I have tested it out with a document describing a learning network established in a community climate change adaptation initiative.  I I belong to a network of KM practioners working in development.  Today Today a resource was shared that I am marveling at.  It It helps us see traditional words and documents differently.  I

Last night I learned about different home heating options such as biomass, fossil fuels and geoexhange (moving heat from the ground into buildings).   It was a great evening of learning from an expert as well as my neighbours.   It was part of a monthly series of discussion nights I organize called Green Drinks. Green Drinks in my small town is about getting together over drinks, learning more about an environmental or social topic and stimulating conversation.   I try and find a resource person to kick off the discussion and provoke us to think beyond what we might know.

I will share what I learn in the New Year.  Happy For the next three weeks, I will remove the computer from my life.  This This experiment will help me relearn life as it was before email, Facebook and Google searching became my norms.  My My hope is to read books (off-line) and pay attention to all that is around me outside of my global connections facilitated through online mechanisms.  It

Networking is a medium to create relationships, learn about people and ultimately build trust.  These The one who got the job is he who spoke to the secretary in the waiting room and showed interest in learning about the company. -          Three people applied for a job teaching at a school.  What does small talk have to do with Knowledge Management? Everything according to  Canada’s national news .  

The two key words I think about in learning about buying a house are Trust and Knowledge Management. I am learning that trust is essential in making a large purchase decision.  The potential house I am buying my first house. 

In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? learning professional (or any learner, for that fact. What the heck IS a learning This month’s “Big Question” from Tony Karrer jolted me out of my sun-gardening-induced blogging lethargy to reply to this question: My friends and colleagues already nailed most of what I would write (see links below) , addressing the full range

After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented: was hoping that you would provide insight into the core skills and knowledge around communities and networks that learning professionals should have? What’s the 5 minute and 60 minute learning piece that all knowledge workers should have to go through so they will be better at this? It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. Nancy - I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic.

  It’s funny how we all associate Google with learning , rather than just s earching. But searching and learning are not one and the same. Consider After hours of related search I’m not learning much, relative to the time I put in. Why haven’t more people tried to create learning For specific information, I can see why: a single result for Oxfordian theory , for example, satisfies my needs pretty well. Not bad for a time investment of a few seconds.

This morning at the ungodly hour of 4:30 am PDT (GMT -7) I shared some of my ideas about connecting the formal learning in universities to the wider, networked world to a group of learning professionals at Tartu University, in Estonia. This was part of School - From Teaching Institution to Learning Space which took place April 02 - 03, 2009 at the Estonian University of Life Sciences conference centre (Kreutzwaldi 1A, Tartu), Estonia.  During the conference you could watch the conference online http://video.ut.ee . First, there is always the challenge of plopping

For a good number of years, both Knowledge Management and Learning have always been associated with one another and overlapping quite a bit. Plenty of organisations are eventually using terms like Learning & Knowledge to refer to that process of knowledge sharing and collaborating; and, in a way, with the emergence of social software within the corporate environment, I am sure we will be seeing both disciplines come together even more! To that extent, and in order to spark further conversations on the topic, while I get to finalise my thoughts on that very same subject, I thought I would share with you folks a couple of interesting links over here, rather quick, to perhaps come back to it at a later time.