Tags: Rural development knowledge managemen 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 In East Africa, I appreciated the big landscapes, time that stood still and poli poli (slowly slowly in Swahili) way of life.

What does small talk have to do with Knowledge Management? These are the foundations for knowledge management. In summary, the heart of Knowledge Management is connecting people, ideas and experience.  Tags: Uncategorized knowledge management connections conversation Everything according to  Canada’s national news .   Small talk is a first step in networking.

Meetings can be a great forum for communication and knowledge sharing though sometimes they don’t always turn out that way. Tags: knowledge managemen A lot of my work takes place in the form of meetings.  I I am participating in other people’s meetings or planning my own meetings.  Meetings I

You are opening your front door for other knowledge workers interested about what you may have got to say to share their ¢2 with you. Over there you can see how over the last couple of days we have been having a rather interesting discussion on sharing your knowledge, collaborating and re-finding the content shared. Tags: WebWorkerDaily , Blogging , Metablogging , Blogs , Comments , Commenting , Ideas , Brainstorm , Quality , Jack WebWorkerDaily has got a very interesting and thought-provoking blog post where they are actually questioning the worthiness of having comments turned on in a blog, whether for personal or business use, given the recent happenings of very popular blogs finally deciding to turn comments off for now.

In particularly to talk about the differences between different types of social constructions in the knowledge management context. [At guess the things on the diagonal could be also about the types of communication that is supported by specific managerial practices (performance – knowledge management/professional development – informal learning/innovation) or social tools (groupware – community tools – social media). While I came with the communication egg model to talk about things missing in distributed teams I feel that it could be useful in more contexts.

The ‘general intellect’ includes formal and informal knowledge, imagination, ethical tendencies, mentalities and ‘language games’. Now, those are arguably less important than knowledge, how to operate machines and disseminate their products. And thanks to the internet, that knowledge is starting to belong to all of us. A very interesting take on the crisis of value by Rob Horning , focusing on its dark side of also weakening worker’s bargaining power and well-being. The original article has links and ends with a more extensive analysis of Apple and the iPad as