Nepôsts – Rascunhos Compartilhados

Companies should respond to online attacks with the truth – Barry Libert and Rick Faulk – from my phrase collection in Portuguese

As we know them today, companies are the result of a long process initiated with the Industrial Revolution, after the arrival of the printed book, which created an environment for information exchange highly favorable [...]

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We shouldn’t have illusions – the Internet didn’t come to save the world. José Saramago, from my phrase collection in Portuguese.

(Well, I’ll continue to talk a bit more about ideas going through my mind after the RioInfo debate.)
Here are some theoretical premises for reflection on the role of the Internet in the world.

1- We always [...]

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I understand projects 2.0 as looking at the ground without letting the sky out of sight – Rômulo Rocha, an employee who participated in the Wikishop to discuss the project 2.0 in Dataprev – from my phrase collection in Portuguese.

(This article in Portuguese.)
As I wrote in this blog, there are two collaborative trends underway [...]

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According to Google Scholar, “Motivation and Personality,” by AH Maslow, 1970, Harper & Row, is a book often quoted by researchers working in many areas.
The author created a simple pyramid to describe human needs.
A good translation and definition of this pyramid can be found in the paper “FATORES MOTIVACIONAIS DA COMUNIDADE CIENTÍFICA PARA PUBLICAÇÃO E [...]

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I’ve been exchanging Tweets with Pierre Lévy.

He mentioned that he would come to Brazil in August.
I asked him for an interview by e-mail, because I was curious about his current work.
Generously, he sent me his e-mail address and the interview was done.
Here is the result:
(A versão em português pode ser vista aqui.)
Nepô – You have [...]

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We have always organized ourselves in networks.
We’ve always needed knowledge and information for our survival.
Thus, I don’t think it’s accurate to state that we are the first knowledge, information or networked society.
According to this view, humanity would not have a history.
A new society in which some things that hadn’t been seen before emerged from nothing, [...]

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In 2007, when I gave my talk on Web 2.0  in São Paulo, Brazil, we took along a young woman in full beekeeper gear to provoke the audience.
The woman circulated among the audience. Nobody was quite sure how beekeeping rhymed with cutting-edge technology. When Marcos Cavalcanti and I launched our book, “Conhecimento em Rede,” [...]

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My Gengibre´s Podcast:

The difference between data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
Text of Podcast:
There is a certain confusion between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
Data is like a raindrop.
You are walking and feel one, two, three drops.
This doesn’t mean it’s raining.
It could be an air conditioner dripping in a hot summer day.
When you look at the sky and [...]

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If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him (Seneca).
We are living through an unprecedented event in human history: in just one generation we have passed through three knowledge platforms: from a digital platform (1950-1990) to networks (1995-2004), and, from the latter, to collaborative networks (2004-?).

Why [...]

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Hardly anything could be more against common sense than the recent dismissal of  4,000 Embraer employees.
Embraer is clearly part of the Brazil of knowledge, cutting-edge technology. Surely its employees have quite often heard the notion that “we need to share knowledge.”
But, when push comes to shove, when it hits rock bottom, the shareholder’s logic and [...]

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