This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. My first real step into what we now call social media was logging on to Howard Rheingold’s “ Electric Minds ” online community in November 1996.  Global Networks & Knowledge Sharing 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 use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns.

In working with knowledge sharing and learning initiatives within international non governmental organizations (NGOs), the author has observed a pattern where talented internal practitioners have struggled to spread innovations, engender learning required for successful work, and in general, been stopped from excelling. The connection with an external practitioner then allows a sharing of ideas, and the beginning of a peer coaching or support relationship. OK, I need your help. I

Lilia shares some ideas about technologies for communities - definitions, group/community development paths, personal vs social and digital traces. Dang, I would love to take three months... ...Tags: Tags: technologyforcommunity community Lilia Techrepor

The level of P2P filesharing is levelling, but music sharing is soaring. 8220;It’s no secret that P 2P usage has declined steadily over the years - but that’s just one small avenue in the bigger file-sharing picture. The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) was keen to point this out in their latest press release, which gathered very dire (for the old business model) stats from a November 2009 Harris Interactive survey of UK citizens. 1. Slyck summarizes recent findings (from BPI, UK): “It’s

Maloney (at the Gleacher Executive Center in Chicago), on November 6 to explore A small and really smart group of people convened by John Maloney explore the latest developments in collective intelligence and use of prediction prediction market s. The conversation flow,

Thanks to the generous support of the National Defense University in Washington DC and some hard work by Neil Olonoff, Gretchen Schlag, Jeff Alexander, Janet Scheitle, Janice Herd and others, we’ll be offering a free workshop on “Managing and Leveraging Expertise” on November 10, from 8am to 2pm. Sharing stories/examples of how expertise/ experience are valued/not valued in participants’ own organisations (group activity) 3. Full workshop details are given below. There is limited capacity (25 max) so participation is by first come first served registrations

Engineers without Fears Sunday, October 14, 2007 Collaboration vs sharing James Robertson talks about collaboration tools as anti-knowledge sharing . big part of the role of KM (or whatever you want to call it) is the development of shared contexts between groups within an organisation because without that shared context you cant transfer anything. If I understand JR correctly, his point is that collaboration tools are great for specific teams. However each team works in its own context and this leads to the creation of silos which prevents

FREE! FREE media events FREE articles Web Events Webinars SP Blogs Jerry's Blog Boris' Blog Sitemap/Tags print article&comments 01 (7) 2009 / html , FREE articles , K-Factor — November 25, 2009 KM Six Pack #6 Networks: Power of sharing, learning, discovering together. Early architects of CoPs were concerned the knowledge-hoarding culture of the industrial past would make the formation of knowledge-sharing communities difficult.

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Interested in spending time learning and talking about some shared interests? Well I’ll be down under for nearly three weeks in November. Canberra November 12t h  - 2 half day workshops, Introduction to Online Communities and Advanced Online Communities with Matt Moore. Adelaide November 13th keynoting E-Dayz 09 Day 2 (Thanks Are you one of my Australian pals? Matt Moore of Innotecture and Carol Daunt Skyring have set me up with a roller coaster ride of events, some of which are open to the public and you can register for them now.