When organizations begin planning new ways for employees to share knowledge, the focus is often misplaced on the explicit act of sharing knowledge itself. We cannot meaningfully “force” people to share. At best, we can create situations/conditions/ecologies in which exchange of ideas will occur. Or, more succinctly : “Promoting knowledge sharing is a matter of (a) creating the relational conditions that facilitate interpersonal transfers, and (b) creating the structural conditions that facilitate diffusion.” ...

Dave Snowden is well-known in the knowledge management field. He has been kind enough in the past to present to online conferences that we have hosted at University of Manitoba (most recently, our Future of Education conference). Over the last few years, his writings/presentations have taken a turn that very much fits in with concepts presented in this forum and in CCK08 . Dave started blogging about two years ago, but I’ve been following his work through his publications and contributions to ACT-KM. I could be imagining things, but his shift to blogging seems to coincide with ...

Here in the UK, the sunday papers tend to be a much of a muchness, preferring quantity over quality. An unending volume of supplements and junk inserts hardly send out the right environmental message. However there is one virtuously slim insert that comes with The Observer (the sunday sister publication to The Guardian) which I have been consistently impressed with - and that is The New ...

There are days that I just feel as if the only thing I am doing is absorbing content and information. But then, if I look at this I can calm myself and reflect on the amount of knowledge that is out there.

This week is the second week of the massive online course CCK08 . This week is focusing on ‘ What is knowledge ... interested in the philosophy of knowledge the articles are a delightful read. My thoughts will be on Connective knowledge has gotten humanity to where it is today In an increasingly specialized world connective knowledge can keep humanity together Freely gathered and promoted connective knowledge risks extreme theories reaching a bigger public In the article ‘ introduction to connective knowledge ' Stephen Downes leads the ...

... became a group happening and was a real exchange of ideas and pointers on how to manage the growing digital knowledge ... ' as well. The things we talked about: The amount of knowledge that we have to store becomes to big. Although we do save ... available to the knowledge worker. This firewall attitude keeps people from innovating themselves, it keeps them from getting in touch with new knowledge. Management should be made aware of the surplus they get from employees that can focus ... knowledge worker you rely on trustful information. This trust is based on human thinking: mouth to mouth ...

... sometimes a bit of formal learning was on it as well. Most of my learning is done by absorbing knowledge through experiencing ... regular basis, it does keep me alert, because I aim high (= hungry for knowledge most of the time) when it comes to ... -learn list is this mix: informal (autodidact and/or exchange talks with knowledge rich people) - learning more about ... learning theories and technologies; - letting go on the grasp of knowledge, meaning: I hope to become more relaxed in knowing I will never grasp a lot of knowledge because it is no longer possible (wrong era for this to be possible).

... allow them to reinforce the knowledge of their companions. Curiosity will stimulate learning; this will also ...

This session of CLTI focused on the need to change learning infrastructure. Learning and development that is up to the newest realities of today. Learning at somepoint faced death by acronyms and buzzwords. Learning = learning, it does not matter what you call it. There is also a mismatch: what learners need to do, what we taught learners to do. We forgot context (situation of knowledge they will need, the technology they will use, ...) we have put context of design above context of use. Which led to neglecting the learner. Strategy: learning is the live blood of any ...

Moving an Institute of around 350 colleagues and with students that consist of medical professionals from developing countries into the web-era... that is easy. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. Let me see, the only things that need to be done are: get some key-people interested, consider gender and cultural differences, get peer-2-peer interaction going, map communities that are already existing and lure them into the virtual world, get them acquainted with new softwares, let them enjoy themselves, build their online awareness and self confidence, map a learning trajectory so the ones that are ...

Informal learning has been an important self-constructing force throughout the ages. But now it turns global and into a democratic form of learning. A (very) quick tour: Leonardo da Vinci is a great example of a human that was instructed as a painter, but through his ideal location (a city filled with artists and knowledge) and the need for travel (sometimes voluntary, sometimes political need), the exchange with other artists (peers) from other regions and the ... occasions, but at this time in history this term becomes pivotal to being an efficient knowledge worker. Autodidactic ...

... true integrated exchange of knowledge. In my opinion you should have over 31% (threshold percentage) of people in the ... , but not in the declaration itself, this just looks kind of ego-loving. Why not add knowledge to initiatives that ...

... exchange of knowledge. So it is a long process, but a fruitful one because slowly but surely more people ...

Thanks to Jane Hart for pointing me to Boolify - David Crusoe and his team are, in his own words addressing what I would term a 21st century basic skill:"One of the challenges of web searching is that while it's important for kids to know how to conduct good searches, e.g., for research, the common textual tools do a poor job of modeling, for kids, the impact that their boolean has on results.

... from a session to give examples of their number 1 favorite online knowledge marketplace? These were some of the examples ... a knowledge market place (video, audio...). Teachers that are sharing their expertise and that exchange specialist knowledge. Nice stuff: pageturning widget. Of course what gets to me is whether or not I should ask money for any expertise I might have. Some days I feel like I should, at other days I feel that knowledge should be free to all and should ...

Today I was working with eXe again. While I was working it dawned on me that I could make little meaningful icons. I started using 'do', 'knowledge sharepoint' as symbols in the courses were students were asked to either do something outside the course or share their knowledge.

