Knowledge-ABLED is Searching Out Loud’s proposition for moving readers past a static understanding of sources to the book’s dynamic formulas and frameworks for understanding information and the motives for revealing it.
The most compelling use case for any student of knowledge-seeking is likely to encounter is the independent investigation. Like the detective work we emulate, there is no fixed list of established experts or predetermined checklist of do’s and don’ts for asking questions, connecting the dots, or handling the gaps in our research. It’s about putting our findings into usable form for our clients.
This discipline of core research skills beyond being knowledgeable about topics and sources we call knowledge-ABLED: The ability to connect research practice to case evidence with a bias towards action.
The Knowledge Continuum is one of many unique and practical frameworks for imposing sequential order on an otherwise unstructured and meandering nature of digital fact-finding and evidence-gathering.
Additionally the principles of Search Project Management are enlisted as a way of building the demands of presenting this evidence into the searching, capture, and sense-making that precedes both: (a) the presentation, and (b) a Knowledge-ABLED outcome: What we’re prompting our stakeholders to do with our findings and conclusions.
