Re: Knowledge is manufactured?

[John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

We are transfer agents. We transfer knowledge from one set of minds to 
another. And we do add value in the process.

Purely ephemeral ideas may be communicated from one individual to 
another, but we make it so that it can be communicated to many people.

We make sure that the information is written down or is otherwise 
accessible.

We ensure there is some sort of permanency to the information.

We make sure it's something that can be read and understood and which 
creates understanding within the recipient.

We make it referenceable so that people can find what they're looking 
for within the body of knowledge.

There is a sense of turning data into information, and turning 
information into knowledge that is part of the equation, too.

So .. we're more than parrots, more than word extrusion modules. We are 
truly value-add information resources.

My 2¢,

John Garison







Dan Goldstein said the following on 8/3/2007 2:28 PM:
> WADR to Bear's cool Zen approach, tech writers don't manufacture
> knowledge. We acquire it and (if we're lucky) transmit it to other
> people.
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