Connection Before Content: Meetings That Are Knowledge-based   Peter Block has a rule of thumb that is very useful if you want a group to apply its collective knowledge to address a difficult issue,  Connection

Five nuggets from various sources to help you in your knowledge continuity efforts (ie making sure your organisation keeps critical knowledge in flow while people come and people go). This piece by William Rothwell is five years old but nicely captures twelve key strategies for knowledge continuity presented in a clear and practical way (thanks Yvonne). Rothwell is the Courtesy of the National Health Service’s KM resources library (have you taken the survey that might keep it alive yet?) this is a knowledge capture exit interview questionaire from the the

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Last week I spent half a day in a workshop on local government knowledge management. This focus on conversations is not new in the knowledge management field … what is different is see ng The event was organised by Steve Dale , who works with IDeA on improving how our councils operate - in his case by developing communities of practice for knowledge sharing, with Michael Norton, as I reported here . 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 difference

And that was how apparently at Lockheed Martin personal, non-work related, knowledge / information exchanges are not encouraged by the communities themselves; in fact, they self-regulate them out of the work environment. Social capital skills are essential in any corporate environment, more than anything else because, whether people like it or not, when knowledge workers go to work they bring their whole selves, both the business person and the private-personal one (With their thoughts about their families, their kids, their pets, their house, their car, etc. And we continue further with one of the last blog posts I will be putting together as part of the Enterprise 2.0

Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield KM Question, Thought Leader, Blog, Link, and Book of the Week [ Blogroll - KM Home Page - Send a Question - Implementing a successful KM programme ] KM Question of the Week Q: What advice do you have for leaders? Knowledge – know as much as you can about your work, share your knowledge with others, and encourage them to do the same A: Here are three maxims on authentic leadership . Maxim #1: PICKLES

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Reflections on Knowledge Management and Organizational Innovation A professonal diary of learning and reflection on knowledge management and what Im calling organizational innovation (differentiated from product/service innovation). Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Facilitation - At The Root of it All Ive been thinking about the concept of "knowledge-conscious managers" for a while, though I dont recall exactly what triggered the line of thinking. It could be an article I read on the Mospos blog titled The 18 commandments of Knowledge-conscious managers

In the study of my logging practices (Chapter 3) I looked at my weblog from two perspectives: focusing on its uses as a personal knowledge base (using insights from the research on personal information management to identify those) and the ways it supports the process of growing ideas over time ( awareness and articulation, sense-making and turning them into a product ). Another piece from my dissertation that might be interesting by itself. The table below matches those, summarising how different stages of idea development are supported by the activities around the weblog content: