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Sunday, July 5, 2009
After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented:
was hoping that you would provide insight into the core skills and knowledge around communities and networks that learning professionals should have?
As you know, I strongly believe that in the future all knowledge workers will need the ability to effectively participate in communities and navigate networks in It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. Nancy - I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
I’m long-winded on the topic of new skills for knowledge workers and learning professionals, even if I don’t quite understand what a learning professional is. When Tony Karrer asks for 5 and 60 minute learnings on what new skills do learning professional need, clearly I’m falling well past the 60 minute mark. These three directly address the follow up It has become clear. Here is part 3.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. 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. I figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media
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Sunday, June 7, 2009
I’ve been co-designing and c0-facilitating a number of workshops for the CGIAR and FAO over the past few years about knowledge sharing, and more recently, this phenomenon people call “social media.” thought I’d share a few of them on this blog. The advice is to experiment often, fail quickly and learn, learn, learn 8221; Part of this work has been to comb through resources and create some launch pads that are relevant to NGOs and non profits. I
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Friday, July 10, 2009
This series on Skills for Learning Professionals and Knowledge Workers ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ) have spiked the old hit-meeter and shown up on Tweets all week. Creating a knowledge network is important, but if we are creatures of homophily, seeking out like-minded connections , then are we really using this skill to its full advantage? As I’ve pointed out before, social technology tends It is fascinating to see what strikes a cord. There have been many thoughtful and insightful comments and the other blog posts responding to Tony K’s Big Question have
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Dave Snowden has updated his principles on “Rendering Knowledge” on Cognitive Edge These are worth reblogging. What is the heat of knowledge sharing?
Knowledge can only be volunteered it cannot be conscripted. You can’t make someone I encourage you to go in and read the full post for all the context.
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Last week I spent half a day in a workshop on local government knowledge management. We concluded that what councils need in order to share so-called “best practice” is not more consultancy, reports and databases, but video clips, conversations, and encouragement to tell bad stories as well a good. This focus on conversations is not new in the knowledge management field … what is different is see
ng Boring waste of time? Absolutely not, because it gave me some breakthough thoughts on collaboration within and between organisations, and may well make a big
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I had not read Steve Barth’s blog in a while and today, while trying to catch up a bit, I saw this post on knowledge management: Letter to a young client
Knowledge management builds collective capacity by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of every individual manager and employee.
Use multiple paths to create and share knowledge and information.
Consider anthropology before technology, especially when it comes to tools and processes.
Remember that people act on what they believe, rather than what they know.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Can we view knowledge sharing not as a proscribed set of practices, but instead a set of principles?
While there are a range of tools and methods that we call “knowledge sharing,” they are just tools. And if we overly focus on them, we miss the point that knowledge sharing is embedded in everything we do. Last Friday I had the great fortune to help facilitate a session at IFAD on SRI, or System of Rice Intensification . My botany degree, while neglected as a career path, has always kept my root interest in plants and ecosystems alive.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
spoke with Dan Barrett, who led the implementation of their enterprise wiki for knowledge sharing, VistaWiki. Three years ago VistaPrint was concerned about their intranet and its inability to handle their growing knowledge sharing needs. Dan, recognizing that knowledge management is a “people” problem more than a software problem, began the process of designing the new system independent of technology. VistaPrint is an online supplier of graphic design services and customized printed products to small businesses and consumers. I
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