I’ve decided to create a new blog rather than post these entries in my personal blog – http://www.jeremyvernon.com/ for a number of reasons – the audiences are different, the purpose is different and I hope to expand the authorship to include a group larger than just me.
What’s the purpose of OrgCog?
OrgCog will serve as a place for me to craft my thinking about the issue of how groups of people coordinate their actions to accomplish certain behaviour. It will include discussions about knowledge management, computing, organizational theory, politics, cognitive science, communications and the like. I hope to examine ideas surrounding how and why things happen within organizations, what the current research is on the subject and perhaps discover or illuminate solutions.
Sounds technical.
While some technical information will be reposited, I think in large part the purpose of the blog is to provide an outlet for me to explain these concepts in simple terms – to test my knowledge through communication and in that way solidify my own understanding of the domain.
So, is this a hobby or a job?
Right now, given that I’m an academic, it will be largely a hobby – though I hope to convert the research I uncover here and the ideas I investigate in this blog into projects that may one day expand into money-making ventures – while this is a desired outcome it is not the primary purpose of this blog or my investigations, ultimately I hope that the things I write about in here will be of interest and more importantly useful to those in a position to make changes happen.
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