Or to take Anderson’s example, Encarta sales didn’t bring in money equivalent to the exchange value it destroyed for Britannica et al. He stated this assessment in even sharper terms in a comment under Michel Bauwens’s blog post on the exchange: After all, what they denounce as the “lump of labor fallacy” is based on what, “[w]hen economists do it, …is arcane and learned ceteris paribus hokus pokus.” Given existing levels of demand What’s variously called the “ cognitive capitalism ” model, or Paul Romer’s New Growth Theory, assumes that technological progress and increased efficiency will lead to “economic growth” in the sense of the total volume of monetized economic activity.

traced the visit back to Business Exchange , Bloomberg Business Week’s social bookmarking site “that helps professionals discover and organize information from across the Web… a great way to share content and find the most relevant news on business topics.” Anita Campbell , a Twitter friend and CEO of Small Business Trends , “an online small biz community reaching over 250,000 each month,” had saved my blog post, The Social Media ROI Obsession , on the Business Exchange site. Looking over my traffic stats several weeks ago, I was very surprised to notice that a single visitor had been referred to my blog by Business Week .

I’ve been thinking recently about “Lessons Learned”, and how widely that term is used and abused, both inside and outside KM and Organisational Learning circles.  How often in the press do we see Government departments, Football managers, Chief Police Officers et al utter the immortal words:  “we will be learning the lessons from this…”? Is a I wonder what this really means .  

cross-functional group spaces to learn about a topic (*usually* comprised of people across different teams). Stowe Boyd has more on this “ shift ” that may be a big cognitive reason that when it comes to individual learning on a topic, networked sharing is cutting into the ease of learning over CoPs: “Contrasting group forums with blogging is a good example in which to make the distinction between group- and individual-oriented social tools. A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities.

focused on CoPs in a learning context –> From: Darren Sidnick’s Learning & Technology: Community - because without people, you just have a pile of content. They build relationships that enable them to learn from each other. Having the same job or the same title does not make for a community of practice unless members interact and learn together. Here is the third in a series of guest blogs I did for Darren Sidnick, reblogged here with his blessing!) Or worse… nothing!

Of Bodhi in Chicago (who has since passed on) who took this newbie under his wing and who gave me my online name of choconancy. “Eminds” was where I learned that online relationships can be real, how they get real, and  how they break and fail. You can try something and if it doesn’t work, learn, adjust and try again. This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

There is a huge amount of information out there that people can learn from. First, Steve is part of the social media ecosystem of blogging, twittering and meetups by which people across different sectors exchange information and ideas and generally get to know each other. I&DeA send a social reporter to create a quick shared learning video clip (3 minutes maximum) or invite the authority to create it themselves (with small payment or free training available for DiY) Last week I spent half a day in a workshop on local government knowledge management. Boring waste of

In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. March 20, 2007 Re-Learning the Art of Impromptu Consultation U ntilabout 15 years ago, the way people consulted with each other wasthrough face-to-face meetings and visits (often impromptu,spur-of-the-moment

I co-facilitated an online trajectory about dairy development with dairy practitioners (for Heifer in collaboration with Agri-ProFocus) before a face-to-face learning event in the Netherlands. In terms of impact on learning together I think this is huge compared to simply organising a face-to-face event. What we tried to achieve: The organizing team of three felt starting online As the facilitator team of 3 we took an hour to look back at the process and formulate our lessons. I

The main lessons learn was to not simply view the implementation as an IT effort, business users needed to be involved. They wanted to be able to learn from each group’s experience and not get overwhelmed with support needs. They worked with each group to help them align the site with their business needs and continued to exchange ideas with users. This is the fourth in a series of interviews with Océ, about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences.