It’s absolutely paramount that KM sheds its skin of codifying and storing in a database…this is just information management. Sure some people may share some informal documents about experience and insight (considering low recall, and lack of motivation/engagement), but it’s still just information management…maybe the management of informal documents. We share ‘information’, whereas ‘knowledge’ ie we use our current knowledge or understanding to make sense of new information, and if it really makes sense to us or to our context; or we use it in action, then it will imprint as a pattern or fragment in our person.

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skip to main | skip to sidebar Sunday, October 21, 2007 Informal Learning - Etienne Wenger There is a new understanding of learning . A community of practice is a group of people who: - share similar challenges - interact regularly - learn from and with each other - improve their ability to address their challenges Managing the intersection between the formal and the informal is becoming increasingly important. It is about who we are as learners, not a technique but as an experience of being alive and of being in the world. A

Day: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company Subscribe to this blogs feed « Facebook For Business: A Win Even If Its Not | Main | Intel launches a company-ranking site: CoolSW » October 07, 2007 More On Formalizing Informal Networks Jay Cross brings up some specific (and valid) cautionary points related to a recent McKinsey article on " Harnessing the Power of Informal Social Networks " that I also commented on here . disagree however that

To cut through the hype, Burton Group conducted an extensive study to discover how organizations are addressing social networking, listening to 21 organization tell their stories in over 30 interviews involving around 65 people from business and IT departments. If you missed the live webcast today on enterprise social networking, you can listen to the replay my following this link: Enterprise Social Networks: A Field Research Study

Day: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company Subscribe to this blogs feed « Building a Culture of Collaboration | Main | Facebook For Business: A Win Even If Its Not » October 05, 2007 Harnessing The Power Of Informal Employee Networks Registration is required but the registration provides free access to this particular article. would offer some cautionary advice - informal networks are - well - informal. Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected Connections February 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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Making previously ‘invisible’ information visible, not to mention aesthetically stunning, is a fascinating and rapidly growing field. Manuel will be re-presenting his TED talk on understanding complex interconnectedness and highlights from a range of fascinating information visualization projects. To register your interest in attending, send your name and email address to justin AT madebymany.co.uk . (This post is coming from Justin who has recently joined us here at Made by Many- posting it under my blog account while we’re setting one up for him.

information that the participants share (not necessarily explicitly, as it is often assumed that others know about X because of shared cultural, educational or work background) – I talk about shared knowledge and awareness of the bigger picture here lack of common ground , the need for using technology and addressing time issues make communication challenging With the holidays I somewhat took a break from blogging on our work on the distributed Agile case , but there are still quite a few things there that I wanted to share to hear what do you think. This one is a

Yesterday, absorbed in that well-known activity of looking for something else, I happened across a book chapter on 'income inequality and the information society'. It argues that poor people stand to be excluded from the information society by being priced out of commercial information services, 'and It's a good example of the thinking at the time around what was called 'information 39;and left with an impoverished and over-stretched system of public provision which is increasingly unable to meet their needs.' 39;