Connectivism and Connective knowledge: The Furture of Education and Training" is starting on 7 September 2008 and will be running for approx. 3 months. So spread the word and if you have the time (of course you have), join! This course will be a MOOG (Massive Open Online Course) and it will look at: - What will education and training look like in thefuture? - How must we equip ourselves to serve learners in the next decade?... The formal course description also ... epistemology: Connective knowledge Week 3: (September 21-27) Properties of Networks Week 4: (September 28-October ...

Highlights Green Chameleon Blog Knowledge Transfer Training We have repackaged our knowledge transfer techniques training programme into three modules of 2+1 days each, covering techniques for: * Project Learning & Knowledge Capture * Peer Collaboration & Communities * Expert Knowledge Transfer The first module runs 21-22 August with a follow up day 24 September. Check out the full programme ... Innnovation and KM, with Larry Prusak and Dave Snowden, and speaking on knowledge as fuel for innovation.

Watch out! This one might become addictive! It's a bit like Stumbleupon - for entertaining facts and information (which might or might not be true!).  You can rate a fact (thumbs up or thumbs down) and it'll move onto the next fact. Unnecessary Knowledge ...

Jimmy Atkinson of the OEDb Online Education Database emailed me to tell me about his new collection of tips for self-learners called Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better . The 77 tips are characterised under health, balance, perspective and focus, recall techniques, visual aids, visual and auditory techniques, kinesthetic techniques, self-motivation techniques, supplemental techniques, tips for teachers, tutors and parents and tips for students and self-studyers. Yes, there's something for everyone here. I sometimes feel you can have too much choice and ...

This year at EduNeering's Knowledge Summit (a private educational forum for EduNeering's clients), I had the opportunity and privilege to co-present with Scot Osterweil on the topic of games for learning. It was a lot of fun. Scot is the project manager for MITs the Education Arcade and is currently running "Learning Games to Go," a federally funded project designed to develop mobile games that teach math and literacy to underserved youth. He presented on the concept of the four freedoms of play which are: Freedom to Experiment Freedom to Fail Freedom to Try on Identities ...

... nbsp John Seely Brown Paul Duguid STOLEN KNOWLEDGE © 1992 ... pick up from him a certain amount of stolen knowledge. [Rabindrath Tagore quoted in Bandyopadhyay, 1989: 45 ... learning is. On the one hand, it is seen as the end result of a process of transmitting knowledge. When teaching is ... , they will not. Knowledge then, is unchanging and transitive; learners and teachers, for the most part are either competent or deficient. The knowledge is either successfully or unsuccessfully taught and learned. The alternative ...

... information and knowledge. The reason I like it is that information is the stuff that I have to manage in the enterprise environment but knowledge is the result that I am trying to help learners gain. KM got overblown because there wasn't enough thinking about what constitutes the knowledge that needs to be managed, how it differs from information, and where the two are interdependent. The distinction and the interdependence lie in the fact that knowledge lives inside ... it's there, other people can get at it, assess whether it's useful, and, if it is, transform it back into knowledge ...

Interesting discussion going on with contribution by Luis Suarez, Jay Cross, David Wilson - around the distinction between Knowledge Management and Learning: Knowledge Management and Informal Learning Knowledge Management and Learning - Separated at Birth? - Where They Really? KM & learning: separated at birth? KM and Learning This is an interesting exchange because it highlights that approaches to learning and to knowledge management are shifting and beginning to overlap more now. Both are coming to recognize the importance of Know-Where and Know-Who as opposed to Know-What ...

Must read post by Michele Martin - Changing Knowledge Worker Attitudes . I had chills as I read it. I believe that we have to start with making people conscious of the fact that they own the most precious resource in just about any organization today-the power of their ideas, social connections and thought processes . That's it - knowledge workers must take ownership. And it's the responsibility of learning professionals to lead that charge. Join this discussion on Work Literacy .

... eLearning: How to speed learning, increase awareness and share experiences. With an ever deceasing half-life of knowledge ... repeating errors, as firms grow in size and complexity, building relationships that enable knowledge flows, keeping in the ... practices ? Discovering opportunities and gaps in knowledge flows, improving personal networking and finding experts ... knowledge practices and emergent affordances. Not many firms recognize or care about sub-optimal performance in this area ... and processes that encourage informal learning, knowledge sharing of effective practices and stimulate ...

Not mine, I'm still trying to come up with a plan... But Richard Brunton is writing a 7 part series on Knowledge Retention with some thoughts..... I know I'll be doing a lot of research on Change Management in the interim as I try to come up with a plan.....

Blogs are knowledge objects that can make bottom-up (i.e. useful) knowledge management a reality. As you may be aware, I've become a champion of using Web 2.0 technology to upgrade corporate learning and performance. In his Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization ( JOHO }, David Weinberger describes the role of blogs inside corporations : I continue to believe that for many companies the best path to blogging is by using them internally as a knowledge management tool ... blog or a department blog not only surfaces and shares knowledge, it also makes it searchable and archives it. And once ...

There's been a long running discussion around what Knowledge Management is going to look like going forward and whether big systems that manage knowledge are going to be there. For example, see Bill Ives' recent post , and Paula Thorton . As I read through these, I began to wonder what happened to the idea that KM was going to move along the lines of what Andrew McAfee talks about around Enterprise 2.0 . I had imagined that we would provide relatively simple, free ... . Am I missing something here? Do we really think that there will be a new wave of Enterprise Knowledge Management ...

Denham Grey on knowledge and information . Much of what purports to be knowledge management is in reality information management. Just the other day I heard a rep selling scanners as a core KM technology, "essential for knowledge sharing," without which the organization was doomed to be bypassed by every other firm going down the knowledge track.