Innovation Diffusion Game

Lately I have been studying the subject of innovation, how it is nurtured and how it is spread. I believe that there are a lot of forces working against innovation in the nonprofit sector. In the course of this study, I remembered Alan Atkisson's Innovation Diffusion Game, which I played in the early nineties. It's a role playing game with a systems perspective, allowing participants to play out the various parts in the drama of innovaton, including Spiritual Recluse, Curmudgeon, Innovator, Iconoclast, Change Agent, Reactionary, Transformer, Laggard, and Mainstreamer. Posted: 9/16/04; 11:43:00 AM #