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Michel Bauwens
michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 13:53:49 CET 2009
*Your social network effects your behaviors and even your
health<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/social-contagion>
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There is a fascinating article titled Three Degrees of
Contagion<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126882.300-how-social-contagio%0An-can-strengthen-your-resolve.html>in
the January 2009 issue of New
Scientist <http://www.newscientist.com/>.
Recent research shows that our behaviors and habits are more strongly
influenced by friends and relatives than we might imagine. Furthermore, it
seems that behaviors, ill-health and even moods pass through friendship
networks across several degrees of separation, and we are almost bound to
"catch" them.
The research applies to our face to face social networks but what intrigues
me is the unanswered question: What about our on-line social networks,
mediated through FaceBook, discussion forums and the like? What influence do
these networks have on our behaviors? I suspect they too have an influence
albeit to a lesser degree.
In the article, they offer five tips for a healthier social network:
1. Choose your friends carefully.
2. Choose which of your existing friends you spend the most time with.
For example, hang out with people who are upbeat, or avoid couch potatoes.
3. Join a club whose members you would like to emulate (running, healthy
cooking), and socialise with them.
4. If you are with people whose emotional state or behaviours you could
do without, try to avoid the natural inclination to mimic their facial
expressions and postures.
5. Be aware at all times of your susceptibility to social influence - and
remember that being a social animal is mostly a good thing.
Source: Three Degrees of
Contagion<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126882.300-how-social-contagio%0An-can-strengthen-your-resolve.html>,
New Scientist <http://www.newscientist.com/>, January 2009.
This seems good advise for our online social networks also!
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From: David GURTEEN <david.gurteen at gurteen.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:18 AM
Subject: Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 103 - January 2009 ##27613##
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
Hi Michel,
Here is your personal copy of the January 2009 Gurteen Knowledge Letter.
Regards David.
David Gurteen
Gurteen Knowledge
*Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 103 - January
2009<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/newsletter103>
*
*Contents*
1 Introduction <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004159>
2 6 Things to Do in 2009 <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004168>
3 Join me on LinkedIn <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004161>
4 Business cases are a waste of time! <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004162>
5 Google Friend Connect <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004160>
6 There's a crack in everything <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004147>
7 Your social network effects your behaviors and even your
health<#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004167>
8 Flickring your life! <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004197>
9 KM Tweeters! <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L004164>
10 KM Event Highlights <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L003107>
11 Subscribing and Unsubscribing <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L003106>
12 The Gurteen Knowledge Letter <#11ef0c2898e5cd9e_L003105>
*Introduction <http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/intro103>* (
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A little late but welcome to the New Year. 2009!
I can hardly believe it. 20 years ago, on the 2nd January 1989, myself, my
then wife, her mother and my three young children left for what turned out
to be 3 amazing years in Boston where I worked for Lotus Development as
International Czar. A period that had a huge influence on all of us!
If you ever get the opportunity to do something similar and live in another
country for a few years especially with a young family - take it - I doubt
you will regret it.
*6 Things to Do in 2009<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/todo2009>
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The new year would not be complete without a list of things todo (TTDs). So
here are a few from Chris
Brogan<http://www.chrisbrogan.com/12-things-to-stop-doing-in-2009/>.
1. Find a new way to improve someone's day (and determine if there's
value in it).
2. Synthesize new ideas from outside your audience's circle (and help us
make meaning from them).
3. Promote the great people out there (and and keep doing it).
4. Learn from brilliant people (and share what you learn).
5. Work on interesting projects that matter to you (and empower others to
participate).
6. Discover your passions (and share them openly).
You will also find 12 things not to do but personally I found them less
interesting.
*Join me on LinkedIn<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/linkedin-again>
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If you have not realized it already, LinkedIn has well and truly established
itself as the de facto standard social networking platform for your
professional life. LinkedIn is for professional connections. FaceBook is
more for personal connections but for many people like myself professional
ones as well.
Slowly, I am connecting with all my professional contacts via LinkedIn and
have over 1,000 established connections. Why? It's the one place I can
guarantee finding an up to date profile of the people I know and a means of
contacting them.
Fort those of you who have connected with me - Welcome. Its great to see
that many of you have only recently joined and I am your first connection.
If you have had an invite from me - please accept it. LinkedIn limits the
number of invites I can send to about 2,000 and with 15,000 members of this
community that restricts me a little!
If you haven't joined, you should. And please, if I have not invited you
yet, invite me to connect with you.
You might also like to join the Gurteen Community
group<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/linkedin-group>on
LinkedIn but although it has several hundred members I am not making
full
use of it as yet.
Oh and take a look at Guy Kawasaki's Ten ways to use
LinkedIn<http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/ten_ways_to_use.html>
.
*Business cases are a waste of
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Knowledge managers are always asking how they can obtain support for a KM
project by demonstrating the ROI especially as the measuring the ROI of a KM
initiative is so difficult.
This article by Susan Cramm on the Harvard Business Publishing website is
about IT projects but I think is even more applicable to KM projects. This
is what she says:
In most cases, the benefits outlined in business (proposals) are a work of
creative fiction, and, once the initiative is approved, they are filed and
forgotten.
Smart leaders don't waste their time with this. They play the game, but they
know how to make the game worth playing. They understand that only 30% of
IT-enabled business initiatives deliver as expected and that the other 70%
are plagued with unclear business objectives, missing-in-action executive
support and inadequate user involvement.
Credit: Business Cases Are a Waste of Time (But Do Them
Anyway)<http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/cramm/2008/11/business-cases-are-a-wa%0Aste-of.html>by
Susan
Cramm <http://www.valuedance.com/>
It's a ritual that needs to played! Susan then offers some very sound advise
in my opinion. The words below, especially the ones I have highlighted in
bold are KEY. In short, business life is
political<http://www.ikmagazine.com/display.asp?articleid=66AAF3D6-0B89-40F0-B33%0AF-3E4DE4D7B48E>:-)
To build support, it's important to align the initiative to the overall
strategic business objectives and *to align the initiative to serve the
selfish interests of the individuals who will be impacted most.*
Credit: Business Cases Are a Waste of Time (But Do Them
Anyway)<http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/cramm/2008/11/business-cases-are-a-wa%0Aste-of.html>by
Susan
Cramm <http://www.valuedance.com/>
*Google Friend Connect<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/google-fc>
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I am experimenting with a new Google application called Google Friend
Connect <http://www.google.com/friendconnect> - a tool that website owners
can use to give their site a more social feel.
Take a look, you will find two widgets on most pages of my website including
my home page <http://www.gurteen.com>. The first is a members widget that
allows you to join my site, sign in and out, see other members, and use
other social features and the second is a wall widget that allows you to
post comments, or links to videos on my site.
Its a little like
MyBlogLog<http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/DavidGurteen>which I
also use on my site but Friend Connect has no where near the same
functionality but then it is early days.
*There's a crack in
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In a recent conversation with Dominic Kelleher in Brussels we discovered a
joint appreciation of the poems and songs of Leonard
Cohen<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen>and Dominic told me
of one of his favorite songs and a quote from it that I
too particularly liked. This was the quote.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
>From the the lyrics of the song
Anthem<http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/anthem.html>by
Leonard
Cohen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen>
But then in googling the song and the quote I found this fragment from an
interview with Leonard Cohen that brought the words even more to live for
me.
*In another song you also say "There's a crack in everything, that's how the
light gets in". It is not a very happy thought to believe that something
will always have to break, to open a crack, in order to the light gets in...
*
It is a happy thought if we enjoy the truth. There is always something that
will have to break. Usually it is our personal pride. A Buddhist thinker
said that disappointment is a great way to illumination. Other masters said:
"from the broken debris of my heart I will erect an altar to the Lord".
The idea that there is a staircase of gold and marble, which leads to
knowledge is seductive, but seems to me that the idea of something needing
to get broken before we can learn anything is a more true idea. It is my
experience, maybe you can escape it, but I doubt it. Unless the heart
breaks, we will never know anything about love. As long as our objective
universe doesn't collapse, we'll never know anything about the world.
We think that we know the mechanism, but only when it fails we understand
how intricate and mysterious is the operation. So, it is true, "there's a
crack in everything", all human activity is imperfect and unfinished. Only
that way we can have the notion that there's something inside us that can
only be located through disillusion, bad luck and defeat. Unfortunately,
that seems to be the case.
>From an interview <http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/expresso.html> with Leonard
Cohen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen>
Some interesting food for thought on KM from an enexpected source. I love
it!
*Your social network effects your behaviors and even your
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There is a fascinating article titled Three Degrees of
Contagion<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126882.300-how-social-contagio%0An-can-strengthen-your-resolve.html>in
the January 2009 issue of New
Scientist <http://www.newscientist.com>.
Recent research shows that our behaviors and habits are more strongly
influenced by friends and relatives than we might imagine. Furthermore, it
seems that behaviors, ill-health and even moods pass through friendship
networks across several degrees of separation, and we are almost bound to
"catch" them.
The research applies to our face to face social networks but what intrigues
me is the unanswered question: What about our on-line social networks,
mediated through FaceBook, discussion forums and the like? What influence do
these networks have on our behaviors? I suspect they too have an influence
albeit to a lesser degree.
