pathfinding for social enterprise
dear honoured guest: please be welcome to continue peering anonymously through our (un)looking glass darkly; either by clicking almost anywhere upon the image above, or someplace to the right of and/or below this paragraph that m(a)y look like it has been shaped to know where it’s going by default, and then – if it should not be too much trouble for you to come back to this very beginning (at any stage that makes sense to you, whatsoever) – feel free to share how you fared with us by self-selecting one of the following bracketed spots {which m(a)y or m(a)y not be found, as the case m(a)y be, somewhere around here [ . ] or hear [ .. ] or just about so-so [ ... ] in light of being subject to change based on feedback received} and we’ll be happy to oblige all due sensitivities as best we can with each next lunar dawn
for the record, this aporia work and its derivatives have been emergenomically rated 47, XYY and so m(a)y contain some material only otherwise accessible (as at the time of posting) on written request under the UK freedom of information act from a growing number of distributed publicly funded bodies – so we’ve taken the initiative to reasonably cut through the red tape in advance in order to hereby declare this site now open in all good faith
as such, here’s noting our kind acknowledgements to all those, known and (un)known, knowable and (un)knowable, who have no doubt worked tirelessly in bringing these pages meticulously back into the public domain thus far and, weather permitting, as far as needs be (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, hint, hint …\o/)
psst – no HBR Special Issue, no comment
dunno pidge, EJIS Special Issues have been growing just as good this season – unabashedly “European” in flavour, and may save on carbon costings – for this accounting period at least
Well, if citation impact may be anything to go by in due course, here’s me unequivocally citing that we’re still having fun on this site getting to grips with EJIS Special Issue, Volume (13) Number 3, published September 2004
all well and good citing it, but it’s still subscription only save for the abstracts – personally prefer to consider some of the more open access friendly journals like Human Studies and Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences that Springer has been negotiating all sorts of options with over the past few years eg the papers marked with green bullets are accessible to all without having to log in
Or then there’s also our very own Social Enterprise Journal at the other end of the (un)famous rankings spectrum – still very young and just started teething, so could do with a bit of community supporting around now maybe – anyone for tea this morning btw? M(a)y have found a way to make more than one cup at a time by filling a pot, but am beginning to think that using this pot may defeat the original energy saving purpose of only brewing what we need if you’re all just going to head out for coffee instead
personally only take tea in the afternoons – prefer a cappaccino first thing, an espresso after lunch, and filter coffee after dinner – always in that order, never to deviate (last time got me into some trouble you see)
Hmm, young Panda, not sure that much caffeine can be good for you?
probably not, but beats the coke alternatives these days – ho hum – back to the grindstone, as they say
psst – just doing a sound check on that one – we are all whispering here aren’t we?
on the face of it, yes, with resonances hyperlinked as per the architecture of this gallery to begin with (courtesy of wordpress and not forgetting monotone) – though, as with many online environments, the moderators can usually see all (take elluminate conferencing, for example) which they may or may not decide to disclose to selected participants depending on their various (un)hidden agendas – this issue has been documented to some degree, but tends not be openly accessible to the participants concerned, let alone the general public, which in itself poses a derivative issue, and so on ad infinitum – forewarned may be forearmed as they say (if only for the sake of our being polite to one another, politicking aside) – should also mention that your identicon may also be a bit of a give away here in this gallery, so if you’d like our pidgeon to mask any comments to be submitted anonymously, we’ve set up an anon account to help do this – just call yourself “anon” and we’ll take that clause as read
alors, is there anyone who has a right to access to this sort of data? if the participants who are generating the data in the first place knew, perhaps they’d like to have some say in where it goes, how it goes, when it goes, etc?
well, current policies – and procurement contracts – may have been (un)advertantly harbouring an evaluator’s closed book – which should otherwise be clearly distinguishable from a scholar’s open book – and it’s our chasing this beastie that is giving rise to our continuing efforts at digitally curating this here whispering gallery which endeavours to preserve and showcase the problem at hand, if nothing else
and then there’s the language games which m(a)y be called into question if we’re “whispering” as distinct from “texting”, or “speaking”, or even “showing-and-telling” for that matter
now that’s the (un)fun part
so you must listen very carefully
and she need only WHiSPeR it once
Hallelujah !
ahh – the sweet murmurings of yet another DRY blog – organic, compustable, and bio-degradable, without compromising on aporia green recyology for as long as it m(a)y be useful
Do teas have a strict sell-by date then? Or does it all depend on the packaging? (un)Fair Trading aside of course
teas: maybe;
tea ceremonies: (un)likely;
tea parties atop aporia green: not on your nelly !
Sounds like my cue …
erm, is anyone going to mention the elephant in the gallery?
only if it’s not in the room
or the (un)room
is that the question?
Sshh … ! Our Pidgeon’s just returning
okay – not bad this – can hear you loud and clear in all manner of nooks and cranny – thank you
my evaluator has asked me to check that you all know about our vroom, courtesy of elluminate three-for-free promotion, which incidently does not have all the usual moderator privileges due to its cut down nature so that we m(a)y be encouraged to pay for an upgrade in due course, and then again we m(a)y not
as such, this means that it’s rather good for conversations off-the-record, and technologically (un)handicapped to remain so as a default in very specific ways – which, in light of issues raised above, means that it m(a)y present yet another option for us whilst in this gallery should we like to try it out
requires booking in advance, so let me know at [a dot pidgeon at aporia-works dot org] if interested – and, in answer to your last question panda, nellie has been known to use the vroom in the gallery for, amongst other non-violent pursuits, ch’i kung practice – but mum’s the word on that one, ok?
to be fair, we’ve actually been trying to persuade both pidgeon and natasha to continue reconciling their differences by playing a round-robin tournament, hosted by aporia green and umpired by the rt hon nellie, judiciously straddling both our pidgeon vroom and natasha’s “(un)vroom 47″ – using a (2+1) CPR screen set up – in time for the next mixed-doubles championships of the season, here on grassroots – but we can only dare try persuading so far, otherwise it m(a)y be counted as an outright intervention, and evaluators aren’t supposed to downright intervene (without a community’s express call for an intervention a priori) otherwise we’d risk being labeled consultants, and being labeled experts when it comes to REF peer reviewing is likely proving contentious enough – whatever happened to pure (un)adulterated scholarshiping, eh?
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