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David Weinberger

 




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American technologist, professional speaker

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Knowledge Sharing; Information Management; Knowledge Management

Location

United States, Boston

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David Weinberger is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto. (Credit: Wikipedia)



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Blog Post
  Grassroots KM through Blogging
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 26 March 2002

  Example Weblogs
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 29 March 2002

  Living in the Blog-osphere
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 24 August 2002

  Sites to watch for news of what's next
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 29 December 2002

  The Death of Documents and the End of Doneness
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 23 February 2003

  Christopher Lydon Interviews
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 2 May 2004

  On data, information, knowledge and wisdom
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 11 February 2010

  Education as a public act has tremendous power
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 22 August 2012

  David Weinberger at KMWorld 2012: facilitating knowledge sharing
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 18 January 2013

  Let's have more interesting conversations
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 28 May 2014

  The true complexity of the world outstrips our ability to fully explain it
Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 28 April 2019

Book
  Everything Is Miscellaneous (May 2007) by David Weinberger
The Power of the New Digital Disorder

  Small Pieces Loosely Joined (Mar 2002) by David Weinberger
A Unified Theory of the Web

  The ClueTrain Manifesto (2000) by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine , Doc Searls , David Weinberger
The End of Business as Usual

Link
  Cluetrain

Person
  David Weinberger

Quotation
  On business as a conversation by David Weinberger

  On conversation and being human by David Weinberger

  On getting to knowledge by David Weinberger

  On implicit knowledge by David Weinberger

  On KM and understanding by David Weinberger

  On knowing too much and understanding by David Weinberger

  On knowledge management and understanding by David Weinberger

  On knowledge workers & conversation by David Weinberger

  On our business voice by David Weinberger

  On our voice by David Weinberger

  On the Internet and your own voice by David Weinberger

  On the knowledge management impulse by David Weinberger



Quotations from David Weinberger:

 Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



 To have a conversation, you have to be comfortable being human - acknowledging you don't have all the answers, being eager to learn from someone else and to build new ideas together.

You can only have a conversation if you're not afraid of being wrong. Otherwise, you're not conversing, you're just declaiming, speechifying, or reading what's on the PowerPoints. To converse, you have to be willing to be wrong in front of another person.

Conversations occur between equals. The time your boss's boss asked you at a meeting about your project's deadline was not a conversation. The time you sat with your boss for an hour in the Polynesian-themed bar while on a business trip and you really talked, got past the corporate bullshit, told each other the truth about the dangers ahead, and ended up talking about your kids - that maybe was a conversation.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



 We get to knowledge — especially "actionable" knowledge — by having desires and curiosity, through plotting and play, by being wrong more often than right, by talking with others and forming social bonds, by applying methods and then backing away from them, by calculation and serendipity, by rationality and intuition, by institutional processes and social roles.

Most important in this regard, where the decisions are tough and knowledge is hard to come by, knowledge is not determined by information, for it is the knowing process that first decides which information is relevant, and how it is to be used.

David Weinberger
The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy 



 Implicit knowledge isn't explicit knowledge that we're not currently thinking about. Implicit knowledge isn't there the way ore is buried. It's "there" only in the sense that we can generate it when required.

David Weinberger
Knowledge abundance 



 But the real problem with the information being provided to us in our businesses is that, for all the facts and ideas, we still have no idea what we're talking about. We don't understand what's going on in our business, our market, and our world.

In fact, it'd be right to say that we already *know* way too much. KM isn't about helping us to know more. It's about helping us to understand. Knowledge without understanding is like, well, information.”

So, how do we understand things? From the first accidental wiener roast on a prehistoric savannah, we've understood things by telling stories. It's through stories that we understand how the world works.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



 But the real problem with the information being provided to us in our businesses is that, for all the facts and ideas, we still have no idea what we're talking about.

We don't understand what's going on in our business, our market, and our world.

In fact, it'd be right to say that we already *know* way too much.

KM isn't about helping us to know more.

It's about helping us to understand. Knowledge without understanding is like, well, information.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



 Knowledge Management should not be about helping us to know more.

It should be about helping us to understand better.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



 Here's a definition of that pesky and borderline elitist phrase, 'knowledge worker'. A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at work.

The characteristics of conversations map to the conditions for genuine knowledge generation and sharing: they're unpredictable interactions among people speaking in their own voice about something they're interested in. The conversants implicitly acknowledge that they don't have all the answers (or else the conversation is really a lecture) and risk being wrong in front of someone else. And conversations overcome the class structure of business, suspending the organization chart at least for a little while.

If you think about the aim of Knowledge Management as enabling better conversations rather than lassoing stray knowledge doggies, you end up focusing on breaking down the physical and class barriers to conversation. And if that's not what Knowledge Management is really about, then you ought to be doing it anyway.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



 We have been trained throughout our business careers to suppress our individual voice and to sound like a 'professional', that is, to sound like everyone else.

This professional voice is distinctive. And weird.

Taken out of context, it is as mannered as the ritualistic dialogue of the 17th-century French court.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



 Our voice is our strongest, most direct expression of who we are.

Our voice is expressed in our own words, our tone, our body language, our visible enthusiasms.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



 The Internet is a place where people get to speak in their own voice about what is important to them.

David Weinberger



 Knowledge management has become a hot topic precisely because we silently recognize that our information isn't yielding understanding.

But information is unsatisfying because it's managed; to make it manageable, we strip out context and voice.

So, if we identify something called knowledge and then insist on managing it, we'll repeat the problem that gave rise to our desire for knowledge.

Conclusion? If you want to get past information, you have to give up all hope of managing your - and others' - understanding of the world.

Also, you can't do it yourself: all understanding is social by definition.

David Weinberger
The ClueTrain Manifesto



If you are interested in Knowledge Management, the Knowledge Café or the role of conversation in organizational life then you my be interested in this online book I am writing on Conversational Leadership
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