Category Archives: Collaborative Sense-Making

From hardware-based sensors of the physical to software-based sensors of the social

Posted on September 20, 2009 by George Pór

Quotes in this blogpost are from “Ecological Computing,” by John Seely Brown and Feng Zhao. Confluences and their combined confluence Looking back at the first decades of the third millennium, humans will see them as the era of the Great Transition, an … Continue reading →

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Report on the first contemplative co-tweeting, Part 1: What happened

Posted on July 26, 2009 by George Pór

Twitter is an intensely personal experience, yet a communal one, at the same time. However, those two dimensions never meet. Our individual tweets create the value of the whole, yet we only benefit individually from the information we receive or … 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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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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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 →

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The collective intelligence of functional mutations

Posted on August 24, 2007 by George Pór

Evolution’s Edge from Best Futures says: Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that all the necessary elements of a sustainable system will develop quickly enough to prevent irreversible environmental and social damage. Major evolutionary transformations only occur after a critical number … Continue reading →

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CI by collaborative sense-making in participatory video

Posted on August 20, 2007 by George Pór

Talking about the phases of collaborative film making, Kent Bye wrote in Building a Theory of Collaborative Sensemaking | Echo Chamber Project: The ideal collaborative sensemaking system would allow people to add their own context through each of these phases … Continue reading →

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