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Knowledge Mobilization (KMb): Multiple Contributions & Multi-Production Of New Knowledge

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It’s Time To Unite With The Power Of Knowledge Mobilization (KMb)

Knowledge is not about ruling or conquering anyone. Sharing knowledge for social benefit is about helping one another to live in happiness, not in misery. Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) is about making room for everyone’s knowledge if it can make the world a better place.

The world is rich with a diversity of knowledge through personal experiences, but when greed and hate create knowledge that poisons us all, it can lead to misery and even bloodshed. We have developed an ability to share knowledge faster and more efficiently than any other generation in history with digital devices that can contribute to greater knowledge mobilization for greater social benefit – yet selfish or righteous knowledge can leave us cynical and blind to the greater power of knowledge sharing for social benefit.

Without the deeper significance of kindness – and not simply cleverness – in knowledge, selfish and righteous knowledge can lead to violence and a world that is lost. The Internet has brought us closer together as human beings. The very nature of social media is about sharing knowledge and the ability to create a world of knowledge connections that can lead  us to a greater universal understanding in our common humanity.

In this KMbeing blog, it is my sincere hope that my knowledge sharing and mobilization can reach out and touch many people throughout the world who find despair or embarrassment in their own knowledge or the knowledge of their communities when knowledge does not contribute to greater global understanding.  I have been honored and privileged to connect with blog followers in over 55 countries from around the world – and counting.

Some knowledge can make us victims and imprison us in systems of limited beliefs. Through knowledge mobilization, we can combine our diversity of knowledge and experiences from around the world and create new knowledge for universal benefit that can move us away from misery, despair, the bitterness of humanity, and the selfish or righteous knowledge that can hold us back from making the world a better place for everyone.

The progress of knowledge mobilization is the progress of humanity. Selfish or righteous knowledge can be eliminated and knowledge dictators can pass away if we all become knowledge mobilizers for social benefit. Never let knowledge enslave you, but rather let knowledge free you in the power of knowledge sharing to make the world a better place that can bring about better lives for everyone.

We all have the power of knowledge mobilization when we are open to the knowledge of others and open to sharing our knowledge – whether it be limited or extensive. We all have the power to make this world a better place through knowledge mobilization when it is shared for the beauty of social benefit for everyone.

KMb challenges us not to fight but unite for a better world – a world that values knowledge sharing from all walks of life and is open to listening to united human voices of knowledge for benefit and not harm. Knowledge mobilization can bring about a new and more decent world of human understanding that can give us all a chance to work together through knowledge sharing.

It’s time to unite to free the world with the power of knowledge mobilization, and do away with the barriers of selfish or righteous knowledge, and the greed and hate that creates knowledge that poisons us all. It’s time to unite for a world of new knowledge creation that respects the dignity of all our humanity and its diversity of knowledge. It’s time to unite for a world that combines this diversity of knowledge to create new knowledge to make the world a better place for everyone.  It’s time to unite for a  world where knowledge will lead to the progress of all humanity and the happiness of all humanity – where every person is joined in the power of knowledge mobilization.

Defining The Digital Researcher (Part Two)

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In an earlier blog I explained how the term Digital Researcher is fairly new to describe an emerging style of research that exclusively uses the Internet for data collection and knowledge mobilization.  I mentioned that I couldn’t even find a definition in one of the key Internet encyclopedic sources…Wikipedia, and asked if there were any takers up to the task of starting a new Wikipedia entry. As I use this title to describe my work, I decided it was time to submit my own Wikipedia entry to define what I do.

A Digital Researcher is a person who uses digital technology such as computers or a PDA and the Internet, especially the World Wide Web, to do research (see also internet research). A Digital Researcher seeks knowledge as part of a systematic investigation with the specific intent of publishing research findings in an online open access journal.  The intent is also to acquire research knowledge exclusively from the Web while also using the Web to inform further research and knowledge mobilization.  Although this research can be both quantitative and qualitative it does not necessarily follow strict internet research ethics using the formal scientific method as it involves collaboration using social media with public input to inform research and knowledge mobilization. There are a number of objections to this stance, which are all relevant to Wikipedia research.[1] [4] and research ethics.[1] The usual view is that private and public spaces become blurred on the Internet.[2] [3].

Research may also be formally published in academia through peer-reviewed journals or through the further use of social media. Digital researchers are involved with Basic research or Applied research using data analysis software such as SPSS or JMP.

The term Digital Research was originally used to describe a now defunct company created by Dr. Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related products. It was the first large software company in the microcomputer world.

In my earlier blog my definition was shorter, but was expanded in the Wikipedia definition for greater reference-linking and understanding. It’s my hope that other Digital Researchers or anyone wishing to provide input will contact me and contribute to improving or further informing the credibility of this Digital Researcher definition. Please also feel free to contribute to the Wikipedia definition. I look forward to hearing your views. Thanks.

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