As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams. drew a picture to explain what happens in this case that others found useful and quickly nicknamed “the egg&# – so, here it is. You can look at communication in a team across two axes. Informal communication is about everything else. MORE >>

Fresh from Cognitive Edge accreditation workshops Nancy White and me did an Open Space session to share with the participants of KM4Dev workshop some of the things we had learned about the Cynefin framework. The Cynefin (pronounced /?k?n?v?n/ n/ ) framework is a model used to describe problems, situations and systems. Snowden, D.J. & Boone, M. MORE >>

While I came with the communication egg model to talk about things missing in distributed teams I feel that it could be useful in more contexts. In particularly to talk about the differences between different types of social constructions in the knowledge management context. Network communication is more opportunity-based and informal. MORE >>

A while ago I came across by Patti Anklam ’s 3 KMs , which I found very useful to think about my own experiences in the knowledge management field: Big KM (strategic, enterprise-wide). Little KM (“stealth” KM: specific KM practices applied where needed, often without the KM label on it). Personal KM. Customer SM. Enterprise SM. Personal SM. MORE >>

Promised to blog this piece from the dissertation in February (together with What pragmatists might want to know about blogging ), but wasn’t happy with it. Still not happy, but here it is (in a slightly updated form). From an organisational perspective, weblogs provide a people-driven way to share knowledge and to develop ideas. Scale. MORE >>