• investigating online narrative as a tool for building and sharing what we know, in and out of the ivory tower
  • a text evolving in public, by Cory Allen Heidelberger... and open to suggestion

Changing Identity, Changing Blogs: Saying Goodbye and Hello

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 21:57 — CAHeidelberger
Lilia Efimova wrote her doctoral dissertation on blogging practices of knowledge workers. She blogged about her Ph.D. dissertation as she wrote it, which I found to be stinkin' cool, a model of what every Ph.D. student (especially those in information systems) ought to do. I cited her a couple times here and in my DSU papers. I included her blog in my RSS Info/Sys stream. 

And now she's gone.

Blogging as Tenkeskriving: Developing Ideas Through Writing

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 10:01 — CAHeidelberger
Tenkeskriving is the only Norwegian word I know. Jill Walker Rettberg stuck it in my vocabulary, and I'm glad to have it. Tenkeskriving -- "thinking-writing" -- captures what I've felt for years about much of my writing. From private journaling to public blogging (with a few academic papers in between), I've always used writing to figure out what I know, strengthen the shaky points, and develop my swilring thoughts into coherent statements that I can share and defend.

Blogging for Knowledge Workers... Personal KM Path to Social KM?

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 16:46 — CAHeidelberger
Lilia Efimova provides a good summary of the benefits of blogging for knowledge workers (knowledge workers: if the physical artifacts of your day's labor are documents, or if you don't produce any physical documents at work, that's you). If you're trying to explain to your co-workers or your boss why blogging would be good for your organization, Efimova's explanation is a good place to start.

USF "Theatre of Social Change" Course Uses Blogs

Fri, 01/08/2010 - 15:48 — CAHeidelberger
Kim Bartling, professor of communication studies and theater at the University of Sioux Falls, posts the blogs of her students in USF’s CST409 Theatre of Social Change:
In Sioux Falls:

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 14:07 — CAHeidelberger
To see keeping a conversation going as a sufficient aim of philosophy, to see wisdom as consisting in the ability to sustain a conversation, is to see human beings as generators of new descriptions rather than beings one hopes to be able to describe accurately.
— Richard Rorty
Rorty, R. (1979). Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton, p. 378.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 14:06 — CAHeidelberger
Richard Rorty suggests that because language is opaque and prevents our experience from being a "mirror of nature," the philosophic enterprise should turn away from the inquiry into ultimate truths and toward participation in conversation.
— Donald Polkinghorne
Polkinghorne, D. (1988). Narrative knowing and the human sciences. Albany, NY: State University of New York.

Authority Zen: Multiple Voices Necessary, So Write Online!

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 13:45 — CAHeidelberger
Lincoln (1997) tells me all texts are partial. To even approach telling the whole story, we need multiple voices.

From Coding to Context: Social Media Require Social Research

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 12:46 — CAHeidelberger
Reviewing my notes from Tierney and Lincoln (1997), I return to their declaration of principles to which they feel bound as authors of Representation and the Text (pp.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 12:25 — CAHeidelberger
We are bound first by the commitment to "break the science habit".... We are sober resistors to ... the "tyranny of science," the norming and normalization of structuralism, the imprisoning strictures of science that create silences.
— William G. Tierney and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Tierney, W. G., & Lincoln, Y. S. (1997). Introduction: Exporations and Discoveries. In W. G. Tierney & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Representation and the Text: Re-framing the Narrative Voice (pp. 57-79). Albany, NY: State University of New York.

Social Knowledge Management -- Seminar Presentation

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 17:13 — CAHeidelberger
I presented a brief overview of social knowledge management for our online seminar course here at Dakota State University last Friday. Here are the slides, courtesy of SlideShare:
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