Category Archives: Collaborative Sense-Making

on hypertrails between vistas, which we create by walking on them

Posted on June 30, 2010 by George Pór

Good tools always have unintended uses stumbled upon by its individual and collective users. Hopefully, that will be the case of élan map, too. I can hardly wait for its alpha version to manifest so that we can start playing … Continue reading →

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on junto, élan, Kosmic synchronicity, and movement cartography

Posted on June 30, 2010 by George Pór

“We are at a critical point in human history, where as a globally interdependent society, we must learn how to lower these barriers, share information, collaborate, and cocreate value in new ways.” @VenessaMiemis Learning how to learn that, and sharing … Continue reading →

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Conversation transcript-> mindmap-> semantic web-> sane sentient AI

Posted on June 27, 2010 by George Pór

Imaginal cells in the protoplasm, from which the new civilization is emerging, discover the current state of their fluid identity, by being engaged in generative conversations with one another.  When we collaborate using the currently available tools, we are able … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborative Sense-Making, Community of CI Practitioners, Connecting Our Conversations, Mental Modeling, Methodologies associated with CI, Shared Attention, Technologies That Support CI | 6 Comments

What can dynamic views (in mapping emergent systems) enable?

Posted on June 14, 2010 by George Pór

In a comment to A tool for mapping the future as it’s emerging, Glisten wrote: > The visual mapping of an evolving system is not a trivial affair. If we create a map of our “current state” we only provide … Continue reading →

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In defense of complexity

Posted on June 10, 2010 by George Pór

Somebody wrote in a group on “Transforming Capitalism” in the Presencing community  : > all complex civilisations have collapsed at one point or another. Only ‘simple’ societies have managed to survive. In the spirit of helping each other unearthing our … Continue reading →

Posted in Autonomy, Communion, and CI, Collaborative Sense-Making, Spiral Dynamics & the Colors of CI | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

Message to Venessa Miemis about her “Pay It Forward Business Model”

Posted on June 8, 2010 by George Pór

Venessa wrote a fascinating blog entry  on “A Pay It Forward Business Model [in transition to a new global society].” It prompted the following open message to her. Dear Venessa, Your “pay it forward” model is hugely inspiring in all of … Continue reading →

Posted in Co-intelligent Economy, Collaborative Sense-Making, Connecting Our Conversations, Methodologies associated with CI, Technologies That Support CI | 2 Comments

A tool for mapping the future as it’s emerging in the present

Posted on May 18, 2010 by George Pór

This blogpost is the first public news of a project that I am working on with a small team of friends; it is focused on creating a tool for the interactive, 3-d mapping of the ecosystem of evolutionary initiatives on … Continue reading →

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Collecive intelligence tools for supporting global cooperative work

Posted on December 13, 2009 by George Pór

The stellar line up of workshops at the upcoming ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work reflects the edge of CSCW research, with profound implications for the global-scale cooperative work needed to mach global challenges. Technically, it has become possible to connect … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Research in CI, Collaborative Sense-Making, Community of CI Practitioners, Questions Worth Asking, Technologies That Support CI | 2 Comments

Wrapping the conference in a blanket of collective intelligence (CI)

Posted on October 17, 2009 by George Pór

Since I published The Quest for Collective Intelligence in the anthology on “Community Building: Renewing Spirit and learning in Business” (1995), I knew that a moment will come within my lifetime, when all what we know about CI will need … Continue reading →

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Facilitating the local/global dynamics of CI calls for a collective sensing organ

Posted on September 21, 2009 by George Pór

Robin Temple commented on the Chaordic Dialogue Practice blogpost. Instead replying to it in that thread of comments, I’ve chosen to put the thoughts that it triggered in a new entry, as to give more visibility to it and our … Continue reading →

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