HI Piers/Jürgen and AACORNERS
I would concur that AACORN’s identity is somewhat of
an enigma to me. I receive the emails and have visited the site a couple of
times but it seems there is no activity.
It could be worthwhile revisiting in some way what AACORN
is about??
I am part of a facilitators email list and at times it is
very active with discussion about things related to facilitation (and at other
times left of field discussion). Often when people go to far from the field of
facilitation we see people asking to be removed from the list. Also there is a
fine line about how people promote what they do. However, mostly I find the
list worthwhile and I have learned some things. That particular network also
meets yearly for a conference in
Maybe there is an opportunity for AACORN to promote more
of what is happening in and around the field of arts and business. More
stories of what people are up to…
What else would be people be interested in and like to
know.
Cheers
Cathryn
Dr Cathryn Lloyd
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Maverick Minds
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From:
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jürgen
Bergmann
Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2011
2:30 AM
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Subject: Re: A challenge
Dear Piers,
your message expresses
in some way my perception !
.
Actually we have three
sites:
www.accorn.net - the
homepage managed by John and Ross Churchley.
www.aacorn.net/blog
– after an enthousiaste launch, the blog activities died rapidly.
www.aacorn.wikispaces.com
- we tried during two years to activate the wiki.
The activities on the
blog and the wiki are rare and limited.
I concluded for myself,
that the network – except the personal contact between individuals
– has no need of such "social activities". The art of
management and organization conference seems to satisfy the need to share ideas
and concepts. It's a research-network. It's evolution and objective is not as
obvious. But one thing is for sure, if you have specific questions about art
of/in/by management and organization you may find the one to dialogue with. As
all networks, AACORN increases the probability of fortunate circumstances. My
only objection: The higher the consciousness of the identity (of a network),
the higher this probability.
AACORNs identity still
seems a little scraggy to me :-)
Best
Jürgen
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Datum: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:53:11
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Betreff: A challenge
Dear Aacorn - an appeal- a challenge.
We live in interesting times. I am
aware of places, on the streets and on the internet, where there is
fierce debate and new ideas are erupting in response to the cataclysmic
global events of the last few years. Aacorn is not one of them.
I looked again at the list of people in
the network. An astonishing collection of wisdom, talent and experience, all
connected. The blog on our website is moribund. Who would like to engage with
me in reviving that space as a place for focused and serious debate?
I would like to hold up the INET website
as a model for us. Where the community of academic economists is engaged in a
brave debate about the future of their discipline, so thoroughly discredited by
the financial collapse of 2008.
We are linked but are we a community?
Lets talk. I have posted a contribution on the blog that I invite people to
respond to.
All the very best
Piers Ibbotson
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