by Jim McGee
February 3, 2009 at 8:13 am
· Filed under KM
I’m working on a report for a client about knowledge management and knowledge sharing and I am deliberately avoiding the question of defining "knowledge." I’ve learned that it’s a rat hole of interesting coffee shop conversation that ultimately produces little of value. On the other hand, I started playing with the idea of words that you might use during the conversation. Combine that with Twitter, constrain the problem, and see what results. I posted the following Tweet yesterday to start things off:
So far that’s led to contributions from @shifted, @hjarche, @hylton, @coyenator, and @rsukumar. Here’s the list as of this morning, which I’ve split between verbs and nouns (we seem to be a bit short on the noun side):
Catalog
Categorize
Cite
Classify
Coalesce
Codify
Collaborate
Collate
Collect
Comment
Communicate
Conceive
Connect
Consult
Constrain
Construct
Convert
Coordinate
Craft
Create
Critique
Crystallize |
Community
Construct
Conversation |
What would you like to add to the list?
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Some nouns to help you fill your tank: cognition, content. Not to mention some nominal forms of the verbs, such as catalog (as a noun), category, and concept, that are as or more basic than the listed verb forms.
Finally:
COGN comes from the Latin cognoscere," to get to know". We may recognize "know again" the root in some words, but in quaint and acquaint French has altered it beyond recognition. cognitive, cognizance, cognoscente, incognito (via http://www.chineseupress.com/promotion/merriam/ro...
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cohere
concatenate
cram
cook (as in cook up some)
co-create
coerce 
calculate
canvas (v.)
capture
case (as in study)
censor
centralize
certify
certificate
characterize
chart
check
cluster
circumstantiate
circulate
circumscribe
circumvent
claim
clinic
client
club
closed
coax
coincident
cognate
collage
collective
collude
combine
combinations
commix
command
common
commodity
compare
compartmentalize
compass (v.)
compendium
compatible
compute
compile
conditional
concise
conceal
conform
confide
connote
congruous
conscious
consequential
constrict
consolidate
consider
conserve
conspicuous
constant
constitute
construe
consummate
contingent
convergent
contradictory
contractual
controlled
controvert
contrive
cooperative
core
course
counsel
critical
cryptic
cultural
cumulate
cursory
current
curate (v.)
customize
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MatthewFebruary 5th, 2009 at 1:25 pm |
convey
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DuniaFebruary 6th, 2009 at 10:59 am |
contribute, contiguity, context….In italian "knowledge" itself is a C-world, obviously: conoscenza.
Ciao
How about share?
I thought it would be more fun to constrain the problem in an arbitrary way to see what would happen than to try to capture every word that might apply. Based on what I've seen so far, it's been more fun to play with the constraint even at the expense of other equally relevant words such as "share."
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SumeetFebruary 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm |
Even KM is so over used, mis understood, mis represented and abused….is better replaced with "Collective Intelligence"
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