Logical Thinking . This seminar considers the elements of logical thinking, and was aimed at graduate students. The topics included:

• thinking elements,
• knowledge and facts,
• logic and reasoning,
• divergent and convergent thinking,
• question types,
• sorting and categorisation, and
• argument maps.

Regards Graham

 The Early Results of a Social Network Analysis of the KM4Dev Main Discussion Group . This is a pre-publication article, which will be published in the September 2012 issue of the KM4Dev Journal. The abstract reads as follows.

This paper presents the early results of a social network analysis of the KM4Dev Main Discussion Group. 10 complete years of data, and two years of incomplete data, were provided for analysis. Data was in an XML format and required a considerable iterative data cleansing exercise. Ultimately this process left 703 identified individuals in the network. These people comprise the node-set for the public bounded or contained network, for which activity and various network measures can be applied. Gloor’s Contribution Index was used to attribute and partition the network. 113 key participants were identified as being crucial to the health of the active public network; however this group appears to be in decline. Overall the Main Discussion Group of the KM4Dev community appears to be a “knowledge seeking” network rather than a “knowledge sharing” network.