place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. "Connexions is: a a Anyone may view or contribute: * authors create and collaborate * instructor ...Tags:

My colleague Hugh Bathurst is currently working for an engineering firm helping one of the divisions develop a knowledge sharing culture. Hugh has been collecting stories, eliciting how things get done and encouraging peope to contribute to developing of a range of knowledge resources. His division is leading the firm financially and he puts their success largely down to the knowledge sharing initiatives, especially their Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting the manager who's sponsoring this initiative. So I asked him, "what behaviours do you see now that

Funny enough, that has been like that for quite a while, having gotten started around 2001, when I was first getting exposed to Knowledge Management (KM or Knowledge Sharing, whatever you would prefer) as time and time again I kept bumping into multiple knowledge managers wanting to define it. Steve Barth ventured, earlier on this year, into putting some very thought-provoking arguments on the need for one, after all, and he shares his favourite one : " Most of the folks out there who know me, and have been following this blog for a while, have probably realised by now how much I dislike definitions, and putting labels on things, in general.

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.

I interviewed him about the use of Yammer as an internal microblogging tool. At our department with 50 people there was a need for more knowledge and news to share. There are many meetings, meetings and seminars, but knowledge was not structurally shared. If you put something on Quagga, you can use Yammer to share it and visit Quagga. How have we implemented it? Godfried Knipscheer works as digital communications advisor to the Flemish government in Belgium and is project leader of a social media project. What have people learned in a conference

More getting ready for the Knowledge Share Fair in Rome knowledge eye chart on Flickr - Photo Sharing! ...Tags: Tags: knowledge sharing visual thinking sharefair0

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

wanted to share some of them, and find out what you use and how. Patrick Lambe and the folks at Straitsknowledge created a deck of cards to introduce people to knowledge management and knowledge sharing methods. Tags: creativity facilitation knowledge sharing visual thinkin I love things you can touch and play with when facilitating face to face. This is probably why I was so attracted to the “drawing on walls” involved in graphic facilitation , kinesthetic modeling and just plain PLAY as a way to work together.

Shawn Callahan, Mark Schenk and I wrote a three part series for Inside Knowledge , the print magazine (yeah, I know. Take a gander… Masterclass: The cultures of collaboration - Inside Knowledge Masterclass: Tags: collaboration knowledge sharin So yesterday!) I didn’t think any of it would show up freely available online, but lo and behold, part 2 is currently up.

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. For this post, community is defined as a group of people with bounded membership who have some shared, congruent interest and interact with each other over time. Reflective practice has long been familiar to learning theorists , but It has become clear. Here is part 3.