RE: [Kb-complexity] Round Up, SIG News and Need for Content

"HALL Bill" <Bill.Hall@Tenix.com> · Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:46:48 +1000

Carol,

Thanks for the advert for my work. Please note that there are also other
relevant papers on my web site - especially relating to the nature of
knowledge in the organizational environment. See
http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/Index/PapersandPresentations.htm
.

There is also a useful link and forum in the complex systems area I
discovered only a few days ago that connects with a lot of new work
going on in the USA - The New England Complex Systems Institute -
http://www.necsi.org/. They also have a very active, but hard to find
forum on technical and scientific aspects of complex systems -
http://www.necsi.org/discuss/discuss.

Regards,

Bill 

William P. (Bill) Hall, PhD
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[mailto:kb-complexity-bounces@list.knowledgeboard.com] On Behalf Of
Carol Webb
Sent: Wednesday, 14 June 2006 7:42 PM
To: KnowledgeBoard: Complexity group mailing list
Subject: [Kb-complexity] Round Up, SIG News and Need for Content

Dear All

Hi, and I hope you are all well. I noticed there are a
few new members to this mailing list recently - please
introduce yourselves as we would like this forum to be
as vibrant as possible, which will be made easier if
we have more of an idea about who is here.

Apologies for being a bit quiet on this list recently.
Firstly I have been waiting for the technical launch
of the new SIG on the KB before trying to generate
next steps between us. Secondly, I've been away at a
friend's wedding in Greece (they really are 'big fat
Greek weddings!'), having graduation here at
Cranfield, planning my next holiday (any tips on Cuba
anybody??? :-) and also writing some urgent
deliverables. But enough of all my excuses! Back to
matters at hand...

Re the launch of the new SIG... The space is there... and
it is very empty at the moment. We now need content.
Sift (the technical hosts of the SIG) have asked for
content to be uploaded before it is announced more
formally within the KnowledgeBoard at large.
Therefore, while I have a few things I could put up
there, I don't want to dominate it and give the wrong
idea (i.e. put all my stuff up and people start
thinking I am into shameless self-promotion... nothing
wrong with a bit of that from all of us by the way -
but it might be better if there was a concerted effort
en mass). So, to see how empty the current SIG space
is, go to:
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/open_groups/cso/ Sift
tell me that they are making final technical tweaks
but that it is basically live now. As this site
follows an older model of publishing, only SIG
Editors/Moderators have actual publishing rights -
i.e. are able to upload articles etc. At least that is
what I have gathered so far. Please correct me if I am
wrong anyone. What this means is that you have to send
me any content to be uploaded and I will do it. At the
end of each week I will write a brief summary of what
is up there in terms of new content, email this
mailing list and also make sure this sort of thing
gets in the newswire so we can invite people from a
wider audience to view and discuss. How does that
sound? I would actually prefer it if individuals had
publishing rights on the site, but KB isn't a wiki
(yet!) so we have to make do with what we have. 

Thanks to Peter Troxler for pointing out an invitation
to participate in giving feedback on socio-economic
sciences and humanities in an EU consultation for FP7
(see details at:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_NEWS&ACTION=D&RCN=25716).
 I would suggest that in the first instance interested
parties should perhaps co-ordinate any action in this
direction with Peter. Feel free also to discuss the
matter within the mailing list if you feel this is
appropriate (anyone not keen on multiple emails of
this kind can revert to the daily digest email option,
or, as I do, use a separate email address to receive
emails of this kind).

Bryan Bishop contacted me and raised a few pertinent
issues (sorry I haven't had the chance to respond to
you personally yet Bryan - but please do feel free to
discuss such things in the list as well). Bryan is
keen to hear ideas as where to thoughtfully explore
further, without necessarily making links to 'business
ventures'. This is a challenge as the link to
organisations already constrains and contextualises
our discussions and endeavours somewhat, but this also
presents a point for some reflection and stepping back
to think for a while why we do trundle off in some
tangents rather than others.

Bill Hall has asked for critical feedback on a paper
and presentation of his:
Paper -
http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/Index/DocumentKMOrgTheoryPapers/
Hall2006EmergenceGrowthKnowledgeDiversity(NetPaper).doc

Presentation -
http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/Index/DocumentKMOrgTheoryPapers/
Hall2006CSSWorkshopPresent(Net1).pps

Shall we all try to have a look and maybe have a bit
of an online chat about it at some point? Either here
in the mailing list or on the new SIG space?

Thanks to Mary Francis in San Francisco for
introducing herself and letting us know about those
links! (http://www.calresco.org/intro.htm;
http://www.zulenet.com/VladimirDimitrov/pages/thinking.html;
http://www.exploratorium.edu/complexity/CompLexicon/system.html;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system;
http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/rosenhead.html)
I think link sharing is great! Of course another way
to do this might be to use http://del.icio.us and link
to each others complexity links. And, if we are
sharing bibliographic references we could also set up
a group account at www.citeulike.org (it makes use of
tag clouds, which I love and think are highly
useful!). 

Victor MacGill sent an interesting email to the group
telling us about his background and interest in
applying complexity to his work as a probation
officer. Also Victor, you asked for more info on
teaching some principles of complexity (which I'd be
happy to discuss if you let me know more on what you
would like to know?). You also mentioned Victor that
you had taken part in a Cynefin workshop. I am
thinking that a few more on this list may have also
done that and since I have not I would be interested
(on this list or privately even) to hear more about
it... what did you come away with? What were the biggest
learning outcomes for you? What does it make you do or
think differently than you did before???

Alison Pinto - you mentioned your health related work
in Florida - I know there are a few on this list who
work in that sector. Maybe we should talk about what
makes complexity science so meaningful for health
related organisational contexts and what it brings to
the fore.

All good talking points I am sure you will agree.

All comments and feedback welcome.

Best wishes, Carol

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