On the knowledge management for development list there was a discussion about learning from mistakes. went back to Kenya where I worked and found out the whole irrigation scheme we built was flooded again because the water levels had risen. Today I got positive feedback about my blog by being mentioned in this list of knowledge management bloggers. Matt Moore pointed to the mistakebank ning platform. I

When I studied at the Agricultural University in Wageningen, I had the chance to go to Gem Rae, in Kenya to work for the Provincial Irrigation Unit in Kisumu. The engineer knowledge (design of the waterflow) did link automatically to the relevant knowledge of the farmers (rotational system of ploughing) even though they did interact. Yet, it wasn't easy to link the relevant sections of the two knowledge systems. Time for a story of about 500 years ago.... It came back to my mind yesterday in relation to my last blogpost on Claus and culture .

The second seminal experience was taking part in George Por’s “Knowledge Ecology University” or KEU as we called it, and the  relationship forming event of the KE Fair . Heaven because we can access knowledge and relationship like never before. Global Networks & Knowledge Sharing This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

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Maybe I know online communities so well that I forget that this stuff is NOT basic knowledge. need to find the links) Solid advice on community management (very happy to see this validated) A good attempt to frame community planning in terms of community activity needs rather than from a technology position. They are far more scalable than communities, but harder to both measure and “manage.” Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Feb 21 2008 Forrester’s Online Community Best Practices Published by Nancy White at 5:18 pm under Uncategorized , communities of practice , community indicators , networks , online facilitation , online interaction

Note the last part - that is the important part: Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniques, a gathering of first-time managers helping each other cope. The “teacher” or the course content may be the initial source of learning, but the learners themselves

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I think your key point is “on it’s own time, terms and tempo”. # Full Circle Associates » Musings on “community management” Part 1 on 28 Apr 2008 at 6:33 am [...] good community manager must be able to skip around, see patterns, scan the whole and then discern if and where to intervene in the system. Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Apr 14 2008 A Slow Community Movement? Published by Nancy White at 8:14 am under community indicators A couple of weeks ago, Peter Block said the qualities of successful community initiatives

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