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Dave Pollard posted a piece last week asking us to think about where we get our ideas. It is a good article, full of sound advice. Check it out at How to Save the World

The Idea: A nine-step process for setting up a Continuous Environmental Scan in your organization, or just for your own use."

Now, in my obsession these days of exploring the "community perspective" of an idea (an outgrowth of our work on the Technologies for Communities report), it struck me that David has potentially described a community perspective on sharing ideas, knowledge, etc. Look at his 9 elements, particularly

• #3 Discover Infomediaries
  
• #5 Add Together, Stir and Sift
  
• # 6 Add Value
  
• #9 Have conversations about 'what it means'

These are things that communities can be very good at... often better than we can do alone.

So, how do you include your community in your continuous environmental scan? How do they include you?

technologyforcommunity, KM, community, CoP

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