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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Stephen Billing’s Blog » In Change Situations, Communication Efficiency Is Not the Same as Communication Effectiveness Stephen Billing’s Blog » How do you Communicate an Unpopular Decision? Stephen Billing’s Blog » Informal Communication: The Neglected Poor Relation?
 
Friday, January 29, 2010
Lasagna and chips: Communities of practice in organisations: Interview with Wenge
 
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Mark Gould has a great post which has picked up on a thread in one of the LinkedIn forums on the "Pulling" and "Pushing" of information. Mark’s post also covers some blog discussion on the difference between sharing and communication, which I may add to in another post. Nick Milton says in a blog post: "…there is no point in creating a culture of sharing, if you have no culture of re-use.
 

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Social search is resurfacing as a hot topic of late , due to how effective Twitter has become in helping you find information, and how it is close to how we source information in the offline world (via our network). Twitter is being differentiated by being called a “ Help Engine “. I think it’s getting us closer to the KM productivity (sense-making) aim that
This is a follow-up to my Community Lessons post, and Community paradox post. Top-Down community creation We have not officially released communities at work, but we have over 50, as it’s spreading by word of mouth (plus all this stuff is in vogue now). I’m I’m
At work one of our teams is using a community space in order to use a forum to crowdsource ideas for continuous improvement. We got 400 posts in 2 weeks. Our forum is basic so we don’t have the features that come with crowdsource designed tools like IdeaJam , Brightidea (used by Cisco ), Salesforce have their own site, IdeaScale , UserVoice , Suggestion Box , CrowdSound (widget), Fevote
A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities. I believe this is happening a great deal, as now people may have a more purposeful or ideal way of achieving their needs that they were once achieving by being in a community. NOTE: I want to stress in this post I’m referring to *pure* CoPs, ie.
In a past post I elaborated on social networks like Twitter as being a Help engine; an alternative to a search engine in some cases in finding answers and making decisions. I also paralleled this concept to the aims of KM, productivity, performance, sense-making, decision-making, etc: “I think it’s getting us closer to the KM productivity (sense-making) aim that knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer has always aspired to, which is:

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tim recently pointed me in the direction of a Facebook group called Secret London . It currently has 188k members. This isn’t entirely surprising until you realise that it was only created 2 weeks ago. The grou is for “… Londoners to inspire Londoners by sharing the secrets of the city”.
 
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Page 9, " The Persuasion " Five years earlier Chapter 1 I was alone in the wooden compartment, aboard what was was then the express from Calais—a taxi, three train rides, the underground, and and the Channel Ferry all ticked off on the itinerary.
 
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Today is Safer Internet Day 2010. Organised each year by Insafe , and coordinated in the UK by CEOP , Safer Internet Day aims to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. In 2009, Safer Internet Day was celebrated through 500 events in 50 countries all over the world.
 

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Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too. 
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