The Lord

Someone should do a geek tester that is based around seo/web dev blogging social media etc.

I picked up brokering.com.au for a project the other day and just did a little research and was suprised to see this. Very interesting!!

FOCUS on. Knowledge Brokering is being circulated with this newsletter. Knowledge brokering will be a new concept for some.

Knowledge brokering is located at the confluence of two streams of thought: the perceived need for evidence based practice and policy making and the movement towards promoting the diffusion of knowledge through interpersonal relationships or communities of practice. It is related to a number of models of the transfer of research knowledge between researchers, practitioners and policy makers.

Models of knowledge brokering vary considerably, and you can read about them in the publication, but some broad features can be discerned. Foremost of these is the role of making connections between people for the purpose of facilitating evidence based policy making or practice. Knowledge brokers are builders of relationships and networks, well informed and up to date on what is happening. They are subject experts and they have a high level of credibility with both researchers and policy makers and can be trusted. They are synthesisers of customised information and ‘insert’ that information into just the right context to make a difference but their role is not simple dissemination. Beyond this the role varies a great deal.

Many more people engage in knowledge brokering activities than have the title knowledge broker and it sounds like what many of us do routinely in our work. Primary health care people are great networkers. What sets this role apart is that there are structures supporting it. The role is often located at the centre of a formal network of organisations as in the Cooperative Research Centres or in an intermediary organisation, such as the Sax Institute in NSW. The FOCUS on. Knowledge Brokering will, I am sure, generate a lot of interest.

A copy of the publication can be downloaded from www.phcris.org.au/publications/focus/

For further information, contact:
Eleanor Jackson-Bowers
Research Associate
Ph: 08 8204 3136
E: eleanor.jackson-bowers@flinders.edu.au

Roland Barthes, From : A Lover’s Discourse : Fragments
http://www.koolpages.com/almalaika/Barthes.html

The love letter: (This figure refers to the special dialectic of the love letter, both blank (encoded) and expressive (charged with longing to signify desire).
Like desire, the love letter waits for an answer; it implicitly enjoins the other to reply, for without a reply the other’s image changes, becomes other. This is what the young Freud explains so authoritatively to his fiancee: “Yet I don’t want my letters to keep remaining unanswered, and I shall stop writing you altogether if you don’t write back. Perpetual monologues apropos of a loved being, which are neither corrected nor nourished by that being, lead to erroneous notions concerning mutual relations, and make us strangers to each other when we meet again, so that we find things different from what, without realizing it, we imagined.

The Dedication (any episode of language which accompanies any amorous gift, whether real or projected; and, more generally, every gesture, whether actual or interior, by which the subject dedicates something to the loved being).
The amorous gift is sought out, selected, and purchased in the greatest excitement — the kind of excitement which seems to be of the order of orgasm. Strenuously I calculate whether this object will give pleasure, whether it will disappoint, ot whether, on the contrary, seeming too important, it will in and of itself betray the delirium — or the snare in which I am caught. The amorous gift is a solemn one; swept away by the devouring metonomy which governs the life of the imagination, I transfer myself inside it altogether. By this object, I give you my all. It is for this reason that I am mad with excitement, that I rush from shop to shop, stubbornly tracking down the “right” fetish, the brilliant, successful fetish which will perfectly suit your desire.
I have this fear: that the given object may not function properly because of some insidious defect: If it is a box, (selected very carefully), for example, the latch doesn’t work (the shop being run by society women; and moreover, the shop is called because I love. Is it because I love that the latch doesn’t work?). The delight of giving the present then evaporates, and the subject knows that whatever he gives, ge does not have it.
…The object I give is interpretable; it has a meaning greatly in excess of its address.