2.7 Graphical representations
Graphical representations, and in particular, maps, are a rich topic for cognitive research:
Each person carries with him his cognitive field as a map of the world. He responds not to the world, but to the map. When he receives the stimulus of a communication, the meaning it has is the way it can […]
Spatial world and analogy
Adult humans have had plenty of practice in mentally modelling space and, because of this, we become adept at recognising patterns in it. So when we are presented with a conceptual instead of spatial problem, it can be both advantageous and natural for us to draw analogy and to attempt to translate […]
Text
Language, especially its permanent textual form, is a format that virtually every human has the ability to use and is undeniably powerful, emotive and expressive. Carefully selected, words can ring an air of stark truth and clarity, and can drive a deep understanding directly into the human subconscious. However to achieve the degree of expression […]
Since 2004, the terms Social Media, “Web 2.0″ and The Architecture of Participation, have been about getting the masses to provide full engagement, and are taking leaps and bounds as a dominant means to put publishing on the web into the hands of the common public.
Brought into an Enterprise context, its sister “Enterprise 2.0,” now […]
2.4 Natural conception of space
The extent of our experience thus dictates an arbitrary limit on the dimensionality that we understand. However, there is no such limit on the complexity of relationships between objects. It is these relationships that dictate the pattern of a system that we seek to comprehend, and it is these which we […]
Wikis - Making Sense out of a House of Shards(c) Martin@Cleaver.org2 December 2004
A wiki can be a posting board, knowledge base, project tracker, photo album, and discussion forum. It’s all of these, yet none alone does it justice. Even for the most experienced, a Wiki can be infuriatingly difficult to classify!
From a linguistic perspective, the […]
2.3On Space
The environment or “milieu” that we live in is partly composed of a space and as such, some of the earliest things that we need to describe during childhood exist in a spatial field. We become accustomed to understanding the spatial dimensions and become experienced at describing them. Survival, [MIM] claims, has become our […]
Note: I no longer work with Helix Commerce.
Some of my readers will know me from presenting with Bill Ives at KMWorld on the topic of Blogs and Wikis. Well, Bill, Cindy and I have teamed with IBM to provide a training version for corporations and the public.
Here’s an extract from our marketing literature:
Blogs and […]
Verna Allee is a leading light in the discipline of Knowledge Management, having built a solid methodology, a steady practice and tools (some open source), around the notion of Value Networks for modeling Enterprises as Living Systems.
Verna Allee and Oliver Schwabe are visiting The Toronto Value Networks Cluster http://www.vncluster.com/YYZ.htm at The Kingbridge Institute, www.kingbridgecentre.com on […]
There was another slide in Software as a Service (SaaS) for Small to Medium sized Businesses ( PDF), one that warrants a separate posting:
The story here is about business webs, and how taking one SaaS service, such as Salesforce.com can lead to adoption of another, compatible, integrated service. Salesforce.com is leading the way in its […]
