Dave Snowden

JULY 7, 2012

From time to time in knowledge management circles the cry of standardisation is raised. It's just happened again with a new KM Linked In Group with the banner.accreditation association delegated to make decisions by the global KM community. A brief investigation indicates its a variant on three men and a dog, or in this case two men seeking jobs, a woman and a cat. When challenged on the pretentiousness of the title they say its just aspirational.

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Nine Shift

JULY 14, 2009

T he House transportation committee wants Congress to spend $50 billion on high speed trains, up considerably from the $8 billion now allocated. Big news on high speed trains this month!

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David Weinberger

JANUARY 17, 2012

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Mind Hacks

JUNE 26, 2009

So far, critics have managed to raise little more than smoke signals but the tinderbox may well have just been ignited by an article of scorching criticism penned by the head of the last DSM committee. The article was posted online by psychiatrist Doug Brenner who also described being kicked off the authors list for an academic paper and denounced to members of a DSM sub-committee for criticising conflicts of interest in the committee in an earlier blog post.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

MARCH 25, 2016

Emergence Alan Levine writes, "I am looking for a metaphor or a real example of something maybe complex or just larger/valuable that does not arise solely from adding up many small components. The meaning of a sentence does not arise solely from the meanings of the words that make it up.

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Harold Jarche

OCTOBER 10, 2012

An idea that is too early for its time will often get killed, especially if it gets referred to a committee. Do you work in an organization that is slow to adapt? Do you feel constrained by inept IT and HR policies?

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Mind Hacks

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Six of the 11 panelists reported financial ties during the time that the committee met, and two more reported financial ties in the five years leading up to the committee assignment, according to APA records.

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Adaptive Path

OCTOBER 27, 2014

At our Service Experience Conference, Alex Nisbett will share his story of the first Organizing Committees for the Olympic Games to explicitly design and deliver a spectator experience for the World’s greatest sporting event.

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Design Committee Conference Complexity 58

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

During the meeting, the TRB Executive Committee held a policy session on the impact of big data on transportation systems. Each of us made a short presentation which was then followed by an extensive discussion between the panel and the Committee.

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Data Issues System Education 72

Harold Jarche

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The possibilities would be greater than any central committee could plan. The Zeitgeist (spirit of the age or spirit of the time) is the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time.

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Ross Dawson

JANUARY 19, 2012

reports : A vocal opponent of SOPA and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa started KeepTheWebOpen.com , a website that allows anyone to contribute to the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, known as OPEN. Though ultimate authorship will fall to Issa, user markups and comments are expected to make their way to the draft presented to the congressional committee.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

MAY 3, 2015

Who selected the review committee? All of this was set in motion by the committee I named in my previous post. It is true that I was badly treated by my PhD committee. But this is not a case of "today affirming that the Stephen in front of the phd committee made the right decision – that there are multiple paths to research, that institutions can be circumvented and that individuals, in a networked age, have control and autonomy."

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Ross Dawson

AUGUST 21, 2013

Last week I went to the launch of an excellent issues paper created by The Committee for Sydney , titled #wethecity: Collaborating to Compete in the Digital Era.

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Dan Pontefract

MARCH 6, 2016

not to mention thwarting every attempt by the Republican National Committee to kill of their cockroach-like competitor, Trump).

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John Hagel

OCTOBER 16, 2006

Last week the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus , one of the most prominent evangelists for micro-credit in developing economies, and to the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, the lending institution that Yunus founded.

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Mind Hacks

MARCH 25, 2012

A fascinating snippet on the notorious supposed inventor of the frontal lobotomy, Egas Moniz , from an article in the Polish Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery : Egas Moniz: a genius, unlucky looser or a Nobel Committee error?

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

One of the most amazing nonprofit storytellers I ever heard in my life is Alberto Cairo (International Committee of the Red Cross) who delivered a truly inspirational speech during the International Fundraising Congress closing plenary. Storytelling is an essential fundraising skill for nonprofits.

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David Weinberger

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

thanks to the initiative of the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, a dedicated Committee of experts and members of the Parliament from the Committee on Internet Rights and Duties. An ad hoc study commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies has published a draft “Declaration of Internet Rights” that should be cause for cheers and cheer. It’s currently open for public comment at the Civici Platform — which by itself is pretty cool.

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Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Random fun from the IFYC “giddy committee.”. Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman.

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David Weinberger

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The search committee is pretty fabulous, so I have confidence that this is going to be an amazing hire. The Digital Public Library of America is looking for an executive director. This is an incredible opportunity to make a difference. I think it’d be fantastic if this person were to come out of the large, community-based Web collaboration space, but there are many other ways for the DPLA to go right.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

MAY 2, 2015

He has not done this; instead he has taken their money and put them on the committee selecting the papers that will be 'representative' of academic research taking place in MOOCs.

