Author Archives: George Pór

Experiment in contemplative co-tweeting

Posted on July 22, 2009 by George Pór

This blogpost builds on and extends the ideas introduced in the Chaordic Dialogue Practice. Both there and here, I am passionately curious of what would become possible, what we could gain access to individually and together, if we decided to … Continue reading →

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Autonomous commons groups as drivers of the transition, their CI, and the CI they are part of

Posted on July 4, 2009 by George Pór

A good interview opens new conversations by triggering more questions than it answers. I”m grateful to Christiana Wyly for interviewing James Quilligan and for the new questions that their conversation made possible to ask. “[T]he real epistemic break is happening … Continue reading →

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Chaordic Chat Practice

Posted on April 16, 2009 by George Pór

This practice starts by breaking the habit of giving and receiving immediate response in real-time conversations, texting, on skype or on the phone. It gives access to a fuller intelligence of the parties in communication. When we take any insight, … Continue reading →

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Obama, collective intelligence, and Current TV

Posted on November 10, 2008 by George Pór

Al Gore made an intriguing comment about the presidential election at the recent Web 2.0 Summit. “One of the reasons we were all thrilled Tuesday night is it was pretty obvious this was a collectively intelligent decision.” That made me … Continue reading →

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Combining social and electronic technologies for large-scale, collaborative meaning making

Posted on October 11, 2008 by George Pór

Large-scale, collaborative meaning making is a vital condition for dealing with crises and turning breakdowns into breakthroughs, locally and globally. To be effective, the social technologies for facilitating that transformation need to be supported by the best what emergent electronic … Continue reading →

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The CI deficit of the dominant way of organizing work

Posted on September 17, 2008 by George Pór

Philippe Dancause, a Canadian practitioner of various social technologies of collective intelligence shared some insights of great clarity in his blog that I roughly translated as follows. “In most organisations, there are very few real forums that allow the emergence … Continue reading →

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Our steady attention…

Posted on August 30, 2008 by George Pór

Our steady attention to what is moving us in the luminous moments of co-inspiration transforms the fleeting experience into continuous celebration of the awakening of the collective learner to its potential for higher intelligence and wisdom, capable to hold more … Continue reading →

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“What the hell are all these connections and social media for?”

Posted on July 21, 2008 by George Pór

I rarely choose to fall even further behind on my GTD Next Action list, by adding a comment to blogposts, which may never will be read, but your intriguing question caught me because I’ve been asking myself, for quite a … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Academic Research in CI, CI & Communities of Practice, CI Within, Collaborative Sense-Making, Presencing, Shared Attention, Ways of Tuning with Collective Consciousness | Leave a comment

A software substrate for collective intelligence

Posted on March 8, 2008 by George Pór

Shawn Murphy says, he is “creating an online digital ecosystem in which knowledge, logic and presentation can all evolve in a globe-spanning, self-organizing, peer to peer system of web servers which is… also the software substrate for an emergent global … Continue reading →

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