seven_foundational_practices


 * Analysis of simple ontologies as innovation and changing practice**

(//see// multiple_narratives for background)
 * Somatics ladder of seven foundational practices** (Denning & Dunham, 2006)
 * 1) //Sensing// new possibilities
 * 2) //Envisioning// new realities
 * 3) //Offering// new outcomes
 * 4) //Executing// plans and tools
 * 5) //Adopting// new practice(s)
 * 6) //Sustaining// integration into surroundings
 * 7) //Leading// with care, courage, value, power, focus, destiny, and speech act fluency

This research reveals multiple conversations. While the case studies of CoPs portals (e.g. companycommand; postgrad_essentials, and the research of the Semantic Web are miles apart, and would appear to have little in common in terms of the //practice// building and using community web portals, the multiple visions for the use of simple Web ontologies suggests a number of possibly related discursive points of view.

Denning and Dunham use the "language action framework [to help] identify seven practies that constitute the innovation skill set." They also claim that, "Innovation occurs when a group or community adopts new practice," (2006, p. 52).

My approach is to assume that the adoption of new tagging and content classification practices (e.g. the user of FOAF and other simple ontologies is (or will be) a new practices for groups or communities of people. Thus I am interested in the //somatics ladder// of discourse and innovation around simple ontologies's changing practice.

What follows: Sensing: blogging's discourse; wiki discourse, SNS discourse, CoPs portals discourse, community driven metadata discourse, pragmatic web discourse, etc. Envisioning: blogging, wikis, SNS, CoPs portals, community driven metadata, pragmatic web. offering, //etc// executing, //etc// adopting, //etc// sustaining, //etc// leading //etc//
 * 1) Each technology Blogging, wikis, SNS, CoPs portals, community driven metadata, pragmatic web ...; each outlined and described according to each element from Denning and Dunham's somatics ladder of seven foundational practices, as listed above.
 * 2) the observations are aggregated, i.e.

Denning and Dunham's analyse blogging as an example, which they define as "the practice of providing ones diary ... via a 'Web-log' Web site", (2006, p. 52). They continue > The idea of [blogging] first appeared in 1997. Open source software developers contributed tools that helped bloggers create Web dits and readers manage their subscriptions. The idea propagated via Internet discussion groups. ... This example is interesting because there was no single inventor or innovator, only a community coordinating through Internet discussion groups. (Denning and Dunham, 2006, p. 52)

Denning and Dunham argue that, in the case of blogging, "The seven practices were there, distributed among many people, but not one took responsibility for the whole." They speculate that "It is difficult to say how common [this sort of] 'distributed innovation' ... will be in the years ahead," 2006, p. 52)