Comments for Knowledge processes powered by questions

Comment from Denham on 2004-04-25

2004-04-25T12:35:55Z

Questions sure are an important ingredient of knowledge making. I assume you are familiar with AskMe - a tool that creates a workflow around questions, routing to 'experts' based on their profiles.

http://organik.kmworld.com/organik/orbital/content/latest_questions.jsp

Here are links to working with questions in KM I've collected:

http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?PowerofQuestions

Comment from Valdis on 2004-04-25

2004-04-25T17:01:21Z

IMHO, creating a structured app around an emergent activity like questions and search will not work. It's the same old problem of nailing jelly to the wall.

How can tech SUPPORT an emergent process/practice, instead of capture/cement the process/practice?

Comment from Jack Vinson on 2004-04-29

2004-04-30T03:19:24Z

Valdis is right. We can't create software to encode emergent activity. But there needs to be some ways to enable the discussions and to spread what has been learned to the other members of the organization. Typical software focus talks about members creating content, but this doesn't make sense in every environment. What about encouraging the questions and getting people to discuss the resulting "answers."

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2006-01-25T03:45:20Z

I discovered Anti-Knowledge by Bruce LaDuke recently. What struck me was the central role he gives to the power of the question in his framing of how human knowledge develops. [Read More]