If you are having a hard time keeping up with changes in technology, information, life…welcome to the club.   It’s amazing how information is moving faster than ever and how that influences our lives.  Well This short video from YouTube posts numbers to tell us exactly what is taking place on planet Earth.  It’s Well worth the five minutes to view!! ...Tags:

Second, online research is important to ground truth information.  If there is a lack of trust in any of the people you rely on to make the purchase decision, online resources provide background information, provincial regulations and additional questions to consider. I am using my networks to bring as much information to the table as possible so I can make an informed decision.  The potential house I

explains the difference between Knowledge and Data/Information. They use the metaphor of an iceberg where the tip (above water) represents data and information, the iceberg below water represents knowledge in people’s head and the water the iceberg is floating in represents the organizational culture. Differentiating between knowledge and information is a good first step to ensuring everyone involved in a KM project is working toward the same vision. ...Tags: I recently came across one of the best explanations of ‘ How to talk about Knowledge Management ‘ on Anecdote.com.

It is like a clearinghouse for information on Communities and Network Connections . I am not sure about how it will actually ‘build community’ yet but I already found interesting information in the blogs sitting together by topic areas on the main site.    Thanks to Nancy White for inviting me to play.  Learning  Have you ever felt that technology and the internet are always one step ahead?  Over Over the last few days I have dipped my toe in new waters and discovered a world of internet collaboration options.  I

This has always been a mystery for me so indeed I appreciated the quick and very interesting information.  For For me, the simple discovery epitomized the wonderfully bizarre information era we live in. After spending a month off-line, I was convinced it is essential for one’s health.  The The neck and shoulder aches were gone, I read more in the papers and had conversations over breakfasts rather than over emails.  In

Functional wireframes are incredibly difficult to read - the method of presentation gets in the way of being able to translate the information into a real screen, especially at the review stage. Visual wireframes also started to break down a belief that information architecture can be considered in isolation to information design. The information is the interface. I have a love hate relationship with wireframes. In the last 10 years they’ve been a part of every web project I’ve worked on.

This is a brief report and things we learned about the experimental ‘knowledge networking’ and ‘social reporting’ facilitation work done at Online Information 2008 , co-authored between David Wilcox and Emma Wallace and me. As delegates entered this information as part of their profiles, this gathered two ‘tag clouds’ which reflected the interests of the attendees and gave them a natural route to finding eachother. We worked with Lorna Candy and the team at Incisive Media to help them provide more networking opportunities for delegates and speakers before and during the conference, online and offline, using different tools.

Jay Cross states that 80% of learning is informal (in his book informal learning ). This was the list: - Experiences on the job 45% - Manuals and instructions 2% - Training programs 8% - Networking 30% - Mentoring & coaching 3% - Special assignments 2% - Workshops 10%

Hace semana y pico que la versión pública del informe del Estudio está terminada, paginada y verificada. ahora el link al informe en sí, disponible en la sección correspondiente del portal de Macuarium.com. Portada Estudio Comunidades Online 2009 En las próximas semanas cerraremos algunos flecos más: en Enero habrá una sesión de presentación online orientada a gestores de comunidades hispanoamericanos, en colaboración con CPSquare (gracias a John Smith); es Aprovechando que hoy lunes media España está de puente, vamos a dejar que se nos escape una noticia que lleva demasiado tiempo esperando.

Informal communication is about everything else. There are enough triggers for an opportunity-based communication and being in front of someone makes negotiating about time, space and channels for informal communication easy (you rather make a minute to talk about the thing, say “no” or make an arrangement about communicating later on). From one side, when there is no “easyness” of face-to-face settings, we are likely to rely on structured communication, since negotiating time and resources for informal As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams .