Decision Makers Needs Workshop Report
Inevitable Transhumanism? How Emerging Strategic Technologies will affect the Future of Humanity
Robin Good: 13 Sense-Making Approaches to Add Value to Information
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According to Harold Jarche, knowledge is an emergent property of all sense-making activities.
Curation and PKM (personal knowledge management) have the same objective: helping oneself and others gain more understanding about whatever we are interested in. The only difference between the two is that curation devotes itself to satisfy the knowledge needs of an audience while the second addresses these at a personal level.
But what are sense-making activites about?
Harold Jarche draws on Ross Dawson's five ways of adding value to information as well as on Nancy Dixon examination Rob Cross and Lee Sproull examination of tacit knowledge sharing practices inside large organizations to identify at least eight individual approaches to sense-making or adding more value to existing information.
These include:
- Validating
- Synthesizing
- Presenting
- Customizing
- Answering
- Meta-informing
- Reformulating
- Legitimizing
to which I would personally add:
- Comparing
- Finding related items
- Illustrating – Visualizing
- Evaluating
- Crediting and attributing
It is indeed around identifying and becoming aware of these specific aspects of our sense-making activities that we can improve and augment our capability to learn and to effectively curate information for others.
Thoughtful. Inspiring. 8/10
Original post: http://www.jarche.com/2013/10/pushing-and-pulling-tacit-knowledge/
Open Mind: Wilcock on Fulford – Cabal Planning Mega-Event
07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence
Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:56 PM PDT
David is not the only one saying similar things, especially about Obama. I have followed David for many years, read both his recent books, and highly respect his work. He is not always “right on”, but he is always pretty close and mostly right on.
Tom
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David Wilcock Comments of Fulford: “The Cabal are Planning on Creating a Mega-Event of Some Sort..”
Posted By: Jordon [Send E-Mail]
Date: Monday, 28-Oct-2013 15:52:12
Date: Monday, 28-Oct-2013 15:52:12
In Response To: Fulford Blurb: Big Moves Made Against The Cabal in The Past Week (Jordon)
Chuck Spinney: Steven Walt’s Proof of Col John Boyd’s Strategic Theorem — Don’t Think, Just Keep The Money Moving….
Military, Officers Call, Strategy
Boyd's Theorem
(pounded with unrelenting ferocity into the heads of friends for over 30 years):
“People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy
They are wrong. The Pentagon does have a strategy; it is:
Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it.”
— Col. John R. Boyd (U.S. Air Force, ret.)*
Fighter Pilot, Tactician, Strategist,
Conceptual Designer, Reformer
Now read the attached opinion piece to see why Steven Walt's last sentence is dangerously wrong.
Lesson: If you want to understand U.S. foreign policy and U.S. military strategy, you need to climb down from Mount Olympus and dig into the dirt to discern and acknowledge its domestic roots.
Hint: A good place to start getting your hands dirty would be to investigate the real reasons why the Pentagon has refused to fix its corrupt and unauditable accounting system, a disgraceful state of affairs that is in violation of the law (i.e., the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990), not to mention the spirit and the letter of the Appropriations and Accountability Clauses of the Constitution (which, by the way, every member of the US government has taken a sacred unconditional oath to protect and uphold).
Chuck Spinney
* New readers unfamiliar with Boyd and his seminal works will find an introduction and references to his strategic theories here, including especially Robert Coram's highly readable biography, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Little Brown).
Leaving Afghanistan: Not With a Bang, But a Whimper
Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, 28/10/13
Marcus Aurelius: CSA Interview + AWC SSI Reminder — Answers from the 1990’s Long Ignored…
Ethics, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Strategy
PDF (1 Page): (U) CSA Interview (Defense News, 28Oct13)-1
Interview
GEN. RAY ODIERNO
US Army Chief of Staff
Defense News 10/28/2013
At last week’s Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition in Washington, thousands gathered to hear senior leaders explain where the service is headed in this era of austerity. And the message from Gen. Ray Odierno, Army chief of staff, was one of frustration with uncertain budgets and automatic and inflexible defense cuts that are gutting readiness, with only two of his brigades ready for combat. The Army has been cutting personnel at a breakneck pace to save as much money as possible, given additional budget cuts are likely.
The Army is headed from a force of 570,000 soldiers, just a few years ago, down to 490,000. That number could get smaller, given sequestration is likely to continue and deeper reductions are expected over the coming months as part of a broader debt and spending deal.
Q. What is the real impact of past and future budget cuts on the force? Why are you so alarmed? And what is the way out of it?
SchwartzReport: Fukushima Fries the West Coast 28 Ways — US Map & Links — Deeply Frightening, Pity There Is No One Attending to the Public Interest….
03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Lessons, Media, Officers Call
This is the latest on Fukushima and the impact it is making on the U.S. West Coast. This directly affects me, as well as tens of millions of other Americans, and there doesn't seem to be a thing we can do about it.
28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima
MICHAEL SNYDER – Global Research – Centre for Research and Globilization
The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States.
Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amouont of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain. Ultimately, all of this nuclear radiation will outlive all of us by a very wide margin. They are saying that it could take up to 40 years to clean up the Fukushima disaster, and meanwhile countless innocent people will develop cancer and other health problems as a result of exposure to high levels of nuclear radiation. We are talking about a nuclear disaster that is absolutely unprecedented, and it is constantly getting worse. The following are 28 signs that the west coast of North America is being absolutely fried with nuclear radiation from Fukushima.
NIGHTWATCH: Pakistan + Saudi Arabia Against USA
08 Wild CardsPakistan: Pakistan is backing Saudi Arabia's rejection of its non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council and supports Riyadh's calls for UN reforms, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said on 26 October. Pakistan fully understands the imperatives and compulsions that led to the Saudi decision, according to a foreign ministry statement.
Comment: The Pakistani statement appears to be unsolicited. That suggests its timing serves two important purposes. One is to curry favor with the Saudis with whom Pakistan has a longstanding security relationship.
The second is to identify Pakistan's troubles with US foreign policy with those of Saudi Arabia. Despite the recent release of more than $1 billion in US aid to Pakistan, Prime Minister Sharif's visit to Washington, D.C., last week did not go well. Sharif has now let the US know.
