A knowledge space is where we gather to: share awareness, conduct productive inquiries, reflect upon persistent conversations and capture our thinking together.
A large part of the focus in my KmWiki has been to collect links and thoughts on tools, practices and design for collaborative spaces for knowledge work. The Wiki page serves as a summary and pointer to that work. The central theme has been to explore virtual spaces, affordances, rituals and tools that support social knowledge creation and innovation rather than storage, access, organization and retrieval of information. Some people feel I take the social aspects too far!
Questions that matter:
What are the key affordances for sharing, collaboration and knowledge creation?
Which social practices contribute most to a sense of shared identity & sacred space?
Who are the thought leaders in collaborative space design?
Where are the top repositories?
Collecting the key concepts:
Annealing, collaborative writing, refractoring, situatedness, emergence, corporate memory, Ba, generative learning, pattern languages, persistent conversations, yellow pages, open space SharedSpaces Wiki pages
So what do these have pages have in common?: knowledge sharing, learning, collaboration, dialog, knowledge creation & construction.
There is something enticing, exciting and alluring about knowledge spaces. In one very real sense, such spaces, when they exhibit effective social affordances, offer a glimpse of the future - collaborative innovation, continuous learning, profitable practice and strongly supported development.
So do you have a knowledge space in your immediate future!
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