denotes premium content | Sep 3 2010 Regular
posted 17 Dec 2009 in Volume 4 Issue 2
Thought leader
I am often asked what is a knowledge café, or what is a Gurteen knowledge café, and how does a knowledge café differ from a world café? Let me explain.
The term knowledge café is a general term that is applied to many different processes and applications. Some people call their blogs or websites ‘knowledge cafes’; others hold online or virtual knowledge cafés and many workshops are dubbed knowledge cafés. The term has no standard meaning.
But, predominantly, most people understand a knowledge café to be about bringing people together face-to-face to have a group conversation of some description. It is a ‘conversational process’ that focuses on dialogue and ‘conversational café’ or ‘café’ are often used as generic terms to refer to any format of café.
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