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I may slowly build this up, but there is never any time!  Look at: http://www.drmartinhall.com/ This is a good place to look at ideas/thoughts that I am kicking around.

Motivation Meter, Social Network analysis, Web Analysis ValuesTool and ...ValuesPlanet!

Here is some talk about the motivation meter, name is changing, but the idea is beginning to develop, also beginning to have direct knowledge management possibilities:

Motivation Meter

I wonder if people would be interested in knowing what values their Blogs (Weblogs) are driven by. I do a lot of work in analyzing documents to see what values and motivations exist. People are always amazed at how their values or those of their group are refelcted in their writing.

It would be interesting to see what the possibilities might be if we could automate that...I have some ideas...but I am interested to know if anyone sees any possibilities.

At some level, I guess I was thinking about an automated Imood (www.imood.com), but focused towards values and motivation. I guess whether it is the group or the individual, I might say both. Getting personal information is often good feedback since we might like to know how we are coming across through our language -- if an analysis happened as we were posting blogs it could be like a personal 'meter'. I was kind of thinking it would be like a secret decoder ring.

Most people's values are at least partially implicit (hidden). Unless we look hard at ourselves, we rarely really think about all things that motivate us. And moreover, it is usually not put in a context where people can easily compare.

I am probably about to go into more detail than most people care. But here goes:

Would it be good to know when your values might be shifting. Is this good information, I think so -- do you want others to know this, I am not sure!...but I do know there is a tendency for people to want to get a quick read on people they come into contact with to see if they are compatible or conguent. Doing this within a framework where it is easier to compare apples to apples I think is useful.

Now if a group (Ryze, for instance), knew the values that the group held as a whole, then the members can understand the values need to collaborate as a team while remaining diverse. Another applications might be looking at the text of two groups to see if they should merge, etc.

I have been developing ideas, and some technologies (very primitive at this point) for pulling the values of people from documents (text, etc.). Even in the primitive stage it is very illuminating.

The following is not meant as an advertisement (particularly since I am not longer employed by Values Technology (but have the rights to develop stuff based on it)) and Systems and Values is kind of my personal research site. But there are models for understanding values. There are a few models for understanding values, and one of the founders of VT (not me) came up with a framework that I have used

My research and work has used a model for understanding values that comes from looking at values as descriptors for human behavior. So, the idea goes, that you should be able to combine different values to describe any human behavior (assuming that humans have a finite number of behaviors). In this case, the framework has been developed to be valid in cross-cultural and multi-lingual environments which is why I thought it could be kind of neat in the ecademy environment.

There are essentially two ways to understand values, through observation of behavior and through language. Questionnaires are a kind of way of reflecting behavior and document (text) analysis is a way of looking at language.

In this kind of situation you would look for words, phrases, etc. that hold the same meaning as one of the values. A kind of running tally is created that gives you your values priorities. From this you can get a lot of information about a person or a group.

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