Category Archives: CI & Communities of Practice

Practices and Processes for boosting CI

Posted on June 24, 2010 by George Pór

…we need to develop methods of information harvesting and storage that are able to co-evolve with the contributions and constantly improving insights of the collaborators.
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How well can collective self-reflexivity scale?

Posted on April 5, 2008 by George Pór

I woke up this morning 4 o’clock and not only because the jetlag. Yesterday was the first day of the first World Café Research Conference. Due to the delay of the flight from New York, I arrived late and when … Continue reading →

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Collective intelligence in service of Reboot

Posted on May 20, 2007 by George Pór

Reboot is “Calling all practical visionaries of the world!” It’s an event to reboot our minds, play on the edge of technology, and re-dream our culture. Its is a brainchild of Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, in its 9th successful year, happening in … Continue reading →

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Co-evolving Self and Network

Posted on February 8, 2005 by George Pór

my virtual workshop on “Boosting the Collective Intelligence of Your Network”
at Online Social Networks 2005
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What is CI? – a community approach to define it

Posted on August 4, 2004 by George Pór

There are as many definitions of CI as different kinds of discipline-oriented or mission-oriented communities practicing it. I imagine that CI for the intelligence community, or marketers using it for predicting consumer trends, has a meaning quite different from what I suggested, in an evolutionary perspective, to use by a potential community of evolutionary agents.
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What is social about “social tools”?

Posted on July 10, 2004 by George Pór

When we free the creative potential of flexible constellations of communities of interest and practice, it will boost their members’ identity, mutual care and professional pride. The emerging generation of social tools can be optimized for powering up that process. When that happens, blogs graduate from personal publishing tool and become a potent enabler of collective intelligence.
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Social learning theory can stabilize new peaks of CI

Posted on May 12, 2004 by George Pór

Social learning theory can stabilize new peaks of collective intelligence.
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Community straddling

Posted on March 23, 2003 by George Pór

I wrote about multi-membership in 2002, in blog (that a tech glitch wiped out): “Cross-functional individuals belong to multiple communities of practice, and it is the multi-membership that gives them the boundary-spanning multi-perspective, from which they can see radical innovation … Continue reading →

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Culturally strategic AND operational

Posted on March 8, 2003 by George Pór

Joe “Synchronicity“ Jaworski is not only an eloquent speaker and guru of “collaborative leadership; he is also a deeply genuine person. Since I saw him at a gathering of organizational learning professionals in Bretton Woods, in the early 90’s, I … Continue reading →

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