Morning Post

This morning, I got the urge to share an article I recently read called Knowledge Ecology - Part of Getting Smarter Together by Helen Titchen Beeth and George Por. It was posted on the evolutionary nexus site. Here are some snippets that stand out:

Attributes of a healthy knowledge ecology

The qualities that make a great knowledge ecology are the ones that make it easy for users to transform the information in the garden into knowledge that they can apply in action.

• Relevance: Information is focused on factors important to the task at hand.
  
• Reliability: Users must be able to rely on accessing the information they need, when they need it.
  
• Timeliness: Retrieval must be sufficiently real-time to enable effective decisions.
  
• Accuracy: The garden must validly reflect the contributions of whatever source(s) contributed the information.
  
• Completeness: There must be balanced emphasis on all the important factors.
  
• Access: For authorised users, from anywhere, at any time.
  
• Elegance: The goal is actionable insight, not data.
  
• Expression: Everyone must easily understand it.
  
• Relationship: Related information must be easily found.
  
• Explicitness: Examples and uses must be adequately described.
  
• Boundary: All exceptions must be clearly stated.
  
• Glossary: All unusual terms must be defined.

What makes good [knowledge] gardeners?

The answer to this question is unexpected. Knowledge gardening is a sacred task, undertaken for the sake of the whole. It therefore requires individual emptiness - a readiness to engage the emergent field without self-concern or a personal agenda. This gives a spacious consciousness which can detect complex patterns and capture magic from the middle. In our role as knowledge gardeners, we are not just called to the service of evolution, we are called to the service of our own wholeness. So it is not enough to concentrate on doing what we're good at and love doing. We need to be whole to engage in this work. Hence the relevance and power of an integral life practice.

In the context of my previous posts, this seems rather a propos! Enough for now though... It's time to nip into the shower and complete the process of readying myself for the day!