In the article, they offer five tips for a healthier social network:
1. Choose your friends carefully.
2. Choose which of your existing friends you spend the most time with.
For example, hang out with people who are upbeat, or avoid couch potatoes.
3. Join a club whose members you would like to emulate (running, healthy
cooking), and socialise with them.
4. If you are with people whose emotional state or behaviours you could
do without, try to avoid the natural inclination to mimic their facial
expressions and postures.
5. Be aware at all times of your susceptibility to social influence - and
remember that being a social animal is mostly a good thing.
Source: Three Degrees of
Contagion<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126882.300-how-social-contagio%0An-can-strengthen-your-resolve.html>,
New Scientist <http://www.newscientist.com>, January 2009.
This seems good advise for our online social networks also!
*Flickring your life!<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/flickr-life>
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This might just be of interest to some of you - especially the photographers
amongst you. Quite simply, for last few years I have been photo-blogging my
life on Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/gurteen/sets/>. Mainly my
business life but their is personal stuff too though much of it is
restricted to friends and family.
Even I am quite amazed at the places I have been and the things I have done.
It is so easy to forget. I wonder what I will make of this collection in ten
years time!
You might want to think about doing it yourself - its so easy to do with a
digital camera.
*KM Tweeters! <http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-tweeters>*
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I started out with a simple mission to compile a top ten list of people who
regularly tweeted on KM inspired by this list Ten People All Twitter
Beginners Should be
Following<http://www.twitip.com/ten-people-all-twitter-beginners-should-be-follo%0Awing>.
And of course, like a good Tweeter I announced my intent on
Twitter<http://twitter.com/DavidGurteen>only to be reminded by
@Nimmy <http://twitter.com/nimmypal> that @Patrick
DiDomenico<http://twitter.com/didomenico>had already created a pretty
comprehensive list of 80 or so of KM tweeters: Must-Follow
Twitterers on Twitter |
Knowledge?Management<http://lawyerkm.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/must-follow-twitterers-on-twi%0Atter-knowledge-management>.
So what to do? Well first I have merged; removed duplicates and sorted
Patrick's lists and turned them into links to the individual's tweet page.
This allows me and others to quickly click through to their page and check
them out. See the list at the bottom of this page.
In clicking through on these folk - many are clearly not focused on KM - a
place to browse, a place to start but not a top 80 by any means. And this is
a general problem, as many KMers like myself and Nimmy tweet on a wide range
of topics but only some on KM. So I am trying to remember to
tag<http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2007/08/hash-tags-twitt.html>my
KM tweets with a #KM
tag <http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23km> to make them easy to find.
The criteria for my list? That's difficult, but mainly people whom I know
and respect; who I follow myself and who frequently post good, relevant KM
tweets even if they would not label themselves a KM person as such.
If you consider yourself a "KM tweeter" and are not on any of these lists or
you know of others who should be here then please let me know.
You can see my lists
here<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-tweeters>.
*KM Event Highlights<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/kl-events>
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This section highlights some of the major KM
events<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/annual-conferences>taking
place around the world in the coming months and ones in which I am
actively involved. You will find a full
list<http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/events>on my
website where you can also subscribe to both regional e-mail alerts
and RSS feeds <http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/rss-feeds>which
will keep you informed of new and upcoming events.
Leading through
Complexity<http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=79>
03 Feb 2009, London, United Kingdom
Knowing in a Virtual World - the strategic use of social
computing<http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=80>
04 Feb 2009, London, United Kingdom
The Second Annual Global Learning Summit<http://www.globallearningsummit.com>
24 - 27 Feb 2009, Singapore City, Singapore
The Gurteen Knowledge Caf?
Masterclass<http://essentials-media.matchpoint.nl/index.php?item=331>
21 Apr 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
I will be facilitating this masterclass in Rotterdam.
Congres Sociale
Netwerken<http://essentials-media.matchpoint.nl/index.php?item=329>
22 Apr 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
I am giving the keynote talk at this conference.
Knowledge Management Africa
2009<http://www.isivivane.com/kmafrica/?q=kmafrica2009>
04 - 07 May 2009, Dakar, Senegal
APQC Knowledge Management Conference
2009<http://www.apqc.org/promos/marketing/km/09kmconf_callforpapers.html>
14 - 15 May 2009, Houston, United States
KC UK 2009 <http://www.kc-uk.co.uk>
08 - 09 Jun 2009, London, United Kingdom
I will be participating in KC UK this year.
International Conference on Knowledge
Management<http://isfea.net/conferences/knowledge-management-conference-2009-abst%0Aract-submission.htm>
24 - 26 Jun 2009, Kampala, Uganda
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knowledge and to stimulate thought and interest in such subjects as
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