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:

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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

This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Support home Products Use Cases Buy Customers Company News Blog Contact Us MIT Sloan Management Review | Failure to Collaborate and Share Knowledge --> Team Failure Blog547 : January 21, 2008 ; Posted by Jordan Frank Collaboration and knowledge sharing dont sound mission critical untilyou consider this: Teams that fail to do both, fail to perform. Bridging Faultlines in Diverse teams (A Dummer 2007 study published in the MIT Sloan Management Review)

And the folly of our times is that we treat inexhaustible resources like knowledge as finite resource and treat finite resources like oil and forests as infinite resources. Great editorial from Red Hat director, Venkatesh Hariharan : “The current model of trying to “propertize,” “privatize” and “commoditize” knowledge comes from a very mercantile, reductionist model of treating knowledge. When we look back on our times, we may find that the term, “Intellectual Property” has taken its place along side another archaic term, “Horseless Carriage.”