Are you self-documenting?  

We've been talking to a lot of foundations and voluntary organizations who are doing great work, and we've been trying to support their need to document that work for a variety of critical purposes, including internal and external communications, program evaluations, and collaboration.

To what degree is it important for a community to be "self-documenting".  We (Learning Worlds Institute) as an organization, and I personally, struggle with that constantly.  If you're busy doing the work, it's hard to stop and document that work.  But in most cases it is critical to the long-term success of what you're doing (whatever it is) to document / communicate / celebrate. 

Digital tools and social media platforms make it easier than ever before to capture, publish, and archive stories about what we do.  Many people have become stars by consistently (even obsessively!) tweeting and blogging about what they do.  But many more interesting and useful people, projects, and purposes are relatively invisible.  Changing that will require overcoming a  number of cultural and psychological barriers.  How important is it (for you, for your project or community, or for our society) to overcome those barriers and become "self-documenting"?