The need to go on searching for answers

I enjoyed the style of your(s) closing message: poetic though very assertive in what concerns the need to go on searching for answers...

I could say, citing one sentence you used: "It felt like we sat around the camp fire telling each other stories...", that this is the very original way of passing knowledge (in the most variate fields) from one generation to the other, and this is like a 'lost competecence' that maybe we have to rebuilt nowadays.

Is Internet an instrument that facilitates that? I believe so, even I agree with all that say: face-to-face cannot be substituted. But this search for a 'common understanding' (which is deeply related with KM) of problems, this building of a kind of 'global will' that makes one look for the one specific kind of information that looks more adequate in a certain moment, is a direct result of communication facilities we have access to.

So, in spite of changing wheels for shoes (or even walked barefoot in the end...), it's surely worth not only to think on what was said and shared but also on how is it necessary to use this communication facilities to firm these 'global informal' conversation (around the virtual camp fire or at the virtual café) and make it last.

Thank you for the effort and I would like to contribute as allways. All the best,

Susana Neto

(CIR-AQUA) Portugal