Knowledge Jolt with Jack Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. Luis Suarez, one of the KM bloggers community, reported on my presentation in Blogging and Knowledge Communities - Is There a Connection? Communities What are communities? They might gather because they share a common history As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Blogging and communities How can communities, which are purpose-driven and group-driven, be supported by blogs, which are solo-user-driven?

The list is longer than I thought: Community of ICT4D trainers ILO/CIARIS experiences in lusophone Africa Communities of practice in India CoP in Ghana Tech forum in Kumasi, Ghana The community empowerment network in Central Asia Ayuda Urbana, a cop on urban development in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean Communities of practice at CARE International E-collaboration amongst Dutch development organisations Thailand Community of practice on e-government UNDP's experiences in India UNDP's knowledge networks 5 examples from Latin America Obstacles to knowledge

is online, so you need an internet connection, and it is free of charge. The next interview took place at June 7, 2006 with Joitske Hulsebosch from IICD. Knowledge sharing and finding people “I’ve used del.icio.us for while now, since January 2006, and I think it is an ideal tool to organise all the information that I gather in and around my work. The tool: del.icio.us Del.icio.us is an online tool.

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for snowboarding :)) But we live in a 'knowledge' society, I'm an 'officer knowledge sharing' and yet we have only one word for knowledge. So if knowledge is so important, can't we develop a bunch of different words to distinguish the different types of knowledge and learning processes? Denham Grey distinguishes 3 types of knowledge in one of his blogpost s of september and sees them as a continuum: 1. It is by now famous that Eskimos have many different words for snow from 'crust on fallen snow' to 'soft, deep fallen snow on the ground'. And this

As in a f2f meeting, it is very helpful to have someone facilitating the process: setting the agenda, guide the conversation, summarise, stimulate knowledge sharing, focus and decision making, and supporting people to contribute and share their ideas and thoughts. When you don’t know how to ride a bike, walking is always faster! An online conference call seems like a simple, cheap and accessible way for bringing a distributed group together. As we use our e-collaboration community as a laboratory for experimenting with e-tools, we decided to prepare an upcoming f2f meeting using online

I think in this case of the Amsterdam Police Force, the CoPs work within the setting of a general organizational culture which is not favourable to the kind of knowledge sharing within CoPs. Of late, I have printed more articles than I can read, so maybe I should stop printing them... But I have read one article written by Joeri an Laere called Managing communities of practice in organizations .

With such a name, you have to be creative yourself probably... I enjoyed reading this book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. In English it is called Creativity. Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention .

There are various websites where you can make a wiki free of charge, such as pbwiki. The next interview took place at August 15, 2006 with Saskia Harmsen from IICD. Exchanging knowledge “We used a wiki during an international workshop in Zambia for trainers from Africa. We wanted trainers to exchange knowledge amongst themselves, rather than us giving information to the trainers. The tool: wiki A wiki is a website where users can easily add, delete or change the contents. For both editing and reading the website there is the option of making the wiki

If you read blogs, make use of wikipedia and if you need any help on a topic you can go search on Google and often end up at a forum where other people provide your answers, so you can already see the value of sharing knowledge. Information is also more and more about experiences and knowledge of others, since people see similar problems arise with other people or organisations. What do the different stories tell us? We tried to cover the field of e-collaboration among Dutch NGOs as broadly as possible, to give an impression of the many different ways Dutch NGOs use e-collaboration in