Comments on: Lead with what you want, not what you have

By: Joitske

Joitske — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:18:55 +0000

Hi Nancy, I don’t have experience with wikis where you hope people will find the wiki and contribute (like wikipedia). I think it might be easier to find groups that will USE the wiki because they work in the same area. For instance PSO learning facilitators could use the toolkit and contribute to it.

Somehow, though, if you haven’t been involved in the set up of the wiki, you don’t easily contribute to it. At least that is my own experience.. (of course this is completely contradicted by wikipedia, but there the goal is compelling enough)

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:04:41 +0000

Yup, I see that too, Eva. Our organizational and/or professional cultures create barriers to asking for help or admitting we don’t know. I wonder how many of us it takes to role model it is ok not to know before a culture will change? For scientists, that probably isn’t enough. It is institutionalized from university training on, eh?

By: Eva Schiffer

Eva Schiffer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:41:12 +0000

This is an interesting thought. I think that one of the reasons we feel so much more comfortable creating information dumps than platforms for engagement is this fear of looking stupid if you admit: These are all the things I don’t know!

And as researchers we have been brought up to not put ourselves out there with anything unless it is a peer reviewed journal article.