Replying to LO29288 --
Dear Organlearners,
Chris Macrae <wcbn007@easynet.co.uk> writes:
>Please could you tell us a bit more about how The World
>Cafe format achieves the follow through.
Greetings dear Chris,
You may have a look at
< http://www.theworldcafe.com >
You will find the story of its birth at
< http://www.theworldcafe.com/storybirth.html >
>I am developing conversational thread in various Knowledge
>Management areas along the lines that KM has become
>technology introverted, has lost touch with the people within
>its systems, and needs to marry with an occasional Open
>Space or other method where the people come alive to learn
>face to face from each other and to renew networks and wider
>social understandings of the full human bandwidth of their peers
>rather than the narrowwidth mediated by 2 dimensional screens
>and a chain of computers.
I can understand your frustration since knowledge which dwells within the
mind is far different from information which exists outside the mind.
The World Cafe, the Open Space, the Indaba (the indigenous South African
version) and similar arrangements depend on the experiences and tacit
knowing of participants. The less such experiences and tacit knowing or
the more the avoiding of them, the less these arrangements will work.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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