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Mind Hacks

APRIL 17, 2016

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Mind Hacks

APRIL 17, 2016

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Committee Policies Strategy Report 51

Mind Hacks

JULY 24, 2013

But for those purposes the changes effected from DSM-IV to DSM-5 were not worth the prodigious labour, committee meetings, fierce and sometimes acrimonious debate involved.

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Harold Jarche

AUGUST 5, 2013

Decisions were made by a committee on which compound to pursue. Institutional decision memories can describe how and why we, as an organization, chose one course of action over another.

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George Siemens

AUGUST 3, 2015

Any university that doesn’t yet have some department or committee focused on “responding systemically to innovations and change pressures” is missing an important opportunity. A few weeks ago, I received an invitation to the White House. The invitation was somewhat cryptic, but basically stated that the focus on the meeting was on quality and innovation.

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David Weinberger

OCTOBER 31, 2015

According to Wikipdia, the FNC was “was chartered by the US National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Computing, Information and Communications (CCIC) to act as a forum for networking collaborations among US federal agencies…” It was dissolved in 1997.

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Policies Committee Network Report 18

Ross Dawson

JULY 8, 2014

Founder Drummond Reed has co-chaired the committees for the OASIS XDI protocol that underlies the protected sharing of identity and relationship data, though he emphasizes that the legal infrastructure of agreements is in fact an even more important enabler.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 6, 2011

The only reason Tim Berners-Lee has yet to be awarded a Nobel Prize is that the prize committee has yet to establish a category for his sort of genius. This is the NeXT machine on which. Tim Berners-Lee invented the web. It was twenty years ago today, Sir Tim taught the band to play.

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Harold Jarche

JULY 29, 2011

NYT: The Auteur vs. the Committee – via @petervan. Not committee consensus-builders. Tweet Here are some of the things that were shared via Twitter this past week. jonhusband – “Noticed in office … article titled “ Learning Is Social, Training Is Irrelevant &#. from Training Magazine, November 1997 … yes, 1997 &#.

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Euen Semple

JUNE 5, 2013

Now I am not naive, your average company is not going to tolerate management by committee on a huge scale, or some sort of workers cooperative, but equally people are eventually going to wake up and realise that they have had their ability to influence the world around them eroded.

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Dave Snowden

MARCH 23, 2011

Disintermediation which means enabling the direct contact between decision maker (which can be a ritualised collective identity as well as an individual or committee) and raw material without interpretative layers.

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Committee Case Study Patterns Study 66

Dan Pontefract

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In Australia, a recent report by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) suggests 40 percent of all jobs — more than 5 million— face the likelihood of being replaced by computers in the next 10 to 15 years.

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Culture Technology Delicious Committee 68

David Weinberger

JANUARY 13, 2013

Aaron founded Demand Progress and helped found the Progressive Change Campaign Committee , pioneering grassroots political groups. Of course Aaron was a legendary prodigy of a hacker in the sense of someone who can build anything out of anything. But that’s not what the media mean when they call him a hacker.

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David Weinberger

JANUARY 4, 2012

We’ll do this as openly as possible, relying upon the community to help at every phase, but this will be our core work during the first phase of the platform’s development, leading up to an April 26 DPLA Steering Committee meeting. For the past 1.5 years or so, I’ve been co-director, along with Kim Dulin, of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. Among the projects we’ve been working on is LibraryCloud, a multi library metadata server.

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Dan Pontefract

MAY 20, 2014

As Wikipedia suggests , “The organization began in New Orleans during a training committee meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in 1942.

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Dave Snowden

AUGUST 11, 2011

Medical and academic research requires proposals to be first approved by an ethics committee. Now this is an adventuresome proposal but imagine a company that set up such a committee composed of the worthy but pragmatic; ideally from outside of the organisation.

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David Weinberger

MARCH 22, 2015

The House Judiciary Committee has posted a page with ten gifs to explain to the nation’s youth the folly of President Obama’s immigration actions. Hat tip to Peter Kaminski

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

JANUARY 31, 2013

My PhD committee at the U of A absolutely refused to consider my dissertation proposal on connective models of learning, inference and discovery (see here ). I was asked, "I am interested in your perspective on what you feel may be the greatest scholarly contribution you have made in the area of online learning, particularly your recent contributions on OER?

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

the United Way Committee or neighborhood watch). Communities can exist internally (the United Way Committee) or externally (the chefs). Third post in a series. In case you missed it, here are the first and second. INFRASTRUCTURE. Technological infrastructure for social learning